Dick Deadeye by Ronald Searle; Jeremy Hornsby; Leo Rost; Derek Birdsall (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: good-very good
Hilaire Belloc - Complete Verse by Hilaire Belloc
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Introduces the distinctly surreal world of Henry King, who perished through his 'chief defect' of chewing little bits of string; of dishonest Matilda whose dreadful lies led her to death by burning; and, of Godolphin Horne who 'held the human race in scorn' and ended as the boy 'who blacks the boots at ...Show more
This Book is the Longest Sentence ever Written and then Published by Dave Cowen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus - All The Words, Volume 2 by Graham Chapman; Terry Gilliam; Eric Idle; Terry Jones; Terry Gillian; Terry Jones
$16.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Monty Python's Flying Circus Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes. Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appeara ...Show more
Born Brilliant - The Life of Kenneth Williams by Christopher Stevens
$14.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles. Born Brilliant will include much previously unseen material from Williams's candid daily journal and ...Show more
Partingtime Hall by James Fenton; John Fuller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Beyond the Fringe ... and Beyond - A Critical Biography of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore by Ronald Bergan
$18.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
On 22 August 1960, four university graduates put on 'a little amateur revue' for the Edinburgh Festival and between them changed the face of British comedy for ever. They were Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. Ronald Bergan's four-part biography focuses a critical eye on the st ...Show more
The Lure of the Limerick - An Uninhibited History by William S Baring-Gould
$25.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
Manners for Millionaires by Brummell & Beau
$8.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
Manners for Millionaires answers the cry for instruction and guidance from the aspiring rich: 'our readers as still belong to the Pauper, Practically Pauper and Comparatively Pauper strata of society - those, we mean, with less than GBP5000 a year and fewer than seventeen spare bedrooms - will natur ...Show more
Talk to the Hand - The utter bloody rudeness of everyday life (or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door) by LYNNE TRUSS
$6.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Out of Print 26/08/08 When did the world get to be so rude? How did society become so unsociable? Taking on the boorish behaviour that is a point of pride for some, this book is a rallying cry for courtesy. From the author of the bestselling punctuation book Eats Shoots and Leaves ($23.99, now available ...Show more
Whim Wham's New Zealand: The Best of Whim Wham 1937-1988 by Allen Curnow
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Whim Wham was the pen-name of the major New Zealand poet Allen Curnow. His highly entertaining verses, commencing in the Christchurch Press in 1937 and in the New Zealand Herald from 1951, voiced the awkward questions so many New Zealanders wanted to ask. Whim Wham became a Saturday institution and requ ...Show more