Humour & Gift

A Fourth Innings with Cardus
Neville Cardus
Fifty years of the essays, newspaper articles and press reports from Neville Cardus, the great cricket writer.

Cardus on Cricket
Neville Cardus
Sir Neville Cardus was a literary writer whose subject happened to be cricket, and Cardus on Cricket is a representative selection of the best of Card…

It Could Have Been Yours
Jolyon Fenwick
Things you never knew you wanted – even if you could afford them

The Little Book of Perfumes
Luca Turin
This marvellous little book is a distillation of the essence of Turin and Sanchez's acclaimed masterwork Perfumes: The A-Z Guide

A Sensory Curriculum for Very Special People
Flo Longhorn
A Sensory Curriculum for Very Special People is designed for teachers and parents of children with profound multiple disabilities combined with sensor…

Brain Games for Your Child
Robert Fisher
Every child needs love and physical care, but also play that stimulates their thinking and helps boost their brain power. By playing with parents, gra…

Creative Mythology
Joseph Campbell
Campbell examines the inner story of modern culture, encompassing its philosophical, spiritual and cultural history since medieval times, and consider…

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
James Finn Garner
A witty contemporary parody of traditional fairy tales.

Primitive Mythology
Joseph Campbell
One of Joseph Campbell's classic quartet, a study of the ethno-cultural roots of mythology.

The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes
Theodora Lau
Now in its ninth edition, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the Chinese lunar zodiac, skillfully com…

Book of Obituaries
Ann Wroe
A selection of the two hundred best obituaries that have appeared in The Economist since the first one was published in 1995.

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-…

Wheat-Free Cooking
Rita Greer
A helpful and informative book by Rita Greer, who has over twenty years' experience of devising gluten intolerant diets.

Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy
L Vaughan Spencer
HILARIOUS! Laughed out loud from start to finish. So much great material. Silly and smart. Bravo.

Movie Lists
Paul Simpson
At last! A film book that is really useful! And fun! These enthusiasts' lists, arranged by genre, director or actor, answer that most difficult o…

The Answers
Lucy Kellaway
…covers the gamut of problems that can crop up in office life…her answers will also offer much needed help and balm to soothe the troubled office…