This is traditionally the time of year when it's better to receive than to give, and this applies to publishers more than anyone else, as they churn out warehouses full of supposedly humorous crap ...

International best-selling author Andy Griffiths is visiting South Africa! If you haven’t yet heard of him, it’s probably because you don’t have a tween at home. Griffiths is the author of the ...

Actor and stand-up comedian Jon Dore is the star of the new CBC comedy series Humour Resources. The half-hour lockdown sitcom imagines him as a retired comedian who becomes a human resources manager ...

Angela Nagle Materialism by Terry Eagleton. Reading Eagleton is always an important reminder of the kind of academic and the kind of leftist we're in danger of losing. While a global army of career ...

It's in the nature of publishing to plan ahead, and this is truer with so-called humour books than in almost any other area of the trade. After all, those TV tie-in paste-up jobs take time to be ...

The officials at Taloja jail refused to let a highly incendiary consignment of PG Wodehouse titles get to a prisoner. Perhaps they were worried the books would be used to incapacitate warders with ...

The 21st century has been unprecedented in terms of new conflicts. As a generation raised on the principles of democracy, it is our responsibility as global citizens to understand the complexities of ...

When I say Eoin Colfer, you, most likely, think Artemis Fowl. The eponymous antihero captured the imaginations of kids everywhere back in 2001, when the first of what would become an eight-book series ...

‘It all began when Floyd got his kite stuck in a tree… [but] the trouble really began when he threw his favourite shoe to knock the kite loose.” So begins this deceptively simple tale of a boy, a tree ...

We are sniffy about loo books, but thanks to the speed at which they are written they reflect our current concerns more immediately than anything chosen by the Man Booker judges. So there is every ...