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No Laughing Matter

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Lingo

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Spirited Misanthropy

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The Official Guide to Wine Snobbery

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Craig Brown

Uninvited Intimacy

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Tom Williams

Bertie’s Back

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Tim Stanley

Jokester-in-Chief

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Christopher Hart

Joyful Logorrhoea

King of the City

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Lisa Jardine

Not For This Princess

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Wallace Arnold

Thin Ice

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Susan Marling

Make Lunch Not War

The Limits of Sex

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Edward Short

The Great Satyrist

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Victoria Mather

Why I Hate the Country

Philip Thody

Wodehouse and the Critics

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Dominic Green

Eye for a Joke

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Stephen Pickles

Interval Talk

Richard Curtis

Sweet FA

David Profumo

From Pinocchio to ‘Pataphysics

The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity

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

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Weird Science

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