100 Ghosts: A Gallery of Harmless Haunts by Doogie Howser
$19.99 NZD
Category: Humour
Cut two eyeholes into a bedsheet and Boo! You've got yourself a classic Halloween icon. But what happens if you tie the bedsheet in knots? What happens when you set it on fire, hang it from a clothesline, or put a llama underneath it? 100 Ghosts is a brilliantly simple artistic exploration of an icon as ...Show more
100 Hugs by Chris Riddell
$14.99 NZD
Category: Humour
100 Hugs is a gorgeous collection of illustrated hugs from Chris Riddell, Children's Laureate 2015-2017. This is the perfect gift for a loved one, or to cheer yourself up on a dark day when all you need is a hug. The one hundred beautiful and intricate illustrations from the three-times winner of the CI ...Show more
100 New Zealand Pop Culture Stories: From Billy T to Nuclear Free by Mitchell Hawkes
$26.99 NZD
Category: Humour
We all know about jandals, jaffas and hokey pokey ice cream, but how many of us also remember the underarm bowling incident, the Topp Twins, Telethon and Thingee's eye popping out on TV? This is Kiwiana and pop culture for the younger generation, those who grew up with at least one channel of TV (and th ...Show more
1,339 QI Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd; John Mitchinson; James Harkin
$28.99 NZD
Category: Humour
It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit. Wagner always wore pink silk underwear. Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. J. K Rowling has no middle name. The first computer mouse was made of wood. Followin ...Show more
1,342 Qi Facts to Leave You Flabbergasted by John Lloyd; James Harkin; John Mitchinson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
"Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place."--New York TimesThis book is bursting with mindboggling morsels of trivia - informative, hilarious, sometimes arcane or utterly useless, but always entertaining. Every fact in this magnificent little ...Show more
1411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways by John Lloyd
$28.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. All new facts! Prepare to be knocked sideways...Orchids can get jetlag. Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie. Lady ...Show more
50 Shades of Key :The Unofficial John Key Joke Book by Paul Little
$14.99 NZD
Category: Humour
In the satirical tradition of Take Me to Your Leaders and The Muldoon Annual Joke Book comes 50 Shades of Key, a hilarious collection of 36 photos with wicked captions, plus a bunch of jokes we found lying around and threw in at the last minute.
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$37.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi : Words We Pinched from Other Languages by Chloe Rhodes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
A handy guide to the meanings and origins of the many foreign phrases we use every day. English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist - we use these foreign words every day without t ...Show more
A Few Well-Frozen Worms by Ronnie Barker
$27.99 NZD
Category: Humour
With a fondness for spoonerisms and double entendres, Ronnie Barker is one of the nation's greatest comics. Gathered together in this second 'best of' volume is a cocktail of his sketches and monologues from every strand of his long and brilliant career.