Stephanie Merritt
Stephanie Merritt is the author of 14 books, including her internationally bestselling series written as SJ Parris. She is also an arts journalist and a former comedy critic for The Observer.
Interviews with 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.
