Russell's ebook Library
Mere Anarchy
Woody Allen
'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen's first collectio...
The Midden
Tom Sharpe
Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyd's' Names no longer want to talk to him. Whe...
Motorworld
Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson gets under the skin of 12 countries by looking at the cars people drive and how they drive them. Hilarious travel writing.
Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society
Rich Hall
Hall uses his creation to explore the US of trailer parks, petty crime, insane money-making notions and harsh class divisions. He's pretty darn funny about it too... this is an intelligent and inspired book.As funny as his hilarious stand-up.
Porterhouse Blue
Tom Sharpe
Porterhouse Blue [1]: Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cachet it confers on the athletic sons of county families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet M...
Riotous Assembly
Tom Sharpe
The brilliantly satirical first novel from the British master of farce.When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandan...
Side Effects
Woody Allen
Before Woody Allen set his sights on becoming the next Ingmar Bergman, he made a fleeting (but largely successful) attempt at becoming the next S J Perelman. Side Effects, his third and final collection of humor pieces, shows his efforts. These essay...
Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side That's Right
Scott Adams
He's the icon of millions of corporate workers, the most popular cubicle dweller on this planet. He spends his days in endless meetings with incompetent supervisors, performing perfunctory tasks mixed with the occasional team-building, brainstorming,...
Things Snowball
Rich Hall
"I stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the US-Canadian border commemorating 'Lasting Peace Between America and Canada', as if there had ever been a problem. Show me a garden commemorating Peace Between America and, say, Iraq and ...
The Throwback
Tom Sharpe
Hilarity ensues when Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, and into the world of suburbia, and marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in modern society by his medieval upbringin...
Vintage Stuff
Tom Sharpe
Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command li...
Wilt
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [1]: Henry Wilt has been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, carpenters, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his wife Eva is given ...
The Wilt Alternative
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [2]: A novel which continues the saga of Henry Wilt, an innate coward and hen-pecked husband whose escapades include a drunken (and very painful) battle with a rosebush, an all-consuming infatuation with an overseas student, and becoming an unwi...
The Wilt Inheritance
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [5]: Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt...
Wilt in Nowhere
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [4]: One of the most impressive things about Wilt in Nowhere is that Tom Sharpe manages to go on being outrageous and funny after such a long career - after all, what does a satirist do when real world lifestyles and events exceed his wildest ea...
Wilt on High
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [3]: Though The Wilt Alternative made it dismally clear that Sharpe had pretty much exhausted the comic possibilities of the hapless, misanthropic Henry Wilt character, here they both are again - in another strained series of slapsticky, mildly ...
Without Feathers
Woody Allen
The title of Woody Allen's second collection of New Yorker-style sprint humor is a sly comment on Emily Dickinson's famous quote, "Hope is the thing with feathers." Without Feathers delivers Allen's hopeless schlub persona - you remember, what he use...
The World According to Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson
The World According to Clarkson [1]: The world is an exciting and confusing place for Jeremy Clarkson - a man who can find the overgrown schoolboy in us all. In The World According to Clarkson, one of the country's funniest comic writers has free rei...
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