Growing Old Disgracefully: How to upset and perplex your children with increasingly erratic and unreasonable behaviour by Rohan Candappa (Ebury Press, 2002)
Does your mother think it's charming to talk to every rose bush on the street? Has your father taken up fundraising for the donkey sanctuary on retirement? Do they seem to be having too much fun for a couple with two fake hips, a pacemaker and three steel pins between them? Then this book is for them.

Wigwatching by Viz (Boxtree, 2002)
A gold mine of dodgy wigs, toupées and comb-overs. The Viz team has scoured the length and breadth of the land to bring us revealing pictures of the most horrifying hair pieces and lamentable lid warmers ever seen in print.

1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman (Methuen, 1991)
First published in 1930, this is a humorous look at British history in which the authors offer their own unique interpretation of events. The book is a satire upon textbook history and our confused recollection of it. Sellar and Yeatman were prominent contributors to "Punch".