Stickmen Bumper Edition, by Peter Vegas (Random House, RRP $19.99): If you’ve spent any time at all on the internet, you’ve probably come across some of those cute little stickmen jokes and had a wee giggle. But did you know that…
Category: Humour
Not all insults but still good value
The Mammoth Book of Insults, edited by Geoff Tibballs (Constable & Robinson, RRP $29.99): If you’ve ever struggled to come up with the perfect insult to hurl at an annoying sibling/co-worker/spouse, this could be the perfect book for you. It’s…
Tree-huggers should stop reading now
Stuff the Planet, by Peter Janssen with Malcolm Evans (Hachette Livre, $19.99): Okay you tree-hugging, hairy armpit-toting hippies, look away now. This book isn’t for you. We’ve heard plenty about why global warming is a bad thing, but what about the…
Getting to know them over coffee
Coffee With: Groucho Marx and Oscar Wilde, both published by HarperCollins ( $19.99 each): Now here’s a cutesy idea: a series of dramatised biographies that allow the reader to travel back in time and spend an hour or so with…
Second in series as fun as the first
Motor Mouth, by Janet Evanovich (HarperCollins, $34.99): Alexandra Barnaby (better known to her friends as Barney) and race-car driver Sam Hooker are back in a new novel that follows on from the best-selling Metro Girl. Barney is now Sam’s raceday spotter and during…
Are you from Yachtlandia?
Shoot the Breeze: How to Speak Yachtie, by Sarah Ell (Random House, RRP $19.99): If you felt totally out of your depth during the recent America’s Cup racing, this book might just be what you need. Shoot the Breeze will teach you…
Fictional travel guide as good as a holiday
San Sombrero, by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch (Hardie Grant Books, $34.99): This cracking little guide to the fictional Central American country of San Sombrero is the latest offering in the Jetlag Travel Guide series. Described as the birthplace…
Dads, just for a laugh
Fathers’ Wit, by Rosemarie Jarski (Reed Publishing, $24.99): Dads have a knack of being funny — whether it’s in a corny way or fits more in the realm of truly, side-splittingly hilarious. Maybe it’s a side effect of fatherhood, all the…
How to train your bloke
The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Men, by Anita Naik (Piatkus, $29.99): I’m sure we’ve all looked at our bloke at some point and wondered just what was going on in his head. This book has the answers you need, whether you’re…
Know your blokes
The Spotter’s Guide to the Male Species, by Juliette Wills (Random House, $22.95): Blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe may have tried to convince us diamonds are a girl’s best friend but she was wrong. This little book is truly a girl’s…