Joe Lycett is an incredibly right-wing commentator, comedian, television presenter, gardener, cage-fighter, Spectator columnist, fancy boy, bandit, pharmacist and knee-pain advocate. He is also a world-renowned portraitist, and some of the world's most influential and infamous people - Liz Truss, Eamonn Holmes, Mick Hucknall - have sat for him, keen...
How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up?
Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama...
A refreshingly different police procedural, the book presents an alternative contemporary Britain where the Norman conquest of 1066 never happened. In this modern Britain, political allegiances are demonstrated through tattoos, the ancient gods are a part of everyday life and kids use runes instead of text speak.
Amid a bid...
The first autobiography from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin & Stacey star.
Growing up in Liverpool as the entertainer of the family, impersonating neighbours to the delight of her friends and playing pranks on her unwitting mother (from which the poor carpet never recovered), the young...
"I'm always wary of llamas. They're mischievous and smart. I get a sense, when I approach them, that they are conferring . . . as if to say, 'That's that bloke off the telly."
Bill Bailey has always had dogs in his life, including a Lakeland Terrier called Rocky who...
Morecambe and Wise - the most famous and best-loved British comedy double-act of all time. In this unique book, Eric Morecambe's son Gary sheds new light on the comic geniuses who became the nation's best friends. Gary reveals what it was like behind the scenes, with touching and hilarious stories...
How To Be Silly Every Day Of The Year is a fun-packed guide to all things silly.
From drawing a moustache on a potato to putting stick-on eyes on a postbox to walking backwards for the day, this book will keep children engaged for hours and has everything they need...
Lust, greed, pride, envy... Whatever your sin of choice, this book will show you how to do it right.
If there's one thing that Joanne McNally knows how to do, it's how to have a good time - and in Seven Deadly Sins, she explores how much fun being bad...
A Short History Of The Apocalypse imagines a grotesque and bizzarro future where society has collapsed and it is everyone for themselves. Well, maybe not so bizarre then . . .
Covering subjects from gangs and government to bunkers and cannibalism, A Short History Of The Apocalypse is a journey...
This new memoir follows Ayoade's dogged quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the great mid-century playwright, and Ayoade's uncanny doppelganger - from obscurity.
Gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first...