Book publishers Faber and Faber are to release a selection of books tying-in with several comedies and comedians later this year, according to The Bookseller.

Amongst the titles will be The DoSAC Files, a book linked to political satire The Thick of It, written by Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Tony Roche, Simon Blackwell and Ian Martin.

The book, due to be published on 4th November 2010, will be based supposedly on a controversial file left on a train by spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker which lifts the lid off the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship. The DoSAC Files will feature letters, emails, personnel files, extracts from Tucker's diary and visuals from the programmes.

Faber will also publish two new QI books in time for the forthcoming 'H' Series. One is a new annual which will cover a range of different topics beginning with 'H'. The other a sequel to the Amazon best-selling Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.

Currently titled The Second Book of General Ignorance: Don't You Know Anything?, this new book will follow the format of the first QI publication. The topics are based on the panel programme's 'General Ignorance' round, which features a range of questions people think they know the answers to but are in fact wrong.

Amongst the other titles Faber are planning to publish is How I Escaped My Certain Fate by stand-up comedian Stewart Lee, in which he talks about how he began his stand-up career; Livin' the Dreem, a spoof celebrity memoir by Harry Hill; a re-issue of Charlie Brooker's TV Go Home, based on a spoof TV listings website; and Answer Me This, a book based on the Sony-nominated comedy podcast series starring Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann.

These new releases come despite the fact that last year comedy books, especially memoirs, sold badly during the Christmas period. Books from Peter Kay, Jack Dee, Dara O'Briain and Justin Lee Collins did not perform well in the sales charts last December. Only Frankie Boyle's memoir, My Shit Life So Far, bucked the trend.