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In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French. Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English, Miles Kington set himself a similar challenge. He carried it off with panache. As Max Harrison...

Audiobook Included! Learn English laughing! With "Extremely Funny Stories" by Zac Eaton you will learn English and get as up-close as you can to the famous ironic, black English humour. Warning: "Extremely Funny Stories" can be addictive! The running Series of Stories is...

Audiobook Included!Learn English laughing! With "Extremely Funny Stories" by Zac Eaton you will learn English and get as up-close as you can to the famous ironic, black English humour. Warning: "Extremely Funny Stories" can be addictive! The running Series of Stories is a "must-have" for every...

If you are looking for entertainment, humour and wit, then this is the book for you. The short stories are scintillating, funny and diverse: satires on the recent 2012 Olympic Games and Bollywood, amusing thoughts on Australia, a strange language Virus, a chocolate junkie and childhood. If you don't...

In his breakaway bestseller 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transformed the agony of defeated sticks into the thrill of a new creation, with a slap of good humour that kept readers chuckling all the way through the book. Now, with the publication of Fabulous Fabrications...

The traditional rivalries run deep between Glasgow's industry-blighted East End and the leafy suburban academia of the West End. The typical West Ender viewpoint is that the East End is full of workshy junkies and your average East Enders knows fine that the West End is populated by jumped-up snobs,...

Less did the Maxwells' know that a simple weekend would turn so disastrous for them, and would end up giving the narrator an idea for his next unfunny story. Sounds strange? It surely is, just as the story proceeds. Go through a short history of how Maxwells' climbed the leadersof success. then how...

Allan Morrison has produced another Xmas cracker with 'See you Jimmy!' The Humour, The People and the Patter o' The Clyde Shipyards, a natural follow-up to the adventures of Big Aggie MacDonald, the Glasgow tramcar clippie in 'Cummoangetaff!'. Featuring the sorts of high-jinks and capers as made famous...

A collection of essays and aphorisms about Scottish Calvinism. This is Scottish literary humour at its finest. 'A work of contemporary shamanism, with all the bluff, poetry, deranged humour, sleight-of-hand and real magic that implies.' Don Paterson. This is the first (and maybe the last) self-help...

This is an 80 page ebook full of cool & funny pictures with no long written jokes. There are pictures on almost anything that are both funny and controversial.

These are humourous, ficticious stories exploring the origins and explanations of some well known nursery rhymes. For example, you'll discover why Humpty Dumpty really sat on the wall, how "Goosey Goosey" Gander got his name and why Miss Muffet really ran away. But they are not what you'd...

Earnshaw, the Tiger Tabby Kitten, was born into dereliction and deprivation in Salford; cast into the dark, oily waters of the Docks by a vicious Human but rescued by a kindly passer-by. Confined to a shelter for unwanted Cats, the ante-room for euthanasia, he is rescued once more, adopted by a family...

Les nouvelles aventures de la ceinture noire de l'humour, catégorie poids lourd ! Avec un yéti à la maison, il en faut de la souplesse d’esprit ! Et le petit Arthur doit faire de sacrées contorsions pour faire accepter à papa que son titanesque pote se soit servi de la voiture comme...

Socrates left no philosophical writings himself, but luckily he had a dog called Ted who faithfully learnt and interpreted his sayings. Through Ted and his canine friends, and with reference to famous philosophers, readers learn how dogs interpret the world. In the book, the canine characters...