Russell's ebook Library
14 Years of Loyal Service in a Fabric-Covered Box
Scott Adams
Anyone who works in a fabric-covered box can relate to Dilbert.Since 1989, Dilbert has been the touchstone of office humor for people all over the world. As long as there are corrupt businesses, inept bosses and downright loathsome co-workers, there ...
Ancestral Vices
Tom Sharpe
With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his...
And Another Thing...
Jeremy Clarkson
The World According to Clarkson [2]: Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place – after all, he wrote a bestselling book about it. Yet despite the appearance of The World According To Clarkson, things don’t seem to have im...
Another Day in Cubicle Paradise
Scott Adams
When Dilbert first appeared in newspapers across the country in 1989, office workers looked around suspiciously. Was its creator, Scott Adams, a pen name for someone who worked amongst them? After all, the humor was just too eerily funny and familiar...
The Big U
Neal Stephenson
The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".But if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, th...
Blott on the Landscape
Tom Sharpe
The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a mot...
Born to Be Riled
Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In "Bor...
The Deeper Meaning of Liff
Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
Does the sensation of Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) without causing a Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from Kettering(5) this summer? Probably.You are almost certain...
The Dilbert Principle
Scott Adams
The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - management.Scott Adams attacks corporate culture head-on in this lighthearted series of essays. Packed with more than 1...
Don't Stop Me Now
Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson knows theres more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on with the job in hand, hed like to take some time out to consider the bigger picture. Dont worry, he...
For Crying Out Loud!
Jeremy Clarkson
The World According to Clarkson [3]: The publication of The World According to Clarkson in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail.Jeremy's one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our he...
Getting Even
Woody Allen
After three decades of prodigious film work (and some unfortunate tabloid adventures as well), it's easy to forget that Woody Allen began his career as one heck of a great comedy writer.Getting Even, a collection of his late '60s magazine pieces, off...
Grantchester Grind
Tom Sharpe
Porterhouse Blue [2]: Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over a...
The Great Pursuit
Tom Sharpe
Frensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. But following a successful court case by a woman who claimed to have been libeled by one of their authors, the agency rapidly loses business.One day, a manuscript for a book called Pause O...
The Gropes
Tom Sharpe
It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hal...
The Hippopotamus
Stephen Fry
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanizing, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too.Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, T...
The Horatio Stubbs Trilogy
Brian W Aldiss
For the first time ever all three Horatio Stubbs novels in one volume. An omnibus edition of the groundbreaking sex comedies that together form the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy.Following our hero from schoolboy through to soldier and on to his 40s, these b...
How Hard Can It Be?
Jeremy Clarkson
The World According to Clarkson [4]: Volume 4 in the bestselling World According to Clarkson series.Jeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How H...
How I Escaped My Certain Fate
Stewart Lee
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face!In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit...
I Know You Got Soul
Jeremy Clarkson
It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines.But it's not just any old bucket of bolts, cogs and bearings that puts that rings his bell. In fact, he's scoured the length and and breadth of the land, plunged into oceans an...
Indecent Exposure
Tom Sharpe
Once again the setting is Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a...
The Liar
Stephen Fry
The British actor's very funny first novel traces the antics of a reckless, irreverent ex-Cambridge student involved in a bizarre espionage caper.Adrian Healey, a British schoolboy and "the liar" of the title, is an amusing, if appalling, character, ...
Magnificent Bastards
Rich Hall
Comic genius Rich Hall introduces a series of magnificent bastards and lost souls in this hilarious collection of tall tales.Meet the man who vacuums bewildered prairie dogs out of their burrows; a frustrated werewolf who roams the streets of Soho ge...
March of the Lemmings
Stewart Lee
As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the Brexit referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience. He would treat all his subsequent writing, until we left the EU, as interrelated episodes of a ...
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