Humor books from England
Recommended humor books (37)
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If you are into humor here are some humor books from England for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor EN
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The third book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. The Chronicles of St. Mary’s tells the chaotic adventures of M... continue
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A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor EN
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The second book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. The Chronicles of St. Mary’s tells the chaotic adventures of ... continue
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A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor EN
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Book Four in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.
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Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad EN
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When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most mysterious and impenetrable cultures.
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Briefly, A Delicious Life : A Novel by Nell Stevens EN
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"A lively, daring ghost story about a dead teen girl who falls in love with a female writer who has no idea she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical ... continue
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Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott EN
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A humorous examination with serious overtones of the concepts of space, time, and dimension.
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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett EN
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The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett together . . . and all Hell breaks loose.
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House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy by Bryan Stanley Johnson EN
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House Mother Normal is a remarkable study of old age. It is also a major modern novel. B.S. Johnson's achievement in this 'geriatric comedy' was to deploy his prodigious technical skills and inventiveness to explore the minds of the old with precision, humour and unflagging compassion. He recognised its technical difficulties:'What I wanted to do was to take an evening in an old people's home, and see a single set of events through the eyes of not less than eight old people. Due to the various deformities and deficiencies of the inmates, these events would seem to be progressively "abnormal" t... continue
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Igualtat de ritus by Terry Pratchett CA
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Catalan version of Equal Rites.
A funny story of a little girl that became a powerful wizard by mistake.