Humour & Riddles

'I have struck a city- a real city - and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages,' so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city',...

Describing the capital variously as a city of lovers, gastronomy, fashion and filth, myriad quotations - sometimes poetic, sometimes humorous and always fizzing with insight - are collected here.Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted,...

'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,' said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a 'riddle', a 'cesspool' and a 'modern Babylon', and both...

This compact gift book is packed full of witty, scandalous and entertaining quotations about this famous city from the Middle Ages to the current decade.Oxford is one of the world's great cities - a source of inspiration to generations of poets,...

How should a motorist converse with the police? Should you switch off your headlights when another car approaches? What parts of the engine can you fix with a sheet of emery paper, insulating tape and copper wire?The 1920s heralded the age of motoring...

Welcome to more tongue-in-cheek tales about eccentricity and endeavour from the obscurest parts of history that teach us things we never knew about the present.This time we learn about the Lille perfume bombing, the Auschwitz volunteer, the...

Obsessed With Marvel packs 2,500 trivia questions on the Marvel Universe comic books in a single volume, illustrated with some of the most memorable comic artwork in the archives. This new edition includes 300 new questions taken from the most...

A celebration of the world's worst video games from the hugely popular YouTuber Ashens In Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, Stuart Ashen has created a collection of hilarious and damning reviews of some of the most bizarre, frustrating,...

Wallace and his faithful canine companion, Gromit in their second newspaper comic collection.Read by over 2.5 million readers every day, the Wallace and Gromit comic strip, now in its 4th year, appears daily in The Sun, the UK's best selling national...

Entertain your friends and family with sushi that looks as fantastic as it tastes! As the world's appetite for Japanese sushi continues to skyrocket, the Sushi Art Cookbook introduces readers to the art of creating sushi that looks as...

From a psychologist and stand-up comedian comes a practical, yet laugh-out-loud guide to embracing humor to reduce stress and live a happier, fuller life.Dr. Brian King got a degree in psychology before becoming a world-touring comic and the host of...

First (authorised) publication (in any language) of a wildly popular, anonymously written serial novel that started life as a blog during the US invasion of IraqPopulated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans - as well...

"The Gang" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphiaattempts their most ill-conceived, get-rich quick scheme yet:publishing a "self-help book". In their own inimitablevoices, Charlie, Mac, Dennis, Sweet Dee, and Frank weighin on important topics like...

Built-in audience eager for more content: The author's YouTube channel, MEPearlA, has 124,000 subscribers, with some videos amassing hundreds of thousands of views. The author will tap into this built-in, adoring audience to drive sales of her book,...

From AA Grapevine, inspiring stories about how getting sober can lead to a rich, rewarding life.Fun in Sobriety features 50-plus inspiring stories by members of Alcoholics Anonymous about the many ways they've learned to have a good time. Getting sober...

Lessons from History is a joyful romp through the obscurest parts of the past. The annals have been scoured for overlooked figures and events that nonetheless made an impact, and within these pages they are brought hilariously and often poignantly back...

As Daniel Hardcastle careers towards thirty, he looks back on what has really made him happy in life: the friends, the romances...the video games. Told through encounters with the most remarkable - and the most mind-boggling - games of the last...

This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. Trojan Women is a wildly imaginative collaboration between the visual artist...

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When Stephan Orth lands in China, he knows it's his last visit, having lied about his job as a journalist to get into the country. So, he makes the most of it, couch-surfing with locals instead of hitting the nearest hotel. Starting in Macau - a former...