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A Jeeves and Wooster novelThe beefy 'Stilton' Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament - which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him.

Would you cheer if they sent you to Coventry?

The laugh-out-loud funny guide to surviving the Christmas season from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals, now a major series on Disney+CLASS IS DEAD!

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good so he takes a holiday.

'This week the first pet passports came into effect.

In 1841 John Timbs wrote a book called Popular Errors Explained.

Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton.

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?

From a filthy flat in Tufnell Park to the starship Enterprise, it's fair to say that Simon Pegg's career didn't go quite the way he expected.

David Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life.

Did you hear about the scarecrow that won the Nobel Prize?

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.

This is a book for those who unashamedly want manners in the world.

______________________________The original bestselling autobiography by comedian, novelist and national treasure Stephen Fry.

In this charming collection of nineteen stories, you can't help but fall in love with the unlucky fawn who is saved by a nursing home, the troublesome rabbit who warms her way into a new family and the good (German) shepherd who comforts the sick.

'F *** ing brilliant.

Stepping into the lower deck of Christopher Matthew's Triple-Decker Treat, we discover that not only can a Le Creuset casserole be very dangerous in the wrong hands, but so too can Pilates, open-air opera in evening dress, weekending in Wales with a pug, and pushing a trolley in Waitrose.

For all the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides.

What would lockdown internet sensation Britney Spears aka Jackie Weaver do?

The perfect Christmas present for dog lovers.

Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers.

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

- Get your kids OFF their phones!

- Get your kids OFF their phones!

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!