The 2009 Private Eye Annual presents the year's best cartoons, jokes and spoofs from the UK's most successful satirical magazine.

All New! Another Collection of Quiz Show Really Dumb Answers! Proven Christmas bestseller, taken from one of the most popular columns in Private Eye 'Dumb Britain 2' is the perfect stocking filler.

The team behind Radio 4's THE NOW SHOW present the fruits of a decade's staring at world events and tutting - in the form of the definitive guide to all the biggest, smallest, cheesiest, most irritating, most stupid, most gut-wrenching or most plain silly things, people and activities on the planet.

* Volume 3 of the massive bestselling humour series - over half a million copies sold

Offering bizarre facts, fiends and freaks, this book helps you: marvel at the ice man, who survived Everest's 'Death Zone' in just a pair of shorts; try not to scream in fright at the living zombie, covered head to toe in ghoulish tattoos; and, praise the heroic pet parrot who saved a family from their burning home.

Collects stories of human misfortune since the dawn of the universe, showing why everything that can go wrong, does. This book demonstrates that the entire universe is actually set up to ensure your toast always fall butter side down - and, what's more, that it lands precisely where the cat has shed hair all over the carpet.

So your husband/boyfriend/partner has just tipped over 35/40/45/50 and you can see that he's not quite as keen on Emmerdale as he once was. He's started to dress with his jeans hoiked too high like his hero Jeremy Clarkson and he's bought a home gym - the one recommended by George Clooney.

Chic Murray is a cult figure of alternative humour, a comedic pioneer ranked in the highest echelons of his art in the last century and admired around the world. This title features many of Chic's funniest one-liners - some well known and others taken from material newly found by his family.

Readers of the brilliant Telegraph Letters page', as Ian Hislop recently lauded it, will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. But what of the 95 per cent of the paper's huge postbag which never sees the light of day? Some of the best letters inevitably arrive too late for the 24/7 news cycle, .

- Which king ordered everyone to bed at 8pm? - How many Pot Noddles are sold every second in Great Britain? - How much does the hammer of Big Ben's bell weigh? If you want to know the answers to these and a whole host of other questions about Blighty, then this is the book for you!

From humble beginnings at the Windmill Theatre and Expresso Bongo , to The Frost Report , Call My Bluff and I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue , this collection of stories and anecdotes recalls the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.

Includes nativity play anecdotes, such as children forgetting their lines, ad-libbing, falling of the stage, picking their noses and showing their knickers. One hilarious anecdote tells of an innkeeper who generously says there's plenty of room for Mary and Joseph, while another child, allows Mary to come in but not Joseph.

The follow-up book to the huge cult hit, POSTSECRET, focusing on the secrets of teens and students.

The perfectly formed humour title of the year everyone already wants

42 atheist celebrities, comedians, scientists and writers give their funny and serious tips for enjoying the Christmas season.

A guide to the slip-free, risk assessed crazy criminal world of Britain in the 21st Century.

The Anthology. This is the most outrageous and most substantial collection of insults ever compiled, digging deeper into the realms of slander and abuse than ever before. Witty, damning and very entertaining, it laughs, mocks and snarls at the world at large. Practical and actually quite useful if you want to take out your wrath on someone.

Compiler Ivor Gripe presents 1000 memorably unmeasured statements of full-on, blood-vessel-busting fury, loathing and intolerance from an array of contemporary luminaries who should know better than to air their prejudices in public.

Including snapshot anecdotes, this title describes the various moments of the people that have ruined their day.