New Releases
Stephen Fry - Heroes Paperback
Release date: Thursday 11th July 2019
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes.
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.
In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells...
Alfie Brown: Lunatic Download
Release date: Tuesday 9th July 2019
21-track comedy album from stand-up Alfie Brown.
British Comedies Of The 1930s - Volume 12 DVD
Release date: Monday 8th July 2019
The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience - making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard.
Although...
Fisherman's Friends Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 8th July 2019
A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Daniel Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he's pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy).
He becomes the ultimate fish out of water as he...
For Love Or Money Download
Release date: Monday 8th July 2019
"Life is sweet", or so you might think if you were in Mark's shoes. He's about to make £20 million on a business deal that he's kept secret from everyone, even his best friend Tim. To add to his luck, a chance encounter at a funeral has given him another...
Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans - Horrible Handbook eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th July 2019
An irresistibly brilliant souvenir for fans of Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans - the first official Horrible Histories film, released on 26 July 2019.
The movie handbook is the ideal horribly hilarious guide to the characters, settings and story behind Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans. You'll...
Back To Life Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 1st July 2019
Daisy Haggard plays Miri, who has just been released from almost two decades in prison following a terrible crime.
Now in her late thirties, with no job, no friends and no choice but to move back in with her parents. Miri is desperate to move on, put the past behind...
Fighting With My Family Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 1st July 2019
Based on a true story, Fighting With My Family follows reformed gangster Ricky, wife Julia, daughter Paige and son Zak as they make a living wrestling together in tiny venues.
When Paige and Zak get the opportunity to try out for WWE, the family grabs a once-in-a-lifetime chance to turn...
The Gaffer Tapes Presents: The A-Z Of Fantasy Football Hardback
Release date: Monday 1st July 2019
If you've secretly logged in at work to set your line-up, or if you can't wait to gloat in the group chat, then this unique and hilarious book about the national obsession of fantasy football is for you.
The A-Z Of Fantasy Football is a unique and hilarious journey through...
The Mr. Pastry Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 1st July 2019
Renown Pictures present a selection of films featuring the bumbling character who became one of the nation's first TV stars, Mr Pastry. Also included are exclusive glimpses into the life of Richard Hearne from his collection of home movies plus a slide show of a very rare Mr Pastry cartoon...
Waffle The Wonder Dog - Waffle's Day Out DVD
Release date: Monday 1st July 2019
AJ takes Evie and Anaya swimming, but Waffle must stay at home with Simon. Refusing to miss out on the fun, Waffle begins an adventure of his own and sets off to find Evie.
Includes:
Series 1 Episode 7 - Waffle Walkies
Series 1 Episode 8 - Training Waffle
Series 1 Episode 9...
Black Mirror: A Literary Season - Volume 1 Hardback
Release date: Sunday 30th June 2019
From the creator of Black Mirror comes the first book in an anthology series featuring original stories from leading fiction writers, all set in the world of the cult series.
Edited by Charlie Brooker, the creator of the hit Netflix original series Black Mirror, this book takes the very essence...
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Quintessential Phase Vinyl
Release date: Friday 28th June 2019
This startling conclusion to the original 'trilogy in five parts' features not one but two versions of Tricia McMillan, the woman who would/would not take off with a two-headed alien and become Zaphod's girlfriend, Trillian. Arthur's search for his lost love takes him to the planet Lamuella, home of the...
Black Joy Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 24th June 2019
Based on Jamal Ali's acclaimed stage play Dark Days and Light Nights, Black Joy tells the story of a naive Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard way about life on the streets of Brixton.
Presenting vivid characters, terrific action and a superb soundtrack of soul, funk, dub and reggae, Anthony...
It's All Happening Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 24th June 2019
Tommy Steele heads an exceptional line-up of pop talent in this highly successful comedy musical from the early 1960s. Featuring John Barry, Russ Conway, Marion Ryan, Geoff Love and Shane Fenton & the Fentones, It's All Happening is presented here as a high definition transfer from the original film elements...
Kind Hearts & Coronets Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 24th June 2019
From a brand new 4K remaster and restoration to mark the film's 70th anniversary, comes the Ealing Studios classic comedy, Kind Hearts And Coronets.
Dennis Price stars as the debonair yet impoverished Louis Mazzini, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was disinherited by her noble family, the D'Ascoynes, for...
Kind Hearts & Coronets - 70th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 24th June 2019
Hailing from the Golden-Age of Ealing comedies, Kind Hearts And Coronets stars Dennis Price as the debonair yet impoverished Louis Mazzini, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was disinherited by her noble family, the D'Ascoynes, for marrying beneath her.
When her dying wish to be buried in the family...
Mum - Series Three DVD
Release date: Monday 24th June 2019
Our favourite characters return for a bold new adventure set over one single week, in the final series of this critically acclaimed comedy starring Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville.
Pauline's divorce money has come through and she's hired a country mansion for the week to celebrate Derek's birthday. So Cathy,...
Mum - The Complete Boxset DVD
Release date: Monday 24th June 2019
Critically acclaimed comedy Mum stars Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville as Cathy, a woman rebuilding her life after her husband's death.
In each of the first two series, we follow Cathy and the unpredictable affairs of her family across one single year. Series 1 begins with her husband's funeral, as...
Old Boys DVD
Release date: Monday 24th June 2019
Survival of the fittest is the philosophy at all-boys boarding school Caldermount. If you're not a champion on the sports field, you're a nobody. No one knows this better than bookworm Amberson (Alex Lawther), who's been at the bottom of the social ladder since he can remember. When the French...
Yesterday - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Audio Download & CD
Release date: Friday 21st June 2019
The official soundtrack for the film Yesterday, in which Himesh Patel plays the only man in the world who remembers the music of The Beatles.
Joan Of Arc, And How She Became A Saint Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 20th June 2019
Can a young country girl lead an army? Joan, guided by her guardian angels St Catherine and St Margaret, decides to wage war against the English.
Starring Dawn French as Joan of Arc. The cast also includes Anne Reid, Maggie Steed, Kevin Eldon and Jim Broadbent.
The News Quiz - Series 99 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 20th June 2019
The complete 99th series from the long-running topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp, with special guest hosts.
Eight more episodes featuring a panel of comedy guests who trawl through news stories big and small to provide comedy, commentary, irony and irreverence.
Don't Forget The Driver
Release date: Monday 17th June 2019
New sitcom from Toby Jones.
Alan Stafford - Bonkore! Second Coming Of A Sex Comedy eBook
Release date: Friday 14th June 2019
Why would anyone wish to resurrect the saucy sex comedy? Surely it died a natural death decades ago. Along with one unnatural death. An actor who killed both himself and an entire movie. And now, out of the blue, a fresh young director is keen to complete that movie -...
Jo Brand - Born Lippy: How To Do Female Paperback
Release date: Thursday 13th June 2019
When Jo Brand hosted Have I Got News For You late in 2017, her calm explanation of the effects of sexism on women to the male panellists became into a viral phenomenon.
There has been a long tradition of books over hundreds of years where a father shares his wisdom...
Rebecca Front - Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures In The Ordinary Paperback
Release date: Thursday 13th June 2019
People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations. Add to that the tricks that life plays on us and the world suddenly seems full of impossible things.
As an award-winning actor and writer, Rebecca Front has always been fascinated by life's little quirks. Impossible Things Before...
Susan Calman - Sunny Side Up: A Story Of Kindness And Joy Paperback
Release date: Thursday 13th June 2019
After writing Cheer up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate, a detailed memoir of her battle with depression, Susan Calman is "on a mission to find the positives in life". Travelling around the country on tour she will visit towns and cities across the land trying to...
Tony Hawks - The A To Z Of Skateboarding Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 13th June 2019
For more than twenty years, Tony Hawks has been mistaken for Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder. Even though it is abundantly clear on his website that he is an English comedian and author, people still write to him asking the best way to do a kickflip or land a melon.
...Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans - Horrible Handbook Hardback
Release date: Thursday 6th June 2019
An irresistibly brilliant souvenir for fans of Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans - the first official Horrible Histories film, released on 26 July 2019.
The movie handbook is the ideal horribly hilarious guide to the characters, settings and story behind Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans. You'll...
24 Hour Party People - Special Edition Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd June 2019
The cult pop history movie released for the first time on Blu-ray, and re-issued on DVD, now with a massive 4.5 hours of bonus material.
A witty and compelling portrait of the 80s music scene following the rise and fall of Manchester's Factory Records label (Joy Division, New Order, Happy...
Stan & Ollie Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 3rd June 2019
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star as Laurel & Hardy in the untold story of the world's greatest comedy act.
Stan & Ollie wonderfully portrays the unique and precious partnership of the legendary duo as they set out on a tour of Britain in the twilight of their career....
Ben Schott - Jeeves And The King Of Clubs Paperback
Release date: Thursday 30th May 2019
Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril. Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majesty's Government must turn to the one man who can help ... Bertie Wooster.
...
Chris Bran & Justin Chubb - Dad Droid Paperback
Release date: Thursday 30th May 2019
From the creators of This Is Jinsy, a fun, fast-paced adventure for children of all ages.
When Freddy Bird's genius-inventor Dad goes missing, he and best friend Minnie find themselves plunged into mortal danger, pursued by dangerous thugs, deadly mechanical birds and a sinister businessman with an incredible shark-like car.
...
Iain Stirling - Not Ready To Adult Yet: A Totally Ill-Informed Guide To Life Paperback
Release date: Thursday 30th May 2019
[i]So, what do you write about when you do a book? Yourself? Nah, I've not done enough stuff yet (you've got to think word count; I'd really have to drag out that time I went caravanning with Aunty Pam and Uncle Bill in order to achieve anything other than 'pamphlet'...
Michael Palin - Erebus: The Story Of A Ship Paperback
Release date: Thursday 30th May 2019
HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.
In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found.
This is its story.
Michael Palin - Monty Python star and television globetrotter -...
Mortimer & Whitehouse - Gone Fishing Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 30th May 2019
Two comedy greats talk life, friendship and the joys of fishing...
Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have been friends for 30 years, but when life intervened, what was once a joyous and spontaneous friendship dwindled to the odd phone call or occasional catch up. Then, Glory Be! They were both...
Ghosts DVD
Release date: Monday 27th May 2019
Ghosts is a multi-character sitcom created by the lead cast of writer-performers from the award winning Horrible Histories, Yonderland and the feature film Bill.
The crumbling country pile of Button Hall is home to numerous restless spirits who have died there over the centuries - each ghost very much a...
Gonks Go Beat Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 27th May 2019
Kenneth Connor, Terry Scott and Are You Being Served?'s Frank Thornton star in this groovy comedy-musical-sci-fi fantasia that could only have been made in the '60s! Featuring performances from Lulu and the Luvvers, The Nashville Teens and The Graham Bond Organisation, Gonks Go Beat is presented here as a new...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - The Complete First Series Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 27th May 2019
After life-changing heart surgeries, comedians and lifelong friends Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse embark on a relaxing yet epic journey around Britain, eating great food and attempting to catch some of the nation's iconic fish.
Goodness Gracious Me - The Complete BBC Radio Series 1-3 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 23rd May 2019
Nothing escaped the eye of the satirical eye of Britain's phenomenally successful all-Asian sketch show that was Goodness Gracious Me. This BBC radio series predated the award-winning TV series that ran in the late 1990s, featuring the same cast.
Prepare for your heart to pound in the Indian recreation of...
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 21st May 2019
The ultimate TV companion book to Good Omens, a massive new television launch on Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, written and show-run by Neil Gaiman and adapted from the internationally beloved novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
'[It was] absurdly good fun...Terry charged Neil with getting it made,...
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book Hardback, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 21st May 2019
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book contains much that is new and revelatory and even several scenes that are not actually in the final television series.
Neil Gaiman's glorious reinvention of the iconic bestseller Good Omens is adapted from the internationally beloved novel by Terry Pratchett...
How I Won The War - Dual Format Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 20th May 2019
Hapless British commander Lieutenant Goodbody (Michael Crawford) enthusiastically leads his troops on a series of debacles on the battlefields of World War Two - including the calamitous installation of a cricket pitch behind enemy lines...
Featuring John Lennon in his only non-musical screen performance, How I Won The War is...
No Kidding Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 20th May 2019
Leslie Phillips and Geraldine McEwan star as a married couple embarking on a potentially unwise business venture in this light-hearted comedy gem from Carry On producer/director team Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas. Co-starring Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell and Irene Handl, No Kidding is presented here as a brand-new high definition...
Shed Of The Dead Download
Release date: Monday 20th May 2019
Witness the hilarious and grisly journey of Trevor, a 30-something man-child and war-gaming enthusiast, and his best friend, Graham, as they attempt to survive the zombie apocalypse.
Warren DVD
Release date: Monday 20th May 2019
Martin Clunes returns to our screens as another man behaving badly: Warren, a hilariously pedantic driving instructor who thinks the world is against him.
Created and written by writing team Jimmy Donny Cosgrove and Paul McKenna, this original six-part comedy centres around Warren Thompson, who suddenly finds himself in his...
Thom Tuck Goes Straight-To-DVD DVD
Release date: Friday 17th May 2019
Thom Tuck recounts heart-rending tales of love and loss, laying bare all the failures he's suffered in his relationships and drawing comparisons with the 54 straight-to-DVD Disney movies he's watched, so we don't have to. These underrated gems - perhaps rightfully ignored and forgotten - mirror his experiences with women...
Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section - The Complete Series 1 - 3 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 16th May 2019
Alex Horne and his special guests bring together stand-up and live music in a free-wheeling and spontaneous combination.
Each episode sees Alex, his band and guests explore a different topic. These range from love to technology, the seasons to the body.
In this collection of the complete Series 1 to...
Billy Connolly - Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures In A Wee Country Paperback
Release date: Thursday 16th May 2019
Billy Connolly may be a citizen of the world, but in his heart he's never been far from his homeland. Coming Home is Billy's unique and intimate portrait of his native Scotland, a love letter to the places and people that made him.
It's an adventure inspired by a single...