Humour Books > T Humour Books > 5 GBP to 9 GBP

Advantages: Easy to read, Witty
Disadvantages: Far too long for a book on this topic

Much to my surprise, I really enjoyed reading this book. I opened the cover and expected to find a series of shallow (and wholly uninteresting) encounters between people I was likely to deem shallow and wholly uninteresting. Instead, I found the backpage reviewers comment of "Jane Austen with a Martini" to be blindingly appropriate. This book is a good read for anyone who enjoys traditional women's fiction or indeed, the wry humour of Jane Austen ...
...goes far to bridging the gap between the two genres. It follows the story of the young protagonist, Janey Wilcox, lingerie model through her rise and rise through the ranks of the famous and superficial. Through her marriage to the highly 'appropriate' (and far too nice for her), Selden Rose, her sexual exploits as she uses her explosive good looks to get exactly what she wants and to her eventual (and much applauded) downfall, flat on her pretty, ... Read review

Advantages: Very British, very political, very funny
Disadvantages: Alas, more true to life than we might wish

...following that grew up about the television series Yes, Minister and its successor, Yes, Prime Minister. So popular was this show among political types that journalists, politicians and bureaucrats could be assumed to be unavailable whenever this show was on television. Margaret Thatcher even edged her way in by playing a brief scene with Eddington and Hawthorne. As with many of the better BBC productions, a companion book was released to accompany ...
...the style of 'The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister'. The successor volume followed Hacker into No. 10 Downing Street with the same flair and hilarity. From the very first page of the forward, the tone is set: ----- Before going into politics full time, Hacker (the minister in question) had been first a polytechnic lecturer and, later, Editor of 'Reform'. When the diaries were first transcribed they were hardly readable, having been dictated very much ... Read review

Advantages: Hilarious Black comedy, right up there with the best of Sharpe
Disadvantages: Had to put it down and go to work

...when he finds out that the spoon has been pawned. He is accepted with open arms as a Lloyds name and is only brought to heel when he is asked to repay some major sums to that august body. In true Tom Sharpe style there follows a drug fuelled motorbike ride through unfamiliar countryside, ending up in bed with the wrong woman, in the kind of implausible yet highly credible kind of story line that only Tom Sharpe can pull off. As with any book review ...
...I have read all of the Tom Sharpe books. A few, such as Porterhouse Blue, Wilt and Blott on the Landscape have made it onto the small screen, to great acclaim, and including such stars as Griff Reese Jones, David Suchet and Geraldine James. it is a shame that more can't be filmed but the content may not sit well with a family audience. In my experience, the book is always better than a film or TV adaptation so five yourself a treat and read The Midden, ... Read review