24 Humour
329 pages illustrated with delightful line drawings and appendix: The Way of All Flesh: What Happens to Bodies After Death. $22 NOW £6
74759 PETER SELLERS AND FRIENDS CD by Peter
Sellers and the Goons The best of Peter Sellers including Balham-Gateway to the South, Party Political Speech, All the Things You Are, We Need the Money and Suddenly It’s Folk
Song, beginning with the Trumpet Volunteer. From the original LP recorded 1957, the music is directed by Ron Goodwin. Also on this 64 minute CD are the Goons - Unchained Melodies recorded in 1955-57. Includes the glorious the Ying Tong Song and I Love You (Milligan), Bloodnok’s Rock and Roll Call (Carbone), Bluebottle Blues, Walking Backwards for Christmas, Whistle Your Cares Away and A Russian Love Song among the seven tracks. CD. ONLY £5
73348 DO-IT-YOURSELF BRAIN SURGERY: And Other
Implausibly Titled Books by Joel Rickett
The Diagram Prize was first created at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1978 and is still today awarded annually by The Bookseller magazine for that year’s published book with the oddest title. In the intervening 35 years the Diagram has been bestowed more than a few worthy
champions including Bombproof Your Horse (2004), The Joy of Chickens (1980), How to Avoid Huge Ships (1992), The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (2002), Living With Crazy Buttocks (2003) and last year’s Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop. Here, collected for the first time are the 50 best Diagram entries, presented complete with their equally outlandish jackets. 96pp, colour.
£8 NOW £2
73609 COMIC BOOK COVERS by Sandra Forty 82 full page colour plates of comic book covers like Batman, Dennis the Menace, The Green Mask, Jackie Robinson, Jo-Jo Congo King, Planet Comics, Slave Girl Comics, Sweethearts, Wonder Woman, X-Men, Women in Love, Western Thrillers and more, all in glorious colour. Semi-clad busty females in danger, to monster fantasies and all-negro comics, here is the ‘golden age’ of the comic book. Captain America and the Green Lantern quickly made previous heroes of crime, cowboy and romance genres look dated. Colour. ONLY £4
73640 COULD DO BETTER by Norman McGreevy
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More mangled attempts to get to grips with our mother tongue from school children who have struggled with the pitfalls of the English language. Full of hilarious howlers on religion, history and the rest, surreal spelling errors, grammatical catastrophes and cringeworthy malapropisms. A cyclone is a man riding a bicycle. A fissure is a man who sells fish. France was torn apart by noble fractions. Cartoons, 150pp in paperback. £5.99 NOW £2.50
75042
MICHAEL HILL: Set of Two by
Michael Hill Buy both
paperbacks and save more. £17.98 NOW £3.75
74587 A LITTLE LOCAL DIFFICULTY: A
Novel of the Sixties by Michael Hill A young and inexperienced man joins Metro TV, a London-based company, to work on a successful daily programme which comments critically and humorously on current events. The staff of young men and women are into sex and booze. The Head of Programmes, an elderly but powerful woman, is into booze and amnesia. The programme’s main target is the boring, conventional Home Secretary. The Editor enlists the services of a beautiful call-girl, the daughter as it happens of the Metro Chairman. Her activities bring her to the notice of the Security Services, a big national newspaper and Private Eye. In a farcical sequence of events the novel looks at feminism, the call-girl racket, political cronyism, TV opportunism and general amorality and features such real characters as Malcolm Muggeridge. With illustrations by Trog, 206pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3
74586 DUTY FREE: Fleet Air Arm Days by Michael Hill
By the author of A Little Local Difficulty code 74587, here is a Lucky Jim going to war. Flying Seafires (Naval Spitfires) on D-Day, and some 25 flights in the 1944 Normandy Battles, then in aircraft carriers on convoys to Russia and finally flying Seafires with the Pacific Fleet in Australia, Michael Hill kept a detailed diary of the fortunes and often misfortunes of a Fleet Air Arm pilot in World War Two. The Royal Navy, Oxford and the BBC all survived the author who went on to live a reasonably quiet life in Deal on the Kentish coast. Accurate, inspired and amusing, Hill accounts for what it was like to serve in The Branch of the Royal Navy of which there are about 20 which flew from aircraft carriers and RN Air Stations. It is a true account of wartime life for the ‘A’ Boys and is an incredibly evocative narrative on the dangers and drama of Russian Convoys. 214pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3
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70753 HANCOCK’S HALF HOUR: The Best of Tony
Hancock: 2 CDs by Tony Hancock
The Wild Man of the Woods, A Sunday Afternoon at Home and The East Cheam Drama Festival are the three tracks on the first CD
with the cast of Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. CD number two comprises The Publicity Photograph and The Secret Life of Antony Hancock with the same cast as above, followed by The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham with a cast including June Whitfield, Clive Dunn, Derek Gyler and Frank Thornton. All written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton, playing times 77.29 and 78.02 minutes respectively on two CDs. Fantastic Bibliophile bargain price.
ONLY £7
73861 THE IDLER ISSUE 39: Lie Back and Protest by Tom Hodgkinson
The Idler is a magazine that ‘celebrates freedom, fun and the fine art of doing nothing’. It is packed with features, stories, conversations and views from the sofa, philosophising and reflecting on the whole notion of protest. Corinne Maier interviews three French filmmakers producing anti-work movies. Jay Griffiths writes on missionaries. John Nicholson celebrates paradise and the magazine asks if there is any point in going to university, while Penny Rimbaud reveals the meaning of life. There are articles on the practical side of idling and advice on tree-house-building and beer- brewing and much more. 224 paperback pages. Cartoons and photos. £10.99 NOW £3
64454 GREAT IRISH
DRINKING STORIES edited by Peter Haining Drinking contests have been regular events in Ireland and the honour of a clan was very much at stake on these occasions as the jugs of ale were quaffed by the contestants, each roared on by their inebriated supporters. This is a round of stories that have the wit, imagination and appetite for life that you will find in any Irish pub. From James Joyce,
Flann O’Brien, Brendan Behan, Shane MacGowan, Malachy McCourt, Patrick Kavanagh, Sean O’Casey to Roddy Doyle, all have written about drinking and its effects, the stuff of life and sometimes the troubling consequences. Irish revelries include wakes and weddings, city bars and country pubs, the craic and the ceilidh in a round of stories that celebrate drink and drinking and have been the inspiration for Ireland’s other great export, her writers. Pick up the poteen, sit back and enjoy this bad behaviour! 334pp in softback. £9.99 NOW £3.50
73862 YOU CAN STICK IT! by P. K. Munroe If you are fed up to the teeth with notices telling you to watch out, then you will be glad of the opportunity to stick these notices anywhere that you deem appropriate. There are spoof Health and Safety messages, insulting gift tags, and stickers for the fridge, cash machines, public transport, books, DVDs and even your houseplants. So, stick it! Umpteen pages 30cm by 21cm in colour. £12.99 NOW £3
74085 WRINKLIES’ WIT AND WISDOM: Humorous Quotes About Getting On a Bit by Rosemarie Jarski
Collapsing the old stereotypes of knitting grannies and doddering grandpas, senior citizens are now living life to the full, taking on new challenges and showing us all how to grow old disgracefully. Regrets, Joan Bakewell says, ‘I rather regret I haven’t taken more drugs. Is it too late, at 70, to try cocaine? Would it be dangerous or interesting?’ Keith Waterhouse, the Simpsons, Welsh proverbs, John Mortimer, Tom Baker, Stephen Fry, Lee Marvin, David Letterman, David Bailey, Ozzy Osborne to Barbara Cartland all have their say in these witty one liners. 272pp. £9.99 NOW £3
74086 WRINKLIES’ BEDSIDE COMPANION by Mike Haskins and Clive Wichelow Laugh along with the life, the wrinklyverse and everything, how to look good, false memory syndrome, why sex is overrated, celebrity bed companions, things you can count to help you get off to sleep, bedside essentials, opening lines of novels wrinklies can identify with, health, diet and exercise, attitude, utterances to philosophical wrinklies, how to live cheaply, dealing with night-time emergencies, bedtime snacks, and a wrinklies’ guide to the modern world and much more. 192pp. £9.99 NOW £4
74087 WRINKLIES JOKE BOOK: The Laughter Lines More Jokes, Quotes and Funny Stories for the Golden Generation
by Mike Haskins and Clive Whichelow Choc-à-bloc with anecdotes, stories, proverbs, and observations all relating to the ‘elder generation’. There are quotes from the likes of Stephen Fry, Jo Brand, George Burns, Harry Hill, Milton Berle and the cast of Have I Got News For You as well as dozens of other witty wordsmiths. 192 pages. £9.99 NOW £3
74094 GILES THE COLLECTION 2013 by John Field
Grandma, father, mother, Vera, children and pets populate these cartoons which make you smile on several levels. Hoover up quirky little snippets hidden in plain view from Giles, the ‘Spreader of Happiness’. More than a daily dose, here is a whole year’s worth of mirth in a family album of one of Britain’s most bewildering families. Giles’s created family seems to encapsulate all the chaos and turbulence since it first appeared on 5th August 1945. With family tree on the back cover, cartoons ranging from the 50s to the 90s. Landscape softback. £7.99 NOW £4
74321 ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES by Graham McCann
Created by the legendary comedy writer John Sullivan, Only Fools and Horses follows the misadventures of Del Boy Trotter, his gormless younger brother Rodney and a collection of their loveable but shady friends as they attempt to get rich quick through dodgy deals and a ridiculous array of knock-off goods. Something about the cast of very British misfits won the heart of the nation and in the 30 years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House, the comedy show has won countless awards and is one of Britain’s best loved sitcoms. First screened in September 1981 on BBC1 and at its height over a third of the British population, 24.3 million people, watched the final instalment. The full inside story, 344pp, colour. £20 NOW £6
74348 TOMMY COOPER
JOKE BOOK by John Fisher Tommy Cooper died the most visible of deaths live on television on the stage of Her Majesty’s Theatre. Since his death he has acquired the status of folk hero and new generations have caught up with his comedy magic. Reproducing images of his typewritten scripts like ‘more one-
liners’ from January 1959 here is a small sampling - ‘She’s on a diet of coconuts and bananas. She hasn’t lost any weight but boy, can she climb trees?’ We meet the wife, pay homage to Max Miller, go down memory lane with Tommy, read his heckler stoppers, his pub tales, philosophical, stating the obvious, Tommy the boxer, more one-liners and Cooper classics. 166 pages. £9.99 NOW £4
74364 CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM: A Miscellany of Curious Facts: Bizarre Beliefs and Scandalous Gossip from Ancient Greece
and Rome by Philip Matyszak Xenophon did it. Pliny did it. In fact many ancient writers did it - that is, they collected lively anecdotes and after-dinner jokes. This collection includes humorous quips by the emperor Augustus and wry observations by the philosopher Socrates. There are stories of ghastly crimes, incredible journeys, and some bizarre military mishaps, together with dozens of lists covering unusual topics - such as Romans who lived to be 100, or odd deities like Sterculinus, the god of manure spreading. 192 pages, 109 illus. £9.99 NOW £3.50
71640 BEST OF PUNCH CARTOONS: 2000 Humour Classics
introduced by Helen Walasek
A very British institution for over 160 years, Punch was the world’s most celebrated magazine of humour and satire, imitated, parodied and pirated but never bettered. Like tasty plums in a pudding, here are witty cartoons from the pens of the great Leech, du Maurier, Phil May, H. M. Bateman, Pont, E. H. Shepard, Fougasse, Emett, Anton, Hoffnung, ffolkes, Thelwell, Searle, Heath, and out great friends Tony Husband and Tony Reeve. Arranged by eras 1841-1913, Through the Wars, the 60s and 70s to the 80s and Beyond covering the magazine’s most celebrated and zany themes, caricatures, the Great Exhibition of 1851, early motoring, the space race, new technology, holidays, mind doctors and Lemmings from P. G. Wodehouse to Alan Coren. First time discounted. 608 large glamorous pages, 10" x 11½”. £30 NOW £16
72380 CELEBRITY FACE-
OFF: The Royal Family A book of 12 masks of Princess Anne, Fergie, Andrew, Harry, Edward, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (William and Kate), Prince Charles and Camilla, our patron and Royal Warrant granter the lovely Prince Philip and the Queen wearing a beautiful tiara but rather a hacked off expression. Best
of all is the corgi on the last page! The high resolution regal masks are ready to push out from the page, pop out the eyes and loop through your own elastic - very easy to assemble. Unofficial and unauthorised softback. £14.99 NOW £2.50
72520 DISHONOURABLE INSULTS compiled by Greg Knight, M.P.
Political invective is not what it was, laments the editor of this indiscreet collection. Unparliamentary language includes accusing someone of being a liar, or the use of offensive expressions. Winston Churchill got round the former problem by saying the liar was guilty of a “terminological inexactitude” while Sir Nicholas Fairbairn just invented a few insulting words, calling his female colleagues “cagmags and scrub heaps”. Michael Heseltine was a great parliamentary performer who knew all the tricks of the trade. 271pp. £14.99 NOW £3
72754 AN A-Z OF HELLRAISERS: A
Comprehensive Compendium of Outrageous Insobriety by Robert Sellers
W.C. Fields famously lived up to his initials from the balcony of a Mexican hotel by relieving himself over the brass band that were tuning up below. From Winston Churchill to Shane MacGowan, George Best to Paul Gascoigne,
Peter O’Toole to Errol Flynn, here are the unforgettable and utterly hilarious tales of celebrity (over 100 of them) misbehaviour. Photos, 420pp. £20 NOW £3
73050 RALPH STEADMAN BOOK OF DOGS written and illustrated by Ralph Steadman With his trademark ‘stretched and blotted’ style and his perceptive eye, here is Steadman again, using his
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FINAL COPIES FROM DERIC’S OWN STOCK 10405 CAT WHO CAME IN
FROM THE COLD by Deric Longden
Deric’s gentle humour re-emerges in this, his third book. The Cat of the title got his name Thermal soon after he had been thawed out and given an old thermal vest on entering the Longden world. The kitten slipped easily into Deric and his new wife Aileen’s lives, purrfectly ignorant of the adventures he may get into.
Aileen being Aileen, he was one day bound to get shut in the washing machine or the refrigerator even before he swallowed her contact lenses soaking in the saucer overnight! His best friend is a sultana, and the traumatic experience they shared when both were flattened by a carelessly dropped Yellow Pages will have you quivering with laughter. Engaging line illus. 189pp.
FULL PRICE £13.99
66076 I’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Deric Longden
Married to my (Annie’s) mum, the writer Aileen Armitage, Deric made the most momentous decision of his life and moved to a foreign country - Huddersfield. Deric finds adventure everywhere and anywhere, even between the kitchen and the bathroom. And try going shopping
with him! The demands of a house full of cats, the need to get the gas cooker repaired, the problem of opening a milk carton and memories stirred to life by sorting through old clothes in the wardrobe. The life of Deric continues in his own inimitable and infectiously humorous style. Paperback. 252pp. Full price as from Deric’s last remaining stock. ONLY £6.99
74925 PLAY ON WORDS by Deric Longden Ever since Dame Thora Hird breathed life into the role of Deric Longden’s mother Annie in Wide Eyed and Legless, she had been on an on at him to write a play based on the sequel Lost for Words. “And don’t hang about. I’m 83, you know.” Deric’s life never runs in straight lines - apart from his duties
as a visual guide dog to his blind wife, the writer Aileen Armitage (our Annie’s mum!) he is at the beck and call of 3½ cats, a somewhat bemused vole and a tap-dancing squirrel. He also had a book to finish, so the screenplay had to take a back seat for the time being. But Dame Thora did not give up. “Come on lad, get a move on. I’m 85, you know.” By the time she was 86, Deric had finished the script and in January 1999, Lost for Words was finally televised. This is his book of his own life which was turned into the film. 255 pages. £12.99 NOW £8
42192 THE FUNNY THING
IS ... CD by Deric Longden Bestselling author and winner of the Emmy for Lost For Words starring Dame Thora Hird (who won the Best Actress BAFTA), here is a chance to hear a collection of Deric’s funny stories all voiced by Deric. Includes ‘The
Nativity’, ‘Slugs’, ‘Thermal’ and many other amusing and memorable tales. Publishing News said, ‘Deric Longden gives some great comic musings on love, life and living - he is one of the select brand of writers who can read their own work well, drawing out the warmth and humour.’ He is also of course the author of Diana’s Story and Wide Eyed and Legless, and was our very own Annie’s stepfather. ONLY £9
wicked pen to capture the fierce, furious, whimsical, wistful world of the dog. A lifetime lover of canines, here he shows us dogs on furniture, dogs of fashion, wine dogs, fantastical crossbreeds and even insects that live on dogs. You will either love or loathe the Saloon Bar Dog, the Antisocial Blot Dog, the Buddhist Dogs Searching for Happiness, the Dog Baby Substitute and Decibelle the Noisy Mongrel. 96 unnumbered pages 21.5cm x 22cm in colour and b/w. £12.99 NOW £4.50
73083 HAMMER AND TICKLE: A Cultural History of Communism by Ben Lewis
‘What is colder in Romania than the cold water? The hot water’. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries - surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labour, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda - turned joke-telling into an art form, using it as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. 354 paperback pages, cartoons in b/w and colour, caricatures, photos and oral transcripts.
$15.95 NOW £2.50
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