New Releases
Back To Life - Series 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 25th October 2021
It's three weeks after the friendship-shattering revelations of Series 1, and Miri Matteson has retained her determination to live her life after coming out of prison and returning to her childhood home in Hythe. She's got a trial shift at the supermarket; she and her neighbour Billy are going for...
Drop Me Here, Darling Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 21st October 2021
All 13 episodes of the classic role-reversal comedy starring Leslie Phillips and Jill Bennett.
It's not easy, being chauffeur to your ex-wife. Especially when she's wealthy and you're broke...
Leslie Duggan was once a high-flying property tycoon - but then came the 1980s property crash, which wiped out his business...
School Drama Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 21st October 2021
Tom Hollander stars as a washed-up TV actor brought in to turn around a failing academy by staging a school play.
Newly rebranded Deer Park Academy is struggling to turn itself around after being placed in special measures. Hoping to inspire the students (and tick the 'creative learning' box for...
Clark Collis - You've Got Red On You: How Shaun Of The Dead Was Brought To Life Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 19th October 2021
How did a low-budget British movie about Londoners battling zombies in a pub become a beloved global pop culture phenomenon?
You've Got Red On You details the previously untold story of 2004's Shaun Of The Dead, the hilarious, terrifying horror-comedy whose fan base continues to grow and grow. After consulting...
Fergus Craig - Once Upon A Crime Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 19th October 2021
Inspired by the smash hit Twitter videos, Once Upon A Crime is a "hilarious, ridiculous, gripping comic crime novel" to make every reader's life better.
Exeter: a city in decline, South Devon's capital of crime.
Detective Roger LeCarre: a man on a quest to rid the world of crime (starting...
Splitting Heirs Blu-ray
Release date: Tuesday 19th October 2021
From the warped and wacky mind of Monty Python alumnus Eric Idle comes a wickedly funny case of mistaken identity.
Eric Idle stars with Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones and John Cleese in this madcap romp the Los Angeles Times dubbed "irreverent, fun to watch...a killer!"
At a wild...
David Renwick - One Foot In The Grave And Counting Hardback & eBook
Release date: Monday 18th October 2021
In One Foot In The Grave And Counting Victor Meldrew, anti-hero of the nineties, continues his war against the world in a 21st Century where social and technological change have done little to make life more bearable.
Not for the first time, his attempts to claw back some self-respect with...
The Cleaner DVD
Release date: Monday 18th October 2021
It's the cops' job to clean up the city, but it's Wicky's job to clean up the crime scenes. BAFTA-winner Greg Davies writes and stars in this truly arresting comedy for BBC One.
Armed with chemicals, scrubbing brushes and cleaning rags, Wicky removes the gruesome mess at the scene of...
Al Murray - The Last 100 Years (Give Or Take) And All That Paperback
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
Brilliant and hilarious new gallop through British history by everyone's favourite pub landlord and comedian, Al Murray.
1066 And All That, the famous tongue-in-cheek parody on British history has been a family favourite ever since it was first published in 1930. But so much has happened since then . ....
Billy Connolly - Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his "windswept and interesting" life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4 and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's...
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch - Wish You Weren't Here Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
The Rook family run a little business: ghost hunting. And things has picked up recently. Something's wrong. It's been getting noticeably worse since, ooh, 2016?
Bad spirits are abroad, and right now they're particularly around Coldbay Island, which isn't even abroad, it's only 20 miles from Skegness. The Rooks' 'quick...
Jack Whitehall - How To Survive Family Holidays Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive your family holiday, by Jack Whitehall, with a little bit of help from Michael and Hilary Whitehall.
No one family has more experience of travelling together than the Whitehalls. Indeed...
Julian Clary - The Lick Of Love: How Dogs Changed My Life Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
From one of Britain's best-loved comedians comes this wonderfully funny, sharp and touching memoir and a celebration of the bond between man and dog - an autobidography, if you will.
The Lick Of Love takes us on a tour of Julian's colourful life - and wherever life has taken him,...
Little Blighty On The Down Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
All five series of the political satirical soap opera set in the strangely familiar village of Little Blighty - plus Christmas specials.
Little Blighty is an idyllic part of the world, with a church, a market, a small school and a pub, The Cock and Bull. Village life is pretty...
Michael McIntyre - A Funny Life Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited new autobiography.
Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up the next morning in the tiny rented flat he shared with his wife Kitty and their...
Rob Beckett - A Class Act Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and comedy, he's the laddy, cockney geezer but to his mates down the pub in south-east London, he's the theatrical one, a media luvvy. Even his wife and kids are posher than him.
In this...
Sex Education: A Guide To Life Audiobook, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
The official, no nonsense sex syllabus you always wanted. From the Netflix sensation Sex Education, with a foreword from the show's creator, Laurie Nunn.
Questioning your body? Not sure about how you feel? Or worried if that thing is normal? Unlikely educator Otis Milburn and his beloved friends are back...
Sheridan Smith - Honestly Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
Sheridan Smith is Britain's most captivating actress.
Multiple awards and accolades across a career spanning two decades include a BAFTA for her title role in TV drama Mrs Biggs in 2013, and two Olivier awards as a West End performer, the first in 2011 for Legally Blonde and the second...
The Incomplete Framley Examiner Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 14th October 2021
In 2001, fans of the internet were introduced to scanned pages from spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner. Packed with humdrum and preposterous news stories, classified ads, local business features and headlines that seemed to have been typed while asleep, it skewered the banal madness of small-town existence, perfectly encapsulating...
Daniel Sloss - Everyone You Hate Is Going To Die Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 12th October 2021
From one of the hottest young comedians at work today - two Netflix specials, a world tour, a brand new HBO special, and a well-earned reputation as mind-bogglingly funny and hilariously offensive and challenging - a book about his favourite subject...and you will never think about relationships in the same...
The Diary Of A Nobody Audiobook
Release date: Tuesday 12th October 2021
Dive into the life of a normal man with a normal family in this humorous novel told in diary entries from one Charles Pooter: husband, father, and someone who experiences relatable social embarrassments and humiliations.
As he chronicles a year in his life, he discusses his 20-year-old son's foray into...
Code 404 - Series 1 & 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 11th October 2021
Sky One's hit comedy Series 1 and 2.
Series 1
John Major had it all: wife, best friend, glittering career in the police force... when his cover was blown and he met an untimely death. One year later, he's back - part AI and better than ever... or so he'd like...
Code 404 - Series 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 11th October 2021
Sky One's hit comedy returns.
DI John Major and DI Roy Carver were the top crime fighting duo in the Unit but when an undercover sting went horribly wrong, Major was gunned down on the job and killed. As an 'asset' considered too valuable to lose, his body was fast-tracked...
Motherland - Series 3 DVD
Release date: Monday 11th October 2021
The nation's favourite gang of Mums (and Dad) return to navigate the pitfalls of middle-class parenting and the clash of cliques formed at the school gates.
Ed Gamble - You May Struggle To Hear Me Above The Crunch Of My Enemies' Skulls Vinyl
Release date: Friday 8th October 2021
Recorded at the legendary Black Heart in 2019, You May Struggle To Hear Me Above The Crunch Of My Enemies' Skulls is a vinyl exclusive stand-up comedy show from the mind and mouth of Ed Gamble.
Totally improvised across two sweaty nights in Camden, it captures live comedy in its...
Adam Kay - Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas Paperback
Release date: Thursday 7th October 2021
From the author of hit bestseller This Is Going To Hurt.
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the hilarious, poignant and entertaining story of the life of a junior doctor at the most challenging time of the year, with 25 tales of intriguing, shocking and incredible Christmas incidents faced by...
Richard Herring's Would You Rather? Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 7th October 2021
The perfect boredom-busting book for long winter evenings with the family, Richard Herring's Would You Rather? is packed with hundreds of the biggest questions to face us all, including:
Would you rather have a conversation with a dolphin or an elephant?
Would you rather fall in love or fall into a...
Robin Ince - The Importance Of Being Interested: Adventures In Scientific Curiosity Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 7th October 2021
Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now presents one of the world's most popular science podcasts. Every year he meets hundreds of the world's...
Such Rotten Luck - Series 1 & 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 7th October 2021
The complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC radio sitcom about the ups and downs of a second-class writer.
Once upon a time, there was a struggling writer named Woodhouse Carton, who tried to make his name as an author while simultaneously running his own creative writing class....
Over...
Robert Gillespie - Are You Going To Do That Little Jump?: The Adventure Continues Hardback
Release date: Wednesday 6th October 2021
How did Len Rossiter do his Coin Trick?
What do actors talk about, just before they go on stage?
What's the story of Day One with Diana Dors?
What's the low-down on Dan Crawford's wild enterprise at the legendary King's Head?
The story about the spy who lusted after a...
Adam Kay - Kay's Marvellous Medicine Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
The hilarious book from bestselling, record-breaking author Adam Kay.
The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off but there was one TINY LITTLE problem back then... doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked.
It's time to find out...
Fi Glover & Jane Garvey - Did I Say That Out Loud? Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
Award-winning broadcasters Fi Glover and Jane Garvey don't claim to have all the answers (what was the question?), but in these hilarious and perceptive essays they take modern life by its elasticated waist and give it a brisk going over with a stiff brush.
They riff together on the chuff...
Jimmy Carr - Before & Laughter Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
Jimmy Carr: hilarious, successful and unmissable. At the top of his game, he is an award-winning comedian who consistently performs to sell-out arenas around the world. He's also, by his own admission, a happy guy. Yet it wasn't always like that.
Back when he was 25, Jimmy was in a...
Katherine Ryan - The Audacity Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
The star of The Duchess and the host of Telling Everybody Everything, this is the debut book from superstar comedian Katherine Ryan.
"While I've been very blessed to have worked in comedy for over a decade, The Audacity gives me the opportunity to connect with people more fully and honestly...
Lovely Jubbly: A Celebration Of 40 Years Of Only Fools And Horses Hardback
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Only Fools And Horses, as Jim Sullivan (writer and son of show creator John Sullivan) takes you behind the scenes of each and every episode, in this fully illustrated definitive history of the iconic BBC show.
Long Live Hookey Street ...
Once upon a time...
Lucy Beaumont - Drinking Custard: Diary Of A Confused Mum Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
From TV's award-winning comedy mum, Lucy Beaumont, comes her "hilarious debut on the trials and tribulations of motherhood".
Known for her sharp, witty and surreal view on everyday life, Lucy shares the unpredictable craziness of being a mum in this brilliant and laugh-out-loud 'mumoir'. Mums everywhere will recognise the madness...
Robert Ross - Forgotten Heroes Of Comedy eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
In this long overdue and affectionate salute, celebrated comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest, funniest and most fascinating names in comedy - from both sides of the Atlantic.
With the passionate input of such favourite comics as Tim Brooke-Taylor, Hattie Hayridge, Roy Hudd, Michael Palin,...
Simon Weaver - The Rhetoric Of Brexit Humour: Comedy, Populism And The EU Referendum Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th September 2021
Since 2016 there has been an outpouring of humour, comedy and satire on the United Kingdom's EU Referendum and decision to leave the EU, or Brexit. This book examines the relationship between Brexit and its comedy, exploring how Brexit and comedy are connected in both Leave and Remain discourse.
It...
Rigor Mortis Audio Download
Release date: Friday 24th September 2021
All 18 episodes of the sitcom set in the fascinating but misunderstood world of the pathology lab.
Meet Dr Anthony Webster and Dr Ruth Anderson, two pathologists attempting to live normal lives in an atmosphere of death, decay and seriously unpleasant smells. Anthony loves his chosen profession, finding every cadaver...
Rich Hall - Nine Gigs
Release date: Thursday 23rd September 2021
A heavily fictionalised memoir from comedian Rich Hall
David Renwick - One Foot In The Grave Hardback
Release date: Monday 20th September 2021
A novel which weaves together some of the moments from the television comedy series, One Foot In The Grave, to form a record of a year of mishaps, misery and mayhem in the life of Victor Meldrew. The events are embellished by his pessimistic outlook and quirky stream of consciousness.
Ghosts - Series 1, 2 & 3 DVD
Release date: Monday 20th September 2021
The hugely successful sitcom created by the writers and performers from the award-winning Horrible Histories, Yonderland and the feature film Bill.
Includes all episodes from Series 1-3, plus the 2020 Christmas Special and bonus features.
The crumbling country pile of Button House is home to numerous restless spirits who have...
Ghosts - Series 3 DVD
Release date: Monday 20th September 2021
The hugely successful supernatural sitcom returns to BBC One for another series.
Alison and Mike are working hard to bring their new 'guest house' plans to fruition, when the peace is disrupted by an unexpected visitor who arrives with a life-changing revelation. Alison questions everything she thought she knew, and...
The Rebel Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 20th September 2021
For the audiences of 1961, accustomed to seeing Tony Hancock as a flickering 405-line black and white image, The Rebel must have come as a revelation: there was The Lad Himself, larger than life, on the big screen, in colour. Stone me, who'd have thought it!
Now, in a revelation...
Alex Horne - Bring Me The Head Of The Taskmaster: 101 Next Level Tasks Hardback
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
101 next level tasks (and clues) that will lead one ordinary person to some extraordinary Taskmaster treasure.
Alex Horne
noun
1. comedian, writer, gambler, taskmaster, podcaster, birdwatcher, potential neologist and father.
Bob Mortimer - And Away... Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
The long-awaited first autobiography by national treasure Bob Mortimer.
Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his...
Completely Staged Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
Starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, along with A-list guests, the award-winning and critically acclaimed British television comedy series Staged was an instant hit. Launched during the global coronavirus pandemic, the show follows the two thespians playing fictionalised versions of themselves as they try to rehearse a play during lockdown......
David Jason - A Del Of A Life: Lessons I've Learned Paperback
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
In celebration of Sir David Jason's 80th year, A Del Of A Life: Lessons I've Learned relives Jason's extraordinary life and career from over 50 years in entertainment.
From a trainee electrician to one of Britain's most revered and loved actors, Jason shares heartfelt and hilarious wisdom with readers on...
Gyles Brandreth - Odd Boy Out Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
"I am what my childhood made me."
But what is that exactly, Gyles?
Who are you? And why?
In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family.
It is a story about...
Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation - The Complete Series 1-10 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
Few can forget where they were in September 1993 when they first heard Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series,...