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  Rising to the Surface - by Lenny Henry

  £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571368792 | ISBN 10: 0571368794

  The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.  ‘Moving and ebullient’ Daily Telegraph ‘Relayed with characteristic exuberance and self-deprecation’ Guardian  Rising to the Surface tra ... more

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  Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood - by Jasper Rees

  £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409184119 | ISBN 10: 1409184110

  '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 bitt ... more

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  The Squire of Knotty Ash and his Lady: An Intimate Biography of Sir Ken Dodd - by Tony Nicholson with Lady Anne Dodd

  £17.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781914227004 | ISBN 10: 191422700x

  This book, thanks to Ken's wife, Lady Dodd, gives the first ever in-depth account of his astonishing story, and unravels 'the other Ken Dodd' - the fascinating, kind and complicated private man with whom she spent her life. Sir Ken Dodd was a nationa ... more

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  The Squire of Knotty Ash and his Lady: An Intimate Biography of Sir Ken Dodd - by Tony Nicholson with Lady Anne Dodd

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  Tall Tales and Wee Stories - by Billy Connolly

  £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529361360 | ISBN 10: 1529361362

  In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.  When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played the banj ... more

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  Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens - by Eddie Izzard

  £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781405922012 | ISBN 10: 140592201x

  A memoir of love, death and jazz chickens, Eddie Izzard's fabulous Believe Me is his one and only autobiography...   'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things... that ... more

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  The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Remain Twenty-Something for Ever - by Isy Suttie

  £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781474600880 | ISBN 10: 1474600883

  Isy Suttie - writer, comedian and actress - on not quite being a grown-up "Isy Suttie turns the painful process of growing-up into something laugh-out-loud funny, and for that I could kiss her"(Bryony Gordon, author of The Wrong Knickers) "A cr ... more

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  The What the Frock! Book of Funny Women: Celebrating a Century of Fantastically Funny Women - by Jane Duffus

  £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780957127500 | ISBN 10: 0957127502

  The The What the Frock! Book of Funny Women will neither ask nor answer the question, 'Are women funny?' because of course women are funny. To suggest otherwise is plain silly. This book presumes you know women are funny and simply seeks to confirm t ... more

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  What the **** is Normal?! - by Francesca Martinez

  £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780753555354 | ISBN 10: 0753555352

  What do you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? In a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for mental breakdown, and women over size ten are encouraged to shoot themselves, what the **** do ... more

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  Ken Campbell: The Great Caper - by Michael Coveney

  £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848420762 | ISBN 10: 1848420765

  Book of the Week - BBC Radio 4 The first, authorised biography of the anarchic comic genius, much cherished for his performances on stage and screen.  Ken Campbell (1941–2008) was a one-man whirlwind who tore through the British theatre e ... more

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  Book - by Whoopi Goldberg

  £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780751526332 | ISBN 10: 0751526339

  "Here's where I'm supposed to say all kinds of hip, Whoopi-esque stuff to get you to buy the book... when I tell you in my own inimitable way, how uproarious and provocative this book is, how OUT THERE and cutting edge... Or, I could say things like, ... more

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