Books by Sandi Toksvig
“It’s a light, character-based comedy, a warm-hearted book about a young female couple, Stevie and Amber, who get married and buy a new house, but the previous resident of the house—an old lady called Dorothy—refuses to leave. Then it’s an unfolding of the relationship between these characters and their supporting casts that join them. The writing is very funny. There’s some lovely, witty dialogue. And moments of visual comedy—you can really picture this as a sitcom. It’s warm-hearted.” Read more...
Stephanie Merritt, Journalist
Interviews where books by Sandi Toksvig were recommended
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A Little Trickerie
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Friends of Dorothy
by Sandi Toksvig -
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Fundamentally: A Novel
by Nussaibah Younis -
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Last Acts: A Novel
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Murder Most Foul
by Guy Jenkin -
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The Book of George: A Novel
by Kate Greathead -
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The Persians: A Novel
by Sanam Mahloudji -
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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
by Richard Ayoade
The Funniest Books of 2025, recommended by Stephanie Merritt
The Funniest Books of 2025, recommended by Stephanie Merritt
Every year, the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction draw up a shortlist of books that made them laugh out loud. We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the 2025 judges, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
