Lisa Jardine

Not For This Princess

Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

By Howard Jacobson

Susan Marling

Make Lunch Not War

The Limits of Sex

By Celia Haddon

Victoria Mather

Why I Hate the Country

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

Jonathan Mirsky

Fooling with Feinstein

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

By Ruth R Wisse