Funny Nonfiction

Affectionately dubbed "the Jewel in the Crown of the Tetbury Advertiser" by its ever-patient editor, Debbie Young has been a regular columnist for this award-winning community magazine since 2010. In its ten issues per year, she shares her homespun philosophy and wry English humour with its loyal readers. This collection brings together her columns from 2010-2015, charting history in the making as it affects local residents, and giving her whimsical perspective on the wider world from the heart of the Cotswolds.

This collection of humorous columns for a rural parish magazine reflects life all year round in a small English village in the beautiful Cotswolds countryside where the author has lived since 1991. Easy to dip into, this light-hearted volume provides entertaining reading for anyone interested in modern rural community life and the real-life equivalent of the fictional village of Wendlebury Barrow, the parish that is the setting for Debbie Young's fiction books. It is the sequel to All Part of the Charm, a collection of nostalgic essays and parish magazine columns. Debbie Young also writes...

This second collection of Debbie Young's lighthearted yet thoughtful columns for the Tetbury Advertiser record the author's thoughts during the tumultuous five-year period from 2016 through 2020 - the era of Brexit and of President Trump - when even in her quiet corner of the Cotswolds, it often seemed the world had gone mad. Charming the readers of this multiple-award-winning community magazine with her homespun philosophy, with playful wit and with vivid imagination, Debbie Young provides a sense of perspective about what really matters in life.

Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras - skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities - came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada (1852-1913). In a country that was not known for freedom of speech, he first drew political cartoons, much to the amusement of the local population but not the politicians. He continued to draw cartoons throughout much of his life, but he is best known today for his calavera drawings.

Questions in this audiobook can be fun and challenging at the same time. This is an ideal solution for kids with gaming and social media addiction. Video games and other addictions can ruin a healthy childhood, and it’s so frustrating for parents. Solving riddles helps to stimulate the brain, boost creativity, and learn new things. Both kids and adults can enjoy this at the same time. You can enjoy this at home, on the road, at bedtime, or use this in a school competition.

Uncover the side-splitting life of cucumber scaredy-cats, non-stop pooping hamsters, exploding fish and everything in-between (and some things that have nothing to do with pets but are still ridiculously funny). This hilarious audiobook answers all the big questions, like: do sausage dogs eat sausages? Why has my cat done a poo behind my wardrobe? And how can I persuade my parents to get me a pet? For real-life pet facts, imaginary stories, and a generally laugh-so-hard-snot-comes-out-your-nose listen, this is the only pet book you’ll ever need!

This audiobook is full of jokes for kids of all ages.

Would You Rather? Superhero Edition is an interactive gamebook jam packed with more than 126+ challenging choices, funny jokes, silly scenarios, fascinating superhero trivia, and contains hours of hilarious family fun! It all starts with this question: Would you rather…be a superhero - or - a super-villain?

My name is Poppy the Pooting Panda. I like to think I’m pretty smart. Though every time I try to eat, I poot and toot and fart. I love bamboo shoots, It is my favorite food. But pooting while you’re eating Is often seen as rude.

Kelly Oxford is a wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for 6-year-olds, a underage schnitzel-house dishwasher, the kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rush, and more.

The You Laugh You Lose Challenge is a book designed for both single-player and to be shared and listened to by everyone in your household. But why not let everyone play? Gather your family around the fire, call them into the kitchen, meet on the patio, and let the good times roll!

This audiobook makes a wonderful kids stocking stuffer or holiday gift for kids - boys or girls! Christmas is almost here and the excitement is all around! The twinkling Christmas lights and the aroma of freshly baked cookies fills the air. You and your child will enjoy these special Christmas stories and funny jokes for kids. Perfect for listening aloud with friends and family during the holiday season.

This funny joke audiobook is full of hilarious Christmas jokes that will have you laughing for hours! This is one of the best joke collections in the world. These jokes about Christmas, Santa Claus, reindeer, snowmen, elves, and more will give you a case of the giggles. These funny jokes are excellent for kids, children, teens, and adults.

The Joke King is back with another hilarious joke audiobook full of funny, laugh-out-loud, crazy comedy, and massive assortment of Halloween jokes for children of all ages, teens, and adults. This awesome joke book for kids is easy to listen to and full of laughs. After a few jokes, you will be rolling on the floor laughing. This massive collection of 100+ Halloween jokes is one of the funniest collections in the world! These jokes about monsters, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies, and other Halloween ghouls of all shapes and sizes will make make you go wild with laughter

You and your child will enjoy this cute Christmas audiobook full of fun stories and funny Christmas jokes. This is an excellent listen for early and beginning readers. Perfect for listening aloud during the holidays with friends and family.

This book is wildly funny. I lost track of how many times I laughed out loud. -- Kathleen, Amazon ReviewerAuthor Al Macy is a character and a tightwad with a unique sense of humor. He and his wife squirreled away enough money to retire early, do interesting things, and take unusual trips. As he puts it: “Every day I wake up with nothing to do, and by the end of the day, I've only gotten half of it done.” During his working life, Macy was a neuroscientist, computer game programmer, jazz trombonist, chef, CEO, piano player, clam digger, and technical writer. The book is a journal of a car...

You and your child will enjoy this cute Christmas audiobook full of fun stories and funny Christmas jokes. This is an excellent listen for early and beginning learners. Perfect for listening aloud during the holidays with friends and family!

Your child will enjoy this cute Christmas book full of fun stories and Christmas jokes. This is a fun holiday audiobook for early and beginning learners. These cute Christmas stories are great as quick bedtime stories and cute tales to be listened to aloud with friends and family.

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos. Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the '40s, '50s and '60s. Hilarious, controversial and brilliant, she lived openly as a lesbian (sharing a household with her two lovers and their various children) and was frequently litigated against for her newspaper columns - Evelyn Waugh successfully sued her for libel...twice.

Mark R. Hunter's weekly humor column "Slightly off the Mark" appeared in three newspapers for over twenty years, which is coincidentally the age of his first grey hair, before being unceremoniously cut short in 2014. This volume collects his previously unpublished and “leftover”columns. Mark is an author, 911 dispatcher, volunteer firefighter, humorist, dad, and self-proclaimed home maintenance failure who lives in northeast Indiana with his wife Emily. Together they're responsible for loosing eleven books on an unsuspecting world.