Stalin Ate My Homework
10 best books like Stalin Ate My Homework (Alexei Sayle): Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Civil War, The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetrius, Pyrrhus), The Histories, Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage., The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography, Screen Burn, The Hell of It All
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
| Author | Tony Hawks |
| ISBN | 0312305184 |
It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis....
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
| ISBN | 2264022442 |
I hate to be facetious about this, but it’s true. I love to read good books as much as I love to discover which ones are actual impostors—that is, which ones are overrated past the norm, books like “On the Road,” “Catcher in the Rye,” or anything by Ayn Rand. Yuck. Well, this one won the Booker,...
| Author | Polybius |
| ISBN | 0140443622 |
Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, wrote the forty books of his Universal History primarily to chronicle and account for the Roman conquest of Greece between 200 and 167 B.C. He saw that Mediterranean history, under Rome's influence,...
| Author | Gaius Julius Caesar |
| ISBN | 0140441875 |
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman...
| Author | Plutarch |
| ISBN | 0140442863 |
Spengler once wrote that Mozart would cease to be heard not when his music was no longer played, but when its meaning was no longer understood. Something of this fate is also shared by Plutarch in an age where the study of history remains distorted by positivist ideology (see some other reviews on this...
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0140441506 |
In AD 68, Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, with four emperors—Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian—emerging in succession. Based on authoritative sources, The Histories vividly recounts the details of the "long...
Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
Who is that hairy guy in the green Speedo?
Rob Delaney is a father, a husband, a comedian, a writer. He is the author of an endless stream of beautiful, insane jokes on Twitter. He is sober. He is sometimes brave. He speaks French. He loves women with abundant pubic hair and saggy naturals. He...
Kate Adie has courageously reported from all over the world since she joined the BBC in 1969. These memoirs encompass her reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. From the siege at the Iranian embassy which shot her to public...
| Author | Charlie Brooker |
| ISBN | 0571227554 |
Cruel, acerbic, impassioned, gleeful, frequently outrageous and always hilarious, Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn collects the best of the much-loved Guardian Guide columns in one easy-to-read-on-the-toilet package. Sit back and roar as Brooker rips mercilessly into Simon Cowell, Big Brother,...
| Author | Charlie Brooker |
| ISBN | 0571229573 |
'Mankind clearly peaked about 40 years ago. It's been downhill ever since. For all this talk of our dazzling modern age, the two biggest advances of the past decade are Wi-Fi and Nando's. That's the best we can do.'
In his latest laugh-out-loud collection of misanthropic scribblings, hideous...
Ricky Gervais Presents: The World of Karl Pilkington
| Author | Karl Pilkington |
| ISBN | 1401303420 |
In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl Pilkington is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of The Office and Extras, unwittingly outwitting even those comedy Goliaths as he struggles in vain to make sense of the world around him. Unencumbered...
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries
| Author | Alastair Campbell |
| ISBN | 0307268314 |
A revelatory account of Tony Blair’s tumultuous leadership, The Blair Years gathers extracts from the diaries of the man who knew him best: Alastair Campbell—Blair’s spokesman from 1994 to 2003, his press secretary, strategist, and closest confidant. It is a compelling chronicle of contemporary...
Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain
| Author | Ben Hatch |
| ISBN | 1849531552 |
The story of a madcap five-month family trip to write a travel guide—embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes
"Hurry up," I shout at Dinah, whilst on the overhead telly Ray Mears’ Survival is playing extraordinarily loudly...
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
| Author | Cassius Dio |
| ISBN | 0140444483 |
Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph - detailing the brutal battles and political...
| Author | Dara Ó Briain |
| ISBN | 0718154371 |
No, no, no. This book actually made me angry. Marketed as an outsider's look at the nuances of national character, this is merely an extremely cynical attempt to cash in on a comedian's popularity, with nothing offered up in exchange.
O'Briain isn’t completely terrible when he tries a bit of Bryson-esque...
