Nick Hornby

Laced With Tension

The Mezzanine

By Nicholson Baker

Craig Brown

Uninvited Intimacy

Uninvited Guests: The Intimate Secrets of Television and Radio

By Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan

Tom Williams

Bertie’s Back

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

By Ben Schott

Craig Brown

A Love Letter from the Friends He Left Behind

Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered

By Lin Cook (ed.)

Tim Stanley

Jokester-in-Chief

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor

By Richard Carwardine

Christopher Hart

Joyful Logorrhoea

King of the City

By Michael Moorcock

Lisa Jardine

Not For This Princess

Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

By Howard Jacobson

Wallace Arnold

Thin Ice

The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage

By Kingsley Amis

Susan Marling

Make Lunch Not War

The Limits of Sex

By Celia Haddon

Victoria Mather

Why I Hate the Country

Philip Thody

Wodehouse and the Critics

P. G. Wodehouse, An Illustrated Biography

By Joseph Connolly

Dominic Green

Eye for a Joke

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

By Lee Siegel

Stephen Pickles

Interval Talk

Richard Curtis

Two Great Books

Anna Karenin

By Leo Tolstoy

Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book

By Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Lise Mayer

Richard Curtis

Sweet FA

David Profumo

From Pinocchio to ‘Pataphysics

The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity

By Matthijs van Boxsel, Arnold and Erica Pomerans (trans.)

Alan Rafferty

Weird Science

A Short History Of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

David Profumo

Lost in Translation

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

By Jim Holt

Michael Barber

Comic Cuts

Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1950s Comic

By Daniel Tatarsky (ed)

The Complete Peanuts: Volume 1 1950–52, Volume 2 1953–54

By Charles M Schulz