Great Yorkshire Joke Book Vol 1

by Adrian Braddy

Yorkshire folk have always been renowned for their wry, warm and homely sense of humour. Here is a collection of well-loved jokes, funny stories and humorous anecdotes, written and compiled by Adrian Braddy, editor of the Dalesman - Yorkshire's favourite magazine for nearly eighty years. The book is full to the brim with wit, wisdom and humour, often expressed in traditional Yorkshire dialect. Covering both fact and fiction, this collections covers every topic imaginable, including family life, love and marriage, famous Yorkshire folk, food and drink, the world of work, days out and holidays, rural life, births and deaths. What all these jokes, stories amd pithy observations have in common is the humour and heartwarming outlook on life that is so typically Yorkshire.

80 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2018

About the author

Adrian Braddy has been editor of Britain's top-selling regional magazine, Dalesman, since 2012. Previously he worked in regional newspapers across Northern England and Southern Scotland and edited a number of papers, including the Teesdale Mercury and Craven Herald. Married, with two children, Adrian lives and works in Yorkshire and spends most of his time writing about, or photographing, the county's beautiful countryside. To date he has penned six non-fiction books about Yorkshire, all published by Dalesman.