Charles Dickens 
Mudfog and Other Sketches 

The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imaginable. Food is the one thing that unites us all …

[STARRED REVIEW] Readers will find themselves delighted, intrigued, and often moved by the love, pain, and wonder of these finely written drabbles thoroughly extraordinary. Kirkus The inter …

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Tired of the dull daily commute to the office, the tedious traipse to and from the school gates? Fed up with the seemingly endless shades of grey that decorate the canvas of modern life? Then the tim …

You can have a lot of laughs in ten years, which is why we have collected the very best of the amusing stories encountered by the readers of The Herald Diary column over the past decade. …

Following his hugely acclaimed TV come-back Comedy Vehicle, Lee finds himself in search of ideas for a new Edinburgh show. On a long walk across London, he endures a coffee shop humiliation involving …

Words are delicious and intoxicating… sometimes a bit too much so. As with other intoxicants, if you take them in excess you may end up getting carried away. Indulge in these eighty-nine tales of …

A laugh-out-loud comedy in the vein of Spike Milligan and Tom Sharpe. Irreverent and a little bit surreal this book is a damn good laugh.It’s 1932 and four men have been brutally murdered in the …

One man, one bike, two Mongoose cricket bats, one tropical disease, 16, 000 miles and a lot of dead kangaroos … Oli Broom loves cricket. So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set …

A good-humored guide to the many idiosyncrasies of boats and boaters, this offbeat guide explains, with the help of whimsical drawings, topics such as how to use the head, understanding marine dress …