BAFTA Nominated entertainer and Gold Award recipient from The British Academy of Composers, Richard Digance is also a respected poet with his works published in 14 different countries as English teaching aids. Richard Digance justly deserves humourist Bill Bryson's description of him as "brilliant". In amusing doggerel, Rhymes of the Day describes the what, where and who facts for each day of the year, allowing you to quickly check the important events that took place on your own birthday....

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain. Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey around Britain to see what has changed.

Brought to you by Penguin.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hamemrfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his trave...

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest g...

"Brilliant", "Arguably the most important work in its field", "A literary masterpiece" … just a few of the accolades critics didn't shower on John Blackman's first book, The Aussie Slang Dictionary**.**Despite this, it became a smash-hit success. Don't Come the Raw Prawn! is the side-splitting, risque sequel of words and phrases so dear to the Australian heart.Blackman, the multimedia personality best known as the voice of...

The beloved author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with wry good humor. Fans of Viorst’s funny, touching, and wise decades poems will love these verses filled with witty advice and reflections on marriage, milestones, and middle-aged children.Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married th...

Of all the literary genres, humor has the shortest shelf life—except for Archy and Mehitabel, that is. First published in 1916, it is a classic of American literature. Archy is a cockroach, inside whom resides the soul of a free-verse poet; he communicates with Don Marquis by leaping upon the keys of the columnist's typewriter. In poems of varying length, Archy pithily describes his wee world, the main fixture of which is Mehitabel, a devil-may-care alley cat.

Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence.The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a D...

O, hipster nation:The dive bars, the vintage duds?Great material.

Take it from McCree and Reaper, this Mei be the best joke book ever! The Top 100 jokes and puns about the Overwatch video game universe.Have some Mercy and laugh along with Wacky's new joke book about everybody's favorite multiplayer game!

If smooth is cool and times get tough just think of the good ole days.  Afros were the style back in the 70’s and the hippest parties were trendy with bell-bottoms and platform shoes.  If you have not learned the happenings in those days, you do not have the skinny.

"My grandfather died peacefully in his sleep. Which is more than I can say for the three passengers he had in his car at the time."At school, John Blackman was voted the student most likely to recede. Despite this, he has emerged as one of our best-loved funny men. Now the master of the microphone on TV's 'Hey Hey It's Saturday', the voice behind the hat that is Dickie Knee, the king of the backhanders has compiled over 1400 of his all-time favourite one-liners and...