Twitterature - The Worlds Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter (Popular Penguin) by Alexander Aciman
19.95 NZD
Category: Humour
From "Oedipus": Party in Thebes!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF. "From Paradise Lost": OH My God I'm in Hell. Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack ...Show more
The Joys of Engrish by Steven Caires
22.00 NZD
25.00 (12% off)
Category: Humour
Welcome to the world of Engrish. Now a cultural phenomenon that has taken the world by storm, Engrish consists of curious misspellings, doubtful abbreviations and jarring word-for-word translations. Fancy a Pocari Sweat soft drink or a Collon chocolate bar? Or perhaps you need some of that Horny face cr ...Show more
Wayne in a Manger by Gervase Phinn
28.00 NZD
Category: Humour
A Wayne in a Manger includes some wonderfully funny and touching nativity play anecdotes, including children forgetting their lines, ad-libbing, falling of the stage, picking their noses and showing their knickers. One hilarious anecdote tells of an innkeeper who generously says there's plenty of room ...Show more
The Naked Jape by Jimmy Carr
28.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Is Man the only animal that laughs? Why are clowns so scary? Do jokes make children more intelligent? Are men funnier than women? Can God take a joke? What's brown and sticky? Top comedian Jimmy Carr and fellow joke-lover Lucy Greeves tour the strange and wonderful world of jokes - to find out what's fu ...Show more
The Meaning of Tingo and other estraordinary words from around the world by Adam Jacot de Boinod
27.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means 'to take off your clothes in order to dance'? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or that the Dutch word for skimming stones is plimpplamppletteren? Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 154 languages, th ...Show more
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganiyika by Giles Foden
20.00 NZD
Category: Humour
'It's the duty of the Royal Navy to engage the enemy wherever she is afloat' is the order of the day, but their lordships would never have imagined what they would be letting themselves into when they sent Lt. Spicer Simson and his ragtag expedition to sink three German Steamers on Lake Tanganyika in ce ...Show more
That's Bollocks! (HB) by Albert Jack
39.95 NZD
Category: Humour
Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour. More than just a collection of urban legends, this is also a detective story. Exploring the real events behind conspiracy theories, the exaggerations of ...Show more
Shoot the Puppy by Tony Thorne
35.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Are you a bobo or a wombat? Have you ever been tempted to open the kimono or kick dead whales up the beach? This title guides the reader through the contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about the contemporary world a ...Show more
The Little Book of Crap by Kaz Cooke
7.95 NZD
Category: Humour
The Little Book of Crap, written in conjunction with the mysterious Simon Weazelpantz, is the inevitable follow-up to Kaz Cooke's hilarious spoof on tiny books of potted wisdom, The Little Book of Stress. It offers thoughts for the reader to ponder that range from the downright woolly "A lewd cuckoo gat ...Show more
Code of the Woosters (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse
26.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Jeeves & Wooster
A Jeeves and Wooster novel When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow cr ...Show more
Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse
24.95 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Blandings Castle Ser.
This is a Blandings novel. "The Empress of Blandings", prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared. Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from Galahad Threepwood (who is writing memoirs so scandalous they will rock the aristo ...Show more
Just Like Dad Says: A Book of Dad's Wit by Geoff Tibballs
32.99 NZD
Category: Humour
'I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood' Homer Simpson Fathers come in many guises - wise or silly, strict or kind. They can make you laugh and they can make you cringe. They can drive you home and they can drive you mad ...In Just Like Dad Says, wise and witty words from the lies of ...Show more