Humour

Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health.

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Whatever word you'd care to apply to 2022, no one can deny it's been eventful.

'A smart, sly and satisfying book'PANDORA SYKES'A crafty new locked-room thriller of adultery and disaster'WASHINGTON POST'An energizing reminder of what the novel can do'REBECCA WAITA masterful novel - blistering in suspense and humour - about marriage, infidelity, love, and a blazing hotel room .

On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself.

Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling.

'It's a great missing piece of the jigsaw - people go on endlessly about Python and Peter Cook, which is all well and good but there's basically this great corpus of work stretching for decades - and consistently good .

Everything you always wanted to know about the more curious aspects of sex but were afraid to ask: the history of sex; sex and religion; sex and the law; sexual customs around the world; the biology of sex; the physiology of sex, anatomical curiosities; Gay and lesbian sex; sex and the animal kingdom; the great sex manuals; sex in literature, film and art; sex aids and toys; aphrodisiacs; masturbation; pornography; famous sexual athletes (and famous flops); the language of sex; kinks and fetishes; perversions; urban myths, tales of outrageous behaviour and a catalogue of bizarre facts and figures.

Does your mother think it's really charming to talk to every rose bush on the street?

The bestselling, blockbusting, bumper book of humorous quotations rides back into town with 6,000 more hilariously funny quotes.

In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares.

Usefully Useless is a gloriously diverse volume dedicated to the most engrossing trivia in the world.

The Oldest Member's reverence for golf does not cramp his style in telling some of the funniest, tallest and most joyful stories in the whole Wodehouse canon.

Being turned into a vampire is the easy part.

In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise re-emergence from eighteenth century retirement and began Twittering.

Bertie may be in danger of having his spine severed in five places by that jealous gorilla G.

For his first book, AJ Jacobs read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

Danny Wallace wanted to write about a place so special and so crucial to our existence that it had never before been tackled: the Centre of the Universe.

Tired of his life as a globe-trotting journalist, and desperate to finish his latest novel, writer Derek Lambert decides to settle with his new wife and young son in a mouldering casita nestled among citrus groves inland of the Costa Blanca.

DANNY WALLACE IS A MAN.

Eve Ensler is back and has set her sight slightly higher with an intimate contemplation of her second greatest obsession: her tortured relationship with her post-forties stomach.

This brilliantly alternative A - Z of parenting is essential reading for all mums and dads who 'really love their kids, but.

Mark Thomas has been touring the country for months, getting audiences to come up with policies aimed at sorting out the country's political chaos and taking back the power for the people.

Some men are born to lead.

Is anything bothering you?

THE SUDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe laugh-out-loud funny memoir and book of anecdotes about his life and loves from the nation s favourite Big Dog celebrity Traitor!

It all started when Ayn's boyfriend pronounced her pornophobic - in defence of his own eyebrow-raising reading material.

THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER'Warmly funny, dry and mischievous .

Comedian Richard Herring has a major problem.

My parents have always been there for me, ever since I was about seven - David BeckhamFor Tony to admit he is an alcoholic took an awful lot of bottle - Ian Wright on Tony AdamsI've been playing in a golf day for a boy seriously injured in a car accident.

When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard.

Ey up, it's not only footie, pints and pies that are better up north - the humour also takes some beating.

Over 2,000 sporting funnies from every sport: football, rugby, cricket, golf, boxing,snooker and beyond.

He street jams in spandex and wrestles in lycra.

It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable.

The day I was appointed Chair of the shop union was the same day the Pope was elected.

Would you Adam and Eve it?

Danny Wallace is about to turn thirty and his life has become a clich .

Dictionary: A book with a Beginning, a Middle and an End - but not in that order.

'They misunderestimated me' George W.

Kyle MacDonald wanted his own house.

In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet.

'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?

'All I knew about Moldova were the names of eleven men printed on the inside back pages of my newspaper.

'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month'A foolhardy attempt to win a drunken bet led to Tony Hawks having one of the most unforgettable experiences of his life.

It's 1988 and radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit 'Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor and the Majors.

'Having a baby is like watching two very inefficient removal men trying to get a very large sofa through a very small doorway, only in this case you can't say, "e;Oh, sod it, bring it through the French windows"e;' Victoria Wood'It's not easy being a mother.

'I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood' Homer SimpsonFathers come in many guises - wise or silly, strict or kind.

At last!