Performing Arts

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Packed with hard-won wisdoms and gentle truths, this is Miranda’s honest exploration of the lessons she has learned on her journey from illness to recovery. Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know...

David Mitchell’s 2014 best seller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything’s got worse....

WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR: NON-FICTION The funny, frank and full autobiography of the nation's favourite comedian. 'It's the first time I've done this. Other people have written about me - or for me - but this time it's just my own life in my own words' In his...

Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell. Join him on a tour of the absurdities of modern life....

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much as this one. It was very difficult reading it in public as I looked like a madman' - Richard Herring 'James Acaster has a brilliant comic mind, crackling with energy every bit as much...

At last, the definitive audiobook about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.....

Brought to you by Penguin. 'NEXT, I APPLIED TO WORK IN THE ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of documents and lumbered the...

A stellar line-up and non-stop laughs from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy show It’s the show that needs no introduction! Probably because one wouldn’t really help… Listen now to the 2025 series of Radio 4's multi award-winning ‘antidote to panel games’, hosted by reluctant...

Outsider. Misfit. Criminal. Convict. . . . Movie star. Family man. Comedy legend. Joey Diaz has been called every name in the book (and then some). Now, for the first time, he shares the story of his unlikely rise to fame in his own words—with no punches pulled. Today, he stars in hit films...

Brought to you by Penguin. Where do 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 to wonder that...

The entertaining and honest autobiography from the author of Common Decency: a must-listen for all Tom Allen fans! 'When I was 16 I dressed in Victorian clothing in a bid to distract people from the fact that I was gay. It was a flawed plan...' 'This was an absolute delight to read. Beautifully...

In this book, Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself....

Brought to you by Penguin. Rob Brydon - star of Gavin and Stacey, Steve Coogan's partner in The Trip, and one of Britain's favourite comedians - tells the funny and frank story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book. A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and...

Showtime! is Michael McIntyre at his breath-taking best....

The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years... Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second volume of her memoirs, Jo recounts wild...

This is the second series of one-off comedies written by the genius behind the smash-hit radio sitcom “Cabin Pressure” – John Finnemore. The first series won the coveted Writers Guild of Great Britain award for Best Comedy. Each show is a comedy perfumed by just two actors - including...

From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit. Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he is...

Both series of the hugely popular topical satire show from 2024 Fresh from winning ‘Best Radio Sketch Show’ at the 2023 Comedy.co.uk Awards, Dead Ringers is back with two more series, aiming a satirical slingshot at world affairs, the culture wars – and Mr Blobby. With the supply chain of...

*Nominated for Best Book at the 2025 Chortle Awards* 'Outstanding, I want to press it into the hands of every newly diagnosed person' Fern Brady 'Like a Martian's guide to living on Earth. Funny, enlightening and gobsmacking' Frank Skinner 'A hilarious, crystal-clear guide to autism' Phil Wang...

Ever feel like the whole world is conspiring against you? Jonathon Fairfax can’t even get on the London Underground without bumping into someone he’s desperate to avoid – like Rachel, his first love, who demolished his heart eleven years ago. She tells him that her terrifying uncle (a man...

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless...

All five series of the award-winning sketch show - plus standalone comedy Daydream Believers 'Fresh and full of invention' The Telegraph Welcome to the inside-out world of Mitchell and Webb, a strange and surreal place populated by misfits, eccentrics, talking animals and a few stray Radio 4...

'Hello dear listener and welcome to Peggy & Me, the story of my life after getting a beautiful Shih-Tzu Bichon Frise cross puppy (I call the breed a Shitty Frise - fun) in the form of Peggy. Some of you may be thinking: "a book about a dog, how totally brilliant, I need hear no more, I'm sold."...

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you. When James quit all forms of social media in 2019 he felt like he'd been born anew, but he was worried he'd suffer withdrawal and get lured back online to compete in a never ending...

Famed for his gentle innocence and brilliant observational wit, comedian Alan Carr describes his childhood growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton and his rise to become one of Britain’s best-loved comedians. ‘Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come in the night and left the...

A celebration of a generation of iconic comedies—the raunchy, blockbuster “Frat Pack” films of the early 2000s—and a no-holds-barred look at their rise and fall in Hollywood, the effects of which can still be felt in the fractured media landscape of today If you were a moviegoer in the...

All three series of the comedy about an older couple getting to grips with the absurdities of the modern world, starring Jeremy Front and Rebecca Front - with audiobook-exclusive introductions from Jack & Millie themselves Jack & Millie is the brainchild of Jeremy Front who, with his sister...

They know when you wake. They know what you buy. They know when you’re frightened, lonely, in debt or arguing with your wife.And you gave them almost everything they needed.Daniel Reeve is an ordinary London banker with an ordinary life. What he doesn’t know is that, eight thousand...

AUDIOBOOK INCLUDES TWO EXTRA STORIES AND A CAREFULLY CURATED LIST OF EXQUISITE BABY NAME SUGGESTIONS...! Once upon a time, in a land far away (in fact, in an entirely different tax bracket), there lived some perfectly privileged children... In Fairytales for Privileged Children: Little Red...

When confirmed bachelor Noah Meyers manages to dodge his meddling mother’s repeated attempts to fix him up, he decides to get a dog. He has no idea that his adorable dog will be the one to help him find the right woman with a bit of help from above.."It has been said that sometimes we don't see what's right in front of us. That's Noah. It’s Never Too Late For Love is a timeless and delightful love story filled with laughter and just a hint of magic. If you like to laugh, this book is for you. Enjoy! Romance Finalist Author Academy Awards

Funny things happen to folk but they don't always see the funny side at the time. You will I know! Have a laugh; it's good for you! Your body needs it...

Joshua Cross was supposed to die once. Instead, Heaven made it permanent. Every time Joshua dies, he's dragged back before celestial bureaucracy, handed another bill, and thrown into another century. Ancient Rome mistakes him for a political threat. Viking-age Norway mistakes him for something disturbingly Odin-shaped. Egypt turns him into the most blamed man in the Exodus. Every death adds another legend. Every resurrection adds another fee. Joshua doesn't want to change history. He just wants to survive long enough to stop accidentally becoming part of it.

The transcripts of some of the best calls from The Late Night Alternative, a late night phone in show hosted by Iain Lee & Katherine Boyle. All very silly, some a little rude. Also features an intro written by Bob Mortimer.

THE LONG-AWAITED FINAL NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING BRITISH COMEDY SERIES. In the past twenty-four hours, Tash has experienced more of the 1980s than most people managed in a decade. She believed their adventures were over. She should have known better. It’s July 1985. Dallas is unmissable, and everyone knows a Rik or a Vyvyan. Air Mail can change a life, while somebody has translated the year’s biggest UK chart hit into Spanish. A Smurf is going on holiday. A Wallace Arnold coach is on the wrong side of the road.

In his powerful debut memoir, beloved comedian Murray Hill (Somebody Somewhere) opens up for the first time about how his painful past led to his unwavering commitment to spread joy—one rimshot at a time Murray Hill, the trailblazing comic and self-proclaimed “hardest working middle-aged man...

When a brutal alien invasion turns out to be a galaxy-wide reality TV show, Chad Jenkins, a broken man given wolverine-like regeneration must team up with an android, a sasquatch, and a teen tentacle abomination in order to save humanity from enslavement.Humanity isn’t just expected to survive...

This is the menopause book you buy when everyone’s had enough, including you.If you’re looking for a funny menopause audiobook that’s honest, rude, comforting, and painfully relatable, this is it. It’s often bought when flowers feel pointless and another polite wellness guide would...

The laugh-out-loud second volume of 1987 childhood nostalgia from the author of Snot Rocket!It's the summer of 1987, and the McFlipperties brothers are back doing what they do best: causing absolute, unfiltered childhood chaos.When an argument over renting the weekend movie gets completely...

Surviving Menopause—Without Killing Anyone is a funny, sassy, no-nonsense guide to the hormonal chaos no one adequately warned us about.With humor, personal experience, and easy-to-understand information, Donna Sobredo explores what’s really happening to your body—from hot flashes and...

Everyone is looking for something. Most of them are looking in the wrong place.ZAC is a yoga instructor, a self-appointed financial visionary, and—according to ZAC—a man on the verge of something significant.His wife Suzanne has heard this before.ZAC possesses a rare talent for drawing...