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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe

By Bryson, Bill

Time Flies

By Bill Cosby

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

By Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

I Love You

By Edward Monkton

Car Fever: The car bore's essential companion

By James May

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again

By P. J. O'Rourke

Happy Half Hours

By A.A. Milne

If You'd Just Let Me Finish

By Jeremy Clarkson

70s Dinner Party: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly of Retro Food

By Anna Pallai

The World According to Groucho Marx

By Groucho Marx

Further Under the Duvet

By Marian Keyes

Friends Like These

By Wallace, Danny

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating

By Stephen Potter

Clarkson on Cars

By Clarkson, Jeremy

Tragically I Was An Only Twin

By Cook, Peter

Cycling: The Craze of the Hour

By Various Authors

Start the Car: The World According to Bumble

By David Lloyd

Bossypants

By Fey, Tina, Tina Fey

Quietly Hostile

By Samantha Irby

Scorn with Added Vitriol: New Edition:A Bucketful of Discourtesy, Disparagement, Invective, Ridicule, Impudence, Contumely, Derision, Hate, Affront, Disdain, Bile, Taunts, Curses And Jibes

By Parris, Matthew

Notes from a Small Island

By Bill Bryson

Off You Go: Away from home and loving it. Sort of.

By Maeve Higgins

The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G.Wodehouse - A Conducted Tour (Oxford paperbacks)

By Muir, Frank

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

By Trevor Noah

Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

By Tim Allen

I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

By Nora Ephron

Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot

By Davies, Andrew

Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy

By Chas Newkey-Burden, Julie Burchill

Down the Road and Round the Bend

By Roy Noble, OBE