Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: and Other Rules to Live By by David Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Humour
The Sunday Times bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse, was published back in 2014 and it must have really made people think. Because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP to Brexit, from horse lasagne to fatbergs, from big society to food banks. The only possible way to cheer up in 2 ...Show more
Choose Your Own Apocalypse With Kim Jong-un & Friends by Rob Sears
$24.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YOU decide how humanity perishes. Will we be turned to grey goo by Elon Musk's nanobots? Driven collective ...Show more
Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans - sex, power and money. 'A genuinely hilarious explanation of the science of sex.' FRANKIE BOYLE Following her hit book Animal, Sara Pascoe decides to confront her fear of the male libido, and turns her att ...Show more
Politics Now: The Best of David Rowe by David Rowe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Humour
A riveting collection from Australia's finest and most instantly recognisable political cartoonist. This first and long-awaited collection throws us into the grotesque, malformed, and subterranean world that is Rowe's vision of politics now. Enter at your own risk. Featuring all the madness and downrigh ...Show more
I'm a Joke and So Are You - A Comedian's Take on What Makes Us Human by Robin Ince
$22.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Evening Standard's the Best Comedy Books of the Year Skinny's Book of the Year What better way to understand ourselves than through the eyes of comedians - those who professionally examine our quirks on stage daily? Reviews for I'm a Joke and So Are You: 'Joyfully entertaining.' - Observer 'Funny, ho ...Show more
488 Rules for Life - The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
RICHARD GLOVER: ''You won’t agree with all her rules – I, for one, am a great believer in the word “pash” – but there is a good laugh, and a lively argument, to be had on every page.'' 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Applying truth and wit to ...Show more
No Apologies Women in Comedy Claiming their Space, Finding their Voices and Telling their Stories by Joanne Brookfield
$29.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Everyone says the future is female, but that change is happening right now. Across the planet, women's voices are being heard like never before... Joanne Brookfield has spent two decades working in the world of comedy, as both a journalist and a stand-up comedian. Over coffee, wine, laughter and tears, ...Show more
Little Me - My Life from A-Z by Matt Lucas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Humour
This is the story of little me, from pudgy, awkward child to pudgy, slightly less awkward adult - via school musicals, adolescent angst, stand-up,Shooting Stars,Little Britain,Doctor Who, love, loss, wigs and giant pink babygros. And, in case your attention span is as short as mine, it comes in a handy ...Show more
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', Yes Please is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the life and mind of acclaimed actress, writer and comedian Amy Poehler. Yes Please finds Amy riffing on everything from sex and love to motherhood, famil ...Show more
2,024 QI Facts to Stop You in Your Tracks by John Lloyd; James Harkin; Anne Miller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television. Here creator John Lloyd and QI elves James Harkin and Anne Miller bring together 2,024 brain-tickling brand new facts to stop you in your tracks... Humans glow in the dark. The Pope drives a blue Ford Focus. One of the moons of Uranus is called Ma ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
A Pleasure to Be Here: The Best of Clarke and Dawe 1989-2017 by John Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Humour
A hilarious collection of interviews discussing the highs and lows in the public and political life of Australia over the past three decades. Drawn from John Clarke's and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts, these timelessly funny scripts will delight readers as they revisit the scandals and stuff-ups of our ...Show more