New Releases
Stewart Lee - March Of The Lemmings Paperback
Release date: Thursday 5th November 2020
As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the Brexit referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience. He would treat all his subsequent writing, until we left the EU, as interrelated episodes of a complete work. The cast of characters include Lemming-obsessed Michael...
Susie Donkin - Zeus Is A Dick Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th November 2020
In the beginning, everything was fine.* And then along came Zeus.
*more or less
Ahh Greek myths. Those glorious tales of heroism, honour and... petty squabbles, soap-opera drama and more weird sex than Fifty Shades of Grey could shake a stick at!
It's about time we stopped respecting myths and...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - The Complete Third Series Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Series 3 sees long-term friends and comedic royalty, Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse, return to the riverbanks.
Across six episodes, this new series takes Bob & Paul to Scotland, Lea, Norfolk, Test, Somerford Lakes and Wye.
Don't Ever Leave Me DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
Made in 1949 this Rank classic comedy stars Jimmy Hanley as a car salesman who accidentally becomes a kidnapper!
When veteran small-time crook Harry Denton (Edward Rigby) is released from prison he moves in with his Grandson Jack (Jimmy Hanley). Harry can't resist returning to his old ways and decides...
Ghosts - Series 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
The return of the hugely successful supernatural sitcom written and created by the stars of Horrible Histories and creators, writers and stars of fantasy comedy Yonderland and feature film Bill.
As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living...
How To Build A Girl DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous family, Johanna yearns to get out and make a name for herself - which she does, reinventing herself as revered and feared music critic,...
Jumping For Joy DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
It's a dog's life in this hilarious British comedy! When Willie Joy (Frankie Howerd) is fired from his job at the greyhound stadium, he takes pity on a fellow victim and adopts an injured greyhound called Lindy Lou, who would otherwise be destroyed.
Teaming up with amiable conman 'Captain' Montague...
Sally In Our Alley Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd November 2020
Beloved by the British public for her string of hit pre-war films, Gracie Fields's Lancastrian earthiness, impish humour and memorable songs have endeared her to many generations of fans. Her screen debit, Sally In Our Alley sees Gracie as a good-natured coffee shop worker in this bittersweet wartime romance. It...
Brian Beacom - The Real Stanley Baxter Hardback & eBook
Release date: Sunday 1st November 2020
Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description. Baxter was a most brilliant cowboy Coward, a smouldering Dietrich. He found immense laughs as Formby and Liberace. And his sex-starved...
Louise Stevenson - The New Comedians Handbook eBook
Release date: Sunday 1st November 2020
Louise Stevenson is a stand-up comedian, writer and comedy coach with over 20 years comedy industry experience. As CEO of Brighton Comedy Course, Louise has a solid background in helping aspiring comedians realise their dreams and has acquired a reputation for delivering quality stand-up comedy courses with consistent 5-star reviews...
Nathan Cassidy - RESUяяECTION: Post-Covid Diaries By Boris Johnson Paperback & eBook
Release date: Sunday 1st November 2020
RESUяяECTION is a diary from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson starting in July 2020, 3 months after the nurses (whose name he forgets) saved his life.
With a daily entry over these months of rehabilitation for himself and the country, the diary is an explosive, page-turning, imagined exposé of what...
Al Murray - The Last 100 Years (Give Or Take) And All That Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
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 . ....
Arthur Mathews - The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL - Thoughts, Ideas, Actions By Dominic Cummings Hardback
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
Dominic Cummings is constantly THINKING; PLANNING; and coming up with BIG ideas.
During a time of momentous events - BREXIT! A GENERAL ELECTION, A GLOBAL PANDEMIC! - the Government's chief adviser has been writing down his thoughts - in diaries, blog posts, on post-it notes and any scrap of paper...
David Jason - A Del Of A Life: Lessons I've Learned Audiobook, CD, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
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...
Grace Campbell - Amazing Disgrace Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
A book about "shame".
For as long as she can remember, Grace Campbell has been told that she doesn't suit her name. But being graceful is no fun anyway.
Growing up in a world of privilege and politics, she had a lot to feel confident about. But she was also...
Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes Paperback
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
Jeremy Hardy, who died in February 2019, was perhaps the most distinctive and brilliant comedian to arise from the 80s Alternative Comedy circuit. He regularly entertained the millions who heard his outrageous rants on The News Quiz, his notoriously bad singing on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, or his...
Julia Davis & Vicki Pepperdine - Joan & Jericha: Why He Turns Away - Do's And Don'ts From Dating To Death Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
From the world renowned agony aunts of award-winning podcast Dear Joan and Jericha comes an unputdownable bible of sex and relationship advice on how to find, satisfy and maintain a husband, from dating right up until you or hubby pass away.
The character say:
We dedicate this tome to Mahmoud,...
Mark Watson - Contacts Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
James Chiltern boards the 23:50 sleeper train from London to Edinburgh with two pork pies, six beers and a packet of chocolate digestives. At 23:55 he sends a message to all 158 people in his contacts, telling them that he plans to end his life in the morning. He then...
Matt Lucas - Merry Christmas, Baked Potato Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
The brilliantly funny Christmas picture book from multi-award-winning actor and comedian Matt Lucas - star of The Great British Bake Off and creator of Thank You, Baked Potato, an official UK download chart-topper and Amazon bestseller!
If you look high up in the sky
(I'm talking higher than a parrot)
You'll see...
Stephen Fry - Troy Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean. Glittering Ilion, the city that rose and fell not once but twice . . .'
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees...
Tommy Tiernan - Winging It Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 29th October 2020
In nearly three decades as a performer, Tommy Tiernan has never wanted to play it safe. So, when it came to doing a chat show, he threw out the rule book: going in blind, not knowing who would turn up.
It could be a global star, like Adam Clayton, or...
Arthur Mathews - The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL - Thoughts, Ideas, Actions By Dominic Cummings eBook
Release date: Tuesday 27th October 2020
Dominic Cummings is constantly THINKING; PLANNING; and coming up with BIG ideas.
During a time of momentous events - BREXIT! A GENERAL ELECTION, A GLOBAL PANDEMIC! - the Government's chief adviser has been writing down his thoughts - in diaries, blog posts, on post-it notes and any scrap of paper...
Gavin & Stacey - The Definitive Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 26th October 2020
Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry. After speaking on the phone to each other every day at work - they finally meet and fall in love...
I won't lie to you, life is never quite that simple. For a start there are...
The Love Lottery Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 26th October 2020
Cinema legend David Niven stars in this classic Ealing satire on celebrity and the Hollywood star system. Directed by multiple-award-winning director Charles Crichton and also featuring Peggy Cummins and Herbert Lom (and Humphrey Bogart!), The Love Lottery is featured here as a brand new high definition transfer from original film...
The Man In The Hat DVD
Release date: Monday 26th October 2020
An astonishing feat of contemporary film-making, The Man In The Hat is a beautifully framed odyssey of music, story-telling and silent comedy traversing the breath-taking landscapes of France.
We follow The Man in the Hat (Ciarán Hinds) as he journeys through France in a Fiat 500, accompanied by a framed...
Angstrom Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Gag-packed, snow-packed and flat-packed Scando-piffle from the minds of Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley, the writers of the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups, Charlie Brooker's Wipe series, That Mitchell And Webb Look and A Touch Of Cloth.
Matthew Holness (Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) stars as Knut Angström, a brooding, alcoholic, maverick...
Conversations From A Long Marriage - Series 1 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 22nd October 2020
The first six episodes of the BBC radio comedy drama about a couple who have been married for over 40 years but are still passionate about life, love and each other.
Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a married couple who met in the Summer of Love and have stayed...
To The Manor Born Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Penelope Keith stars in the much-loved sitcom about an aristocrat forced to part with her family home.
When her husband's death leaves her financially strapped, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton has no choice but to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate. With butler Brabinger in tow, she decamps to the tiny Old Lodge cottage,...
The Thick Of It - The Complete Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 19th October 2020
Multi award-winning BBC comedy created by Armando Iannucci. Includes Series 1-4 plus the specials.
Welcome to the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship (DoSAC), a government ministry barely registering on the Today programme radar, but high-profile enough to produce pant-wetting panic among the major parties' PR teams.
Irreverent, brilliantly sweary...
Trouble Brewing Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 19th October 2020
One of the successful run of pre-war Ealing comedies that secured George Formby's enduring popularity with the British public, Trouble Brewing sees everyone's favourite gawp turn amateur detective when he's swindled out of his racing winnings! Co-starring Googie Withers, Gus McNaughton, Martita Hunt and Ronald Shiner, it is presented here...
Adam Kay - Kay's Anatomy Audiobook, Hardback, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Discover all the weird and wonderful things that go on inside your body with Dr Adam Kay. Covers key stage 2 / 3 human biology syllabus (in a slightly repulsive way).
Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The...
Ankle Tag - Series 1-3 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Career fraudster Bob has been away at Her Majesty's pleasure for the last 5 years, but he's just been released on licence with an ankle tag registered to his estranged son's address. Gruff isn't happy about it, but Bob is a charming man who manages to persuade other people in...
Ben Schott - Jeeves And The Leap Of Faith Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
The Drones club is in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the war-path. Oh, and His Majesty's Government needs a favour. I say - it's a good thing Bertie's back!
One man - and his Gentleman's Personal Gentleman - valiantly set out to save the Drones, thwart Spode and nobly...
Bill Bailey - Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To Happiness Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
In Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To Happiness, Bill explores the nature of happiness and ways to be, well, happy. Being Bill Bailey however, he does so in his own, remarkable, Bill Bailey way.
From paddle-boarding down the Thames in a Santa hat, to wild swimming in a glacial river, Bill...
Dawn French - Because Of You CD, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
"This is a book about mothers and daughters, love and loss, mistakes and regret.
"It's a book about nature and nurture.
"Ultimately, it's a book about what makes us who we are - it is a story for all of us."
Following her wonderful bestsellers A Tiny Bit Marvellous, [st=6775]Oh...
Freddie Flintoff - Right, Said Fred Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
From one of Britain's most-loved national treasures comes a much-needed bible of straight-talking honesty and sharp observational humour.
Right. Does anybody else watch Donald Trump as a guilty pleasure? When social distancing is over, can people still keep their distance? And these days, why has everyone got an opinion on...
Janey Godley - Frank Get The Door! ma feet are KILLIN me Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Since lockdown began, people have woken up to Janey Godley's comedy by the hundreds of thousands... "[She] has provided much-needed relief throughout the coronavirus pandemic with her gallus Glesga interpretations which have been shared around the country with much glee." - Daily Record
This is her first published book, a...
Jason Hazeley & Nico Tatarowicz - What Not To Say To Your Husband Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
The perfect gift for anyone who is, miraculously, still in a relationship.
Be prepared and know exactly what not to say when...
... he's about to spend £200 on a chef's knife
... he gets his guitar out
... he launches into his one anecdote yet again
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Jason Hazeley & Nico Tatarowicz - What Not To Say To Your Wife Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
The perfect gift for anyone who is, miraculously, still in a relationship.
Be prepared and know exactly what not to say when...
... she's off to book group
... she's shopping for holiday clothes
... she's giving birth to your child
What Not To Say To Your Wife is the first book...
Jasper Rees - Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography Of Victoria Wood Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
"I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a...
Katy Brand - Practically Perfect: Life Lessons From Mary Poppins Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Mary Poppins is arguably one of the most famous and well-loved films in the world, but how many of us are aware of the extent of the life lessons that it opens up to us?
Yes, Mary Poppins has a great deal to say, and not just about talking umbrellas...
Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable: Ten Lively Literary Investigations Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Miles Jupp probes mysteries both fictional and autobiographical in these 10 radio investigations.
Actor and comedian Miles Jupp puts his inquiring mind and talent for comic analysis to work, as he turns his quizzical gaze on the world of fiction.
In these 10 entertaining documentaries, he explores why some books,...
QI Elves - Funny You Should Ask: Your Questions Answered Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
The QI Elves are the clever clogs behind the hit panel show QI.
Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show's 'Why Workshop' where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners. Funny You Should Ask features the QI Elves' answers to questions...
Romesh Ranganathan - As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons From A Reluctant Adult Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it.
Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waistline thicken and his finances dwindle to fund his family's middle class aspirations, Romesh reflects on the demands of daily life...
Second Holmes - Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Adventures Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
It is the 1980s and Stamford Holmes is still living in the shadow of his famous grandfather. Languidly living on Sherlock's fortune, he reluctantly agrees to do some work as a consulting detective - if only to provide 'Doctor' Watson with material for the Sunday papers.
Watson, on the other...
The Folio Book Of Humour Hardback
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
In a new and exclusive collection from The Folio Society, The Folio Book Of Humour features a comedic cast of classic and contemporary literary excerpts that will tickle the most discerning funny bone. Dorothy Parker's scathing wit shares a stage with the satirical quips of writers such as Chaucer, Oscar...
Two Episodes Of Mash - Series 1 And 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson combine the mundane with the surreal in their brilliant comedy sketch show.
Acclaimed sketch duo Two Episodes Of Mash (a.k.a. Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson) present their surreal sketch show packed full 'low-key, mundane glamour', with support from a cast including David O'Doherty, Radio 2...
Criminal Audition Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Tuesday 13th October 2020
An ex-lawyer and his team run an underworld service, seeking the most desperate and greedy to become fake criminals, to take the fall for crimes committed by the rich and powerful. They audition three individuals, putting them through hell to find the perfect candidate, but their world is turned upside...
Radio Parade Of 1935 Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 12th October 2020
Comedy legend Will Hay leads an all-star cast in this whimsical critique of the highbrow state of then-contemporary BBC radio programming. Co-starring Hollywood's Helen Chandler, light comedian Clifford Mollison and noted farceur Alfred Drayton, Radio Parade Of 1935 also features celebrated music hall acts Western Brothers and Clapham & Dwyer....
High Strangeness Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 8th October 2020
In this scripted comedy, sci-fi, Audible Original, a quick-witted young blogger turned investigator, Cassie (Sophie McShera) travels to the sleepy English countryside, only to discover a paranormal threat beyond humanity's worst nightmares.
Following a strange event, frustrated British paranormal researcher, Cassie Chambers is thrown together with uptight American, Glen Hedley...