New Releases
Jessie Cave - Sunset Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
Sunset is bittersweet love story about putting yourself back together after the sky has fallen in.
Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up and tear each other down. Even as polar opposites they make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Ruth is forever...
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit Of Love Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
One of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now major a BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West.
'He was the great love of her life you know.'
'Oh, dulling, '...
The News Quiz - Vintage Treasures Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
A brand new collection of previously unpublished episodes taken from the programme's first four decades.
The News Quiz began on Radio 4 in 1977 and continues to be hugely popular to this day. The first host was Barry Norman, and subsequently Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Miles Jupp, Nish...
They Come Over Here: Asking Famous People Where They're Really From
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
A forthcoming audiobook from Phil Wang.
Inside No. 9 - Series Six DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 21st June 2021
Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith star in their award-winning anthology of twisted tales, where every story will either make you shake with fear or shriek with laughter. And usually both.
From seedy hotels to penthouse flats, from lip-readers to diamond thieves, and from the Last Night of the Proms to...
London Town DVD
Release date: Monday 21st June 2021
Starring comedy legend Sid Field, London Town is a fine nostalgic look at 1940s music hall entertainment. A superb supporting cast includes Kay Kendall, Petula Clark and Greta Gynt.
Jerry Sandford (Field) has been playing the provincial theatres most of his life. But, when he is offered a chance to...
Me Myself & Di DVD
Release date: Monday 21st June 2021
After winning the 'trip of a lifetime' to a caravan park in Rhyl, North Wales, unlucky in love Northerner, Janet, is ready for a holiday romance. Unfortunately, taking the advice of her best friend, Diana - that she should pretend to be the opposite of who she actually is in...
Georgia Pritchett - My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life Hardback
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?), to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars), to becoming a...
The Now Show - Series 56 - 58 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
Three more series of the flagship topical comedy show presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
The Now Show is a much-loved stalwart of radio comedy. Featuring some of the best and brightest contemporary comedians, this award-winning show takes a satirical look at the news through a mix of stand-up,...
The Quanderhorn Collexion Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
Meet the mercurial genius Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet) - a maverick scientist with absolutely no moral compass. Join him and his rag-tag crew on their frontal-lobe-knotting escapades.
And what a crew they are: Q's part insect son, Troy, reputedly a 'major breakthrough in Artificial Stupidity' (Freddie Fox); eager young test...
Boycie In Belgrade DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
Join John Challis on his journey to the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, where he aims to uncover why Only Fools And Horses is so popular in the small Balkan nation.
Apparently it's the most watched show in Serbia, but why? Boycie is received in Serbia as almost a national hero,...
Dad's Army - The Movie Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
The film spin-off from the much-loved TV comedy series starring Arthur Lowe as the commander of an incompetent Home Guard platoon in wartime Britain.
With the trusted comedy genius from the TV series shining through, Mainwaring and company save the day when a crew of a German aircraft take the...
Made In Italy DVD
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
Made In Italy is a heart-warming comedy, set in glorious Tuscany, about bohemian London artist Robert (Liam Neeson) who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Micheál Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife.
A successful and ambitious art gallery manager,...
This Time With Alan Partridge - Series 1 & 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
Includes Series 1 and 2 of BBC One's comedy series starring Oscar nominee and five-time BAFTA winner Steve Coogan.
Series 1
The comedy icon returns to mark the 25th anniversary of his BBC debut.
Due to the sudden illness of its regular host, BBC One show This Time welcomes Alan Partridge...
This Time With Alan Partridge - Series 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
The iconic Alan Partridge returns to the big time with a second series of weeknight magazine show This Time. Starring Oscar nominee and five-time BAFTA winner Steve Coogan.
Alan's run as a primetime co-presenter at the BBC has been going surprisingly well - but all good things must come to...
The Slightly Saucy Box Set DVD
Release date: Friday 11th June 2021
This 2-disc box set is exclusive to Renown and features a selection of slightly saucy films and shorts starring much loved British actors including: Jon Pertwee, David Jason, Joanna Lumley, Reginald Beckwith, Kenneth Connor, Penny Brahms, Richard Wattis, Leon Greene, Hugh Lloyd, Sue Bond, Imogen Hassall, Tim Barrett, David Prowse,...
A Brief History Of Timewasting Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 10th June 2021
All 12 episodes of the sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith, featuring her eccentric East London escapades.
Linda Smith lives in her East London home, where her daily routine involves dozing through Thought For The Day, filing and cross-referencing the pizza leaflets that come through her door, and updating...
Bookcases Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 10th June 2021
The complete Series 1 and 2 of the historical comic sitcom about an embattled Victorian publishing company.
London, 1853, and the sedate religious publishing house of Spavin and Spavin is about to experience a radical shake-up. Vivacious actress Cordelia is on the hunt for a husband and has her eye...
Paperback Hell Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 10th June 2021
Paperback Hell takes a wry look at well-known genres riding high in the publishing charts and mercilessly lampoons them to hilarious effect. Featuring choice chapters culled from titles that bear a striking resemblance to something you've read before, it's the book show that seems determined to destroy the good name...
David J Cohen - Stand Up, Barry Goldman eBook
Release date: Tuesday 8th June 2021
Stand Up, Barry Goldman - like Elena Ferrante, but with jokes - is the debut novel of David J Cohen, stand-up comedian and writer best known as the creator of dozens of songs for multi-BAFTA winning hit TV show Horrible Histories, and less well known as lead singer in the...
Gina Yashere - Cack-Handed: A Memoir eBook
Release date: Tuesday 8th June 2021
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.
According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams of her...
Brighton DVD
Release date: Monday 7th June 2021
Comedy feature following a working class and a middle class family holidaying in Brighton.
Stars include Larry Lamb, Marion Bailey, Lesley Sharp, Phil Davis and Adjoa Andoh.
Comedy Films Of The 1950's DVD
Release date: Monday 7th June 2021
The 1950s, the first decade after World War 2 and after years of rationing and austerity, film makers decided it was time for the British public to laugh again!
The decade saw some of the best British comedy films ever made and some of the best actors emerge. Actors such...
Locked Down DVD
Release date: Monday 7th June 2021
Just as they decide to separate, Linda (Anne Hathaway) and Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) find life has other plans when they are stuck at home in a mandatory lockdown. Co-habitation is proving to be a challenge, but fuelled by poetry and copious amounts of wine, it will bring them closer together...
Micky Flanagan: Peeping Behind The Curtain Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 7th June 2021
An extraordinary backstage pass to Micky Flanagan's An' Another Fing tour, the sell-out O2 Arena run that became the world's biggest comedy tour.
Unlike anything else you've ever seen him in, this is an intimate and honest feature length documentary that reveals how Micky went from performing in East End...
Sally Holloway - The Serious Guide To Joke Writing: How To Say Something Funny About Anything Audiobook
Release date: Monday 7th June 2021
How To Write Jokes for Fun & Profit, from Sally Holloway.
This comprehensive joke writing masterclass has been devised for beginners and experienced joke writers alike. The techniques you will learn can be used again and again to write funny and original material for: Stand-up comedy; Speeches; Political satire; Monologues;...
The Indian Doctor - Series 1, 2, 3 DVD
Release date: Monday 7th June 2021
The complete Series 1, 2 & 3 of the hit BBC drama.
The life of a South Wales mining village is changed for ever when a doctor and his wife arrive from the Indian sub-continent in the Sixties.
Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me), Ayesha Dharker (Coronation Street) and Mark...
Alan Davies - Just Ignore Him Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain.
In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight,...
Brighton Download
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Comedy feature following a working class and a middle class family holidaying in Brighton.
Stars include Larry Lamb, Marion Bailey, Lesley Sharp, Phil Davis and Adjoa Andoh.
Christian O'Connell - No One Listens To Your Dad's Show Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
As a radio DJ in London, Christian O'Connell appeared to have it all. He held the number one spot nationally, with a faithful audience of millions who'd listened to him for years. Celebrities flocked to come on his show and no other radio DJ had won more awards.
But not...
Jack & Millie - Complete Series 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Jack & Millie is the brainchild of Jeremy Front who, with his sister Rebecca Front, had been improvising these two characters for years - and now they've been brought to life in a new show...
The second series of this new comedy show is written by Jeremy (writer of the...
Lee Mack - Mack The Life: The Autobiography Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Have you ever wondered where comedians come from? Why is it that one person is a funny bloke down the pub while another actually makes a living by standing up in front of an audience telling jokes? And where does all that material come from? Well, young Lee McKillop used...
Lenny Henry - Rising To The Surface
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
A second volume of memoirs from Lenny Henry, covering his entertainment career from 1975 to date.
Lenny Henry - Who Am I, Again? Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry.
In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the...
Liam Williams - Homes And Experiences Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Mark is going on the trip of a lifetime: a summer touring Europe in the pay of the travel company he works for.
For his plus one, he turns to his idolised cousin, Paris. Everything Mark's not, Paris is a man of the world with a thirst for adventure -...
Tahmima Anam - The Startup Wife Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, changes everything.
Dreaming big, together with their friend Jules they come up with a revolutionary idea:...
The Hauntening - Complete Series 3 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 3rd June 2021
Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out three-point-three-six billion instructions per second. The average person can only carry out one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions; you won't be able to do that.
But what if modern technology...
Fawlty Towers: For The Record Vinyl
Release date: Friday 28th May 2021
For the first time ever, a complete vinyl LP collection of the audio versions of all twelve Fawlty Towers TV episodes - with an exclusive frameable print signed by the legendary John Cleese. This is strictly limited to just 1, 500 copies!
Four decades on from its original BBC TV...
Charlie Higson - Full Whack Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 27th May 2021
Dennis 'The Menace' Pike, former wild man of Tottenham, is going grey and going straight. Anyway, it was hard work being a yob- the birds, the brawls, the endless beers- and he hasn't really got the energy any more for life on the edge. Then two old faces turn up...
Charlie Higson - Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 27th May 2021
A man kills a prospective buyer for his car. On the verge of becoming a name in the interior design world, he can't afford a scandal and must discreetly dispose of the body - not an easy job when the whole of London seems to be conspiring against him.
Charlie Higson - Happy Now Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 27th May 2021
"I do not believe that a man can be truly happy unless he fully understands what he is and can act accordingly...how can it be wrong to be happy?"
These lines are taken from Will's diary, a seemingly innocuous exercise book which details his house-breaking activities. Will carefully selects houses...
Charlie Higson - King Of The Ants Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 27th May 2021
It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if you don't know the...
Daniel Sloss - Everyone You Hate Is Going To Die Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 27th May 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...
Rosie Wilby - The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 27th May 2021
In 2011, comedian Rosie Wilby was dumped by email. Obsessing about breakups ever since, she embarked on a personal quest to investigate, understand and conquer the psychology of heartbreak.
Part memoir, part investigation, The Breakup Monologues takes on the big questions about our life-changing separations in the modern age of...
Danny Posthill - The Non-Essential Worker Hardback
Release date: Monday 24th May 2021
What do you call a comedian who gets through a pandemic? The one you're about to read about in this book. From sleeping in a sauna to a confrontation with Simon Cowell on Britain's Got Talent, Danny Posthill's comedy career has never been short on excitement. Then along came the...
Stephen Fry - Making History Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 20th May 2021
Stephen Fry's award-winning 1996 sci-fi novel, about two people who change history so Adolf Hitler was never born.
Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds.
Together they realise that they...
Kunt And The Gang - Korona Klub Klassics, Vol. 1 CD
Release date: Friday 14th May 2021
The latest album from the Malcolm Hardee Award-winning comic, including a new version of his Top 5 Christmas hit Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt.
Track listing:
Korona Klub Theme
Christian Atsu And His Katsu Curry
A Lonely Mouse In A Travelodge
Twice (A Tribute To Dulux Once)
Have A Wank (Korona Klub Version)
[i]A...
Chris & Rosie Ramsey - Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. Paperback
Release date: Thursday 13th May 2021
SH**GED
Saturday nights out on the tiles, undying crushes, dating like it's a competitive sport, awkward tales of dating woes, one-night stands, the walk of shame, ghosting, tears and break-ups.
MARRIED
Finding 'the one', meeting their parents, first holidays and romantic weekends away, engagement rings, big moment proposals, wedding bells, the hen...
Geoff Norcott - Where Did I Go Right?: How The Left Lost Me Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 13th May 2021
"Voting Conservative is like buying a James Blunt album: loads of people have done it, but weirdly you never meet them..."
Comedian Geoff Norcott should have been Labour through and through. He grew up on a council estate, both of his parents were disabled, and his Dad was a union...
Matt Forde - Politically Homeless Paperback
Release date: Thursday 13th May 2021
Part memoir, part behind-the-scenes insider view, Politically Homeless is both a fascinating and funny book for anyone who feels annoyed by the current state of politics. Which should be around 65 million people in the UK alone.
Matt Forde has been obsessed with politics ever since he was 9 years...