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Grumpy Old Wit: The greatest collection of grumpy wit ever assembled from Socrates to Meldrew

By Jarski, Rosemarie

Bad Language

By Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Peter Trudgill, Lars-Gunnar Anderson

Birdwatchingwatching: One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds

By Alex Horne

I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Inadvertent Bloopers, andOther Linguistic Slip-Ups

By Sharon Nichols

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words

By Sanders, Ella Frances

Have You Eaten Grandma?

By Gyles Brandreth

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

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner

By Alex Games

The Father, the Son and the Ghostly Hole: Confessions from a guilt-edged life

By Mcgrath, Rory

Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

By Francis Grose, Max Harris

How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

By Mikes, George

Jackspeak: A guide to British Naval slang & usage

By Rick Jolly

Big Book of Crosswords 3: 300 quick crossword puzzles (Collins Crosswords)

By Collins Puzzles

Growing Old Disgracefully: How to upset and perplex your children with increasingly erratic and unreasonable behaviour

By Candappa, Rohan

Street Italian 2: The Best of Naughty Italian

By David Burke

The Sunday Times Concise Crossword Book 4

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

By Steven Pinker

Would You Rather Randoms: A collection of hilarious hypothetical questions

By Clint Hammerstrike

Pimp Your Vocab

By Lucy Tobin

Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy

By Chas Newkey-Burden, Julie Burchill

Nightmare

By Piers Anthony

Centaur Aisle

By Piers Anthony

A Spell for Chameleon

By Piers Anthony

Golem in the Gears

By Piers Anthony

Superpoop Needs a Number Two

By Sam Harper, Chris Jevons

Say Cheese: The Original Collection of Cheese Jokes

By Wesley Dale, Tutu Tyutyunnik

Silly Signs

By Arcturus Publishing

I Wish I Hadn't Said That: Over 3,000 Famous Foot-in-Mouth Moments

By Geoff Tibballs

Urban Dictionary: Freshest Street Slang Defined

By urbandictionary.com, Aaron Peckham

The Times Cryptic Crossword Book 8: 80 world-famous crossword puzzles (The Times Crosswords)

By The Times Mind Games