The Times Sir

The Year in Letters (2026)

Times Books editor Andrew Riley editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Publishing:10th Sep '26

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 10th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Times Sir cover

The laugh-out-loud Christmas stocking filler gift

Decidedly 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 happenings
  • More than 400 letters featured in The Times, curated by Letters editor Andrew Riley
  • Original cartoons by Royston Robertson

ISBN: 9780008824273

Dimensions: 184mm x 117mm x 21mm

Weight: 270g

192 pages

4th Revised edition