The Times Sir: The Year in Letters (2026)

The laugh-out-loud Christmas stocking filler giftDecidedly absurd and always entertaining, the very best letters to The Times are a treasure trove of wit, humour and unexpected insight.From ingenious uses for wooden spoons to the nostalgic art of naming school puddings, , this collection lets you in on more than a few inside jokes from one of Britain’s longest-running correspondences.While the other pages of the newspaper chronicle the pressing issues of the day, the Letters page often muses on the things that really matter. Now back for the third year in a row, Sir: The year in letters is a selection of the best of these letters, an elegant and erudite display of Times readers at their most whimsical and droll.The perfect gift for anyone with a shrewd sense of humour, this book features:An absurdly entertaining round up of the year’s happeningsMore than 400 letters featured in The Times, curated by Letters editor Andrew RileyOriginal cartoons by Royston Robertson

• Publication date: 10 September 2026
• Page count: 192
• Dimensions: Height 120 mm; Width 187 mm; Thickness 22 mm
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Format: Hardback
• ISBN-13: 9780008824273