Humour & Gift

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

How to Deal With Idiots
Maxime Rovere
The international bestseller that offers an alternative to chucking your most irksome idiot out a window.

Sea Fever
Meg Clothier
Everything you need to know about the sea and shore, from high tides to half-hitches

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

Notes from Deep Time
Helen Gordon
The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. A novelist sets out on a journey to piece it together

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

Drawing on the Dominant Eye
Betty Edwards
The long-awaited follow-up to the bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain – with new insights about creativity and our unique way of seeing…

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

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

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

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

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

Get Out of My Life
Suzanne Franks
The new edition of the bestselling survival manual for parents with teenagers.

Weep Not for Me
Constance Jenkins
A beautiful poem to help comfort those who have experienced the loss of a beloved pet

Create Your Own Midlife Crisis
Marie Phillips
We all ask ourselves 'how did I get here?' So try running away or sexting without ruining your life, and create your own midlife crisis with…

Uncommon Knowledge
Tom Standage
Following up 2016's hit Go Figure and 2018's Sunday Times bestseller Seriously Curious, another collection of astonishing bite-sized explain…

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.

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