Henry Youngman

Nick HornbyDo you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just...

Angela Thirkell In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in most of her later books. She also introduces us to specific...

Ben EltonThe war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From...

Hilarious Hebrew is a book that will help you memorise Hebrew words in a FUN and FAST way, with no tedious repetition. Hilarious Hebrew is for anyone interested in learning...

Patricia MarxPatricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as readers of "The New Yorker" and fans of "Saturday Night Live" already know. Her fiction debut...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a...

Charles BukowskiFrom iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed...

Carl HiaasenUnfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against...

Author: Francesca Simon Warning: Too rude for parents and for slimy toad little brothersThese are Horrid Henry's very own jokes: the jokes that grossed out Mom and Dad... that made...

Dr Seuss This follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories features familiar Seuss faces and places — including Horton the Elephant, Marco, Mulberry Street, and a Grinch — as well...

Janet EvanovichLow-rent bounty hunter Stephanie Plum reaches depths of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and hideous cars...