What to Do About Everything: A Manual for Domestic Life by Barbara Toner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
What to Do about Everything is the ultimate householders' guide to 21st century living. It covers everything from changing a tyre to surviving divorce, and addresses all sorts of households, not just the traditional nuclear family. Applying cast-iron information and empathy to all aspects of domestic li ...Show more
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde by Maria Leach
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
"I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation" is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have been the cause of them. His needle-sharp rejoinders were repea ...Show more
Postcards From Puffin: 100 Covers In One Box by Puffin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
This is a unique collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Puffin book cover. From picture books to paperbacks, teen fiction to "Puffin Classics", this is a selection from seventy years of outstanding British design and illustration in one sturdy little box.
The Daily Show & Jon Stewart Present EARTH (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race by JON STEWART
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These are questions that have sporadically interested people since the dawn of time, but whose answers have continually eluded us. Now in their new book, Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" writing staff (who include the team behind "The Onion") tackl ...Show more
A Gentleman's Bedside Book: Entertainment for the Last Fifteen Minutes of the Day by Tom Cutler
$27.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Includes such entries as: human anatomy for the practical man; the most frequent dream subjects; delicious caustic curries you can make; emergency meals from nowhere; shaving - top tips from the pros; deerstalkers and why they matter; how to grow a dashing moustache; how to open a Champagne bottle with ...Show more
Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology by Julie Rugg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Following her highly successful Book Addict's Treasury, compiled with Lynda Murphy, Julie Rugg returns with a second anthology of literary extracts, quotations and bon mots concerning every aspect of bookish behaviour: reading, buying. borrowing, recommending, hunting, even defacing. This anthology incl ...Show more
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by Keith H. Melton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
When the CIA commissioned a top secret undercover operation in 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, they enlisted the help of famous magician John Mulholland to write two manuals on sleight of hand and undercover communication. In 1973 all documents related to the mission were destroyed, Mulholla ...Show more
Disquiet, Please! by David Remnick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Modern Library
"The New Yorker" is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it's also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and me ...Show more
Puzzled: Secrets and Clues from a Life Lost in Words by David Astle (alias DA)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Many a puzzle solver has battled against the devilish mind of long-time crossword maker and wordaholic David Astle, known to many as DA. In Puzzled he holds out a helping hand to the lost and perplexed taking us on a personal tour into the secret life of words. Clue by clue, chapter by chapter, we step ...Show more
The Chaser Annual 2009 by Chaser The
$29.95 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Despite the demands of successful ventures in stage, screen and their own richly rewarding fantasy lives, the Chaser team have found time to put together a new Annual. As always, it will cause controversy. Critics will certainly wonder how grown men can continue to churn out offensive undergraduate clap ...Show more
B is for Botox: An Alphabet Book for the Middle Aged by ROSS & KATHRYN PETRAS
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Category: Gifts & Humour
H is for hearing loss. Harold used to listen to The Who at high volume. Now Harold can't hear Heather even when she hollers. "What?" says Harold. "Who? Whaddya say? Huh?"
If You Love A Christmas Tale: The Night Before Christmas and The Nutcracker by Clement C. Moore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Susanna Lockheart's beautiful watercolour illustrations perfectly complement these classic stories. Flip the page to transform a scene of Santa filling stockings with gifts to a child gazing up in the chimney in wonder, or a banquet scene to one of Clara dancing with her Nutcracker Prince. A book to tre ...Show more