Humour & Gift

The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard
Ollivier Pourriol
The answer to overwork and burnout, the route to fulfilment and success: letting go

Sign Language Companion
Cath Smith
A practical guide with over 400 illustrations, covering a wide range of topics.

A Cellarful of Noise
Brian Epstein
This is Brian Epstein's own account of his extraordinary life and, inevitably, the story of the Beatles, the greatest pop group of the twentieth-…

Warning
Jenny Joseph
Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older.

A Cheesemonger's Compendium of British & Irish Cheese
Ned Palmer
A full-colour, delicious guide to artisanal and farmhouse cheeses from the bestselling author of A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles

Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint
Russell Davies
A book about PowerPoint built out of PowerPoint – jokes, culture, politics, serious points about power and more, better, jokes

This Book Will Make You Kinder
Henry James Garrett
A sweetly illustrated examination of what makes us kind

Truly Peculiar
Tom Standage
Another bestselling collection of astonishing explainers from The Economist

Pocket World In Figures 2022
The new edition of this annual bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2022

Schadenfreude
Tiffany Watt Smith
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure – in a beautiful gift package

I Saw the Dog
Alexandra Aikhenvald
A leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language

I Like You
Sandol Stoddard Warburg
A tiny book with a big heart – a favourite gift for weddings, best friends and Valentines

Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals
Stuart Heritage
Funny and soothing: let Stuart Heritage tuck you in and read you a story about how everything is fine again.

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Shaun Bythell
Shaun Bythell, Scotland's grumpiest bookseller, is back, with seven witty and affectionate portraits of bookshop regulars

Unconventional Wisdom
Tom Standage
Another bestselling collection of astonishing explainers from The Economist

A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions
Philippa Waring
A beautifully-packaged, fun A to Z of good omens, inauspicious signs, their origins and meanings

Confessions of a Bookseller
Shaun Bythell
More from everyone's favourite misanthropic antiquarian bookseller

Pocket World in Figures 2021
The new edition of this annual bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2021