This ambitious novel travels in time through the lives of seven men and women who faced a great evil as children in Derry. Moving back and forth through adolescence and adulthood the narrators confront manifold evils and fears. Peppered with monsters drawn from classic literature and popular culture, this great sprawling work seems to include ...
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme ...
'Stephen Fry is one of the great originals. This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewildering confusion. That so much outward charm, self-awareness and intellect should exist alongside behaviour that threatened to ruin the lives of innocent victims, noble parents and ...
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old ...
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax ...
A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel "The Liar", and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.
For Ned, 1978 seems a blissful year. Handsome, popular, responsible, and a fine cricketer, life if progressing smoothly, if not effortlessly. When he meets Partia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. What if her left-wing parent despise his Tory MP father? Doesn't that just make them star-crossed lovers? And surely, in the end, won't the ...
Michael Young is convinced his brilliant history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend Jane. A historian should know better than to imagine that he can predict the future. Leo Zuckerman is an ageing physicist obsessed with the darkest period in human history, utterly ...
In this wonderfully entertaining travelogue--the tie-in to his new series airing in fall 2008--Britain's favorite funny man offers a wry, insightful, and hilarious look at America from sea to shining sea. Color photos throughout.
A model student at an English public school is falsely accused of smoking pot when the boys who dislike him (practically the whole school) sneak some marijuana into his room. But another compromising object also happens to be in his possession, and when it's discovered, along with the pot, events follow a comically unexpected path that, after a ...
On New Years Day BBC 1 broadcast a programme about Stephen Fry going to Peru to track Paddington Bear's roots and more seriously to rescue a Spectacled bear, one of the world's endangered species. At Easter a follow up programme was shown on BBC 2, they went back, and helped rescue a mate for the young bear they had found on their first trip. ...
Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from ambition to worry, (or from artichokes to woodpeckers) ...
'Hello, I'm Stephen Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on "The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music"...putting some unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.' In his "Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music", Stephen Fry presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of ...
"The River Cafe Cook Book" is one of the most influential cookbooks to have been published this decade and is the winner of both the Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year and BCA Illustrated Book of the Year awards. Acclaimed for their innovative re-interpretation of Italian farmhouse cooking - Cucina Rustica - at the River Cafe restaurant, Rose Gray ...
As a child, Fry led a life that suggested he was more likely to end up in prison (as, in fact, he did for a while before college) than in pictures. After wearing out teachers and parents with his thievery, sexual antics, and general tendency to trouble, Fry matriculated to Pucklechurch Prison and Cambridge before taking off on his illustrious ...
Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in this beautifully illustrated book that accompanies his journey for the BBC1 series. ...
'I have nothing to declare', Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius'. A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man. This new collection of wit and wisdom demonstrates the brilliance of his vision, the audacity of his style. Such is the scope of ...
This book has been written for PACES candidates by a team of authors who are themselves recent PACES candidates. Frustrated by the lack of suitable revision material available, the authors drew upon their own experiences of studying and the exam to create this concise revision aid. Presented in a case study format to match the exam, the book has ...
This is a selection of 4 favourite stories from Hodder's new dramatisation by David Benedictus. With a cast of actors carefully chosen to play Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, plus music and sound effects, this adaptation conveys all the magic of Milne's classic stories.
This oversized, shaped board book features Emily Elizabeth narrating the story of how Clifford helps his fellow Birdwell Islanders. Full color. 5 spreads.
In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast In which Tigger is unbounced In which Eeyore finds the Wolery and Owl moves into it In which Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place
A selection of six stories from the dramatisation by David Benedictus. A cast of actors play Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, and there is music and sound effects.
A compilation of the best sketches and moments from all three of the Fry and Laurie TV series. Sketches include "Gordon and Stuart Eat Greek", "Jeremiah Beadle", "Flushed Grollings", "Amputated Genitals", "The Ass Kicker's Song" and "The Red Hat of Patferrick", plus a lot of silly vox pop snippets.
'Hello, I'm Stephen the Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on "The Incomplete and Utter History of Classic Music"...putting some unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.' In his "Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music", Stephen Fry presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of ...
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