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Global Village Idiot

Dubya, Dunces, and One Last Word Before You Vote

by John O'Farrell ...

In this collection of acid-tongued essays, "the U.K.'s answer to Dave Barry" skewers his American cousins ( Publishers Weekly).Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars' Awards and Britain's finest satirist, John O'Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America's right-wing cabal of dunces, dunderheads, dimwits, and the Big D himself. ... Read more

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In this collection of acid-tongued essays, "the U.K.'s answer to Dave Barry" skewers his American cousins ( Publishers Weekly).Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars' Awards and Britain's finest satirist, John O'Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies, genetic sheep splicers, America's right-wing cabal of dunces, dunderheads, dimwits, and the Big D himself.
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This Is Your Life

A Novel

by John O'Farrell ...

"[A] satire of celebrity culture and the numbing effects of fame" by the international bestselling comedy writer and author of Things Can Only Get Better ( Publishers Weekly).It's a big night at the London Palladium. Jimmy Conway is about to perform his stand-up comedy routine in front of two thousand invited guests and millions more watching the event live on TV. He steps into the spotlights and ... Read more

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"[A] satire of celebrity culture and the numbing effects of fame" by the international bestselling comedy writer and author of Things Can Only Get Better ( Publishers Weekly).It's a big night at the London Palladium. Jimmy Conway is about to perform his stand-up comedy routine in front of two thousand invited guests and millions more watching the event live on TV. He steps into the spotlights and
... Read more
The Best a Man Can Get

A Novel

by John O'Farrell ...

A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and playing trivia games with his underachieving roommates. And when he feels like it, Michael crosses the city and returns home to his ... Read more

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A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and playing trivia games with his underachieving roommates. And when he feels like it, Michael crosses the city and returns home to his
... Read more
May Contain Nuts

A Novel of Extreme Parenting

by John O'Farrell ...

This hilarious novel of a helicopter mom and dad is "a near-flawless caricature of 21st-century upper-middle-class parenthood" ( Publishers Weekly).Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal ... Read more

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This hilarious novel of a helicopter mom and dad is "a near-flawless caricature of 21st-century upper-middle-class parenthood" ( Publishers Weekly).Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal
... Read more
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Whispers: The Complete Series 1-3

A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Game

by Gyles Brandreth ...

Narrated by Gyles Brandreth, Anthony Holden, Stella Duffy, Lucy Moore, Lynne Truss, Jennie Bond, Geoffrey Durham, Charles Collingwood, Penny Junor, Julian Fellowes0, Richard Herring1, Dan Tetsell2, John O’Farrell3, Louise Doughty4, Jenny T Colgan5 ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

Gyles Brandreth presents the quiz show with scandal on its mindHosted by the least discreet man in Britain, broadcaster and national treasure Gyles Brandreth, Whispers is the panel game that celebrates all things scurrilous and salacious. Running the gauntlet of gossip are two teams of two guests, who test their wits and wit as they try to tell the difference between fact, fiction and outlandish ... Read more

$19.11 USD

Gyles Brandreth presents the quiz show with scandal on its mindHosted by the least discreet man in Britain, broadcaster and national treasure Gyles Brandreth, Whispers is the panel game that celebrates all things scurrilous and salacious. Running the gauntlet of gossip are two teams of two guests, who test their wits and wit as they try to tell the difference between fact, fiction and outlandish
... Read more
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The Write Stuff

40 Episodes from the Panel Game of Literary Correctness

by James Walton ...

Narrated by James Walton, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, Simon Brett, Natalie Haynes, Sue Limb, Lynne Truss, John O’Farrell, Mark Billingham, Nigel Williams0 ...

Unabridged

18 hours 38 min

Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James WaltonThe Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.Each episode is themed around an ‘Author of the ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James WaltonThe Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.Each episode is themed around an ‘Author of the
... Read more
Audiobook

Little Blighty on the Down: Series 1-5

A BBC Radio 4 political comedy satire

by Mark Burton, John O’Farrell, Mike Coleman ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Alistair McGowan, Michael Troughton, Jo Kendall, Andrew Sachs, Nick Hancock ...

Unabridged

10 hours 34 min

All five series of the political satirical soap opera set in the strangely familiar village of Little Blighty - plus Christmas Specials'A comic microcosm of a country not a million miles away' Radio TimesLittle Blighty is an idyllic part of the world, with a church, a market, a small school and a pub, The Cock and Bull. Village life is pretty uneventful, though the humdrum happenings include ... Read more

$17.99 USD

All five series of the political satirical soap opera set in the strangely familiar village of Little Blighty - plus Christmas Specials'A comic microcosm of a country not a million miles away' Radio TimesLittle Blighty is an idyllic part of the world, with a church, a market, a small school and a pub, The Cock and Bull. Village life is pretty uneventful, though the humdrum happenings include
... Read more
Audiobook

We’ve Been Here Before: The Complete Series 1 and 2

The BBC Radio Comedy Panel Show

by Clive Anderson ...

Narrated by Clive Anderson, Gyles Brandreth, Jimmy Carr, David Quantick, Simon Brett, Steve Punt, Robin Ince, Maureen Lipman, Arthur Smith, Natalie Haynes0, Richard Herring1, Chris Addison2, John O'Farrell3, Lewis MacLeod4 ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

Clive Anderson and guests poke fun at the past in this panel show with a yesteryear twistOriginally broadcast on Radio 4 in 2003-4, We’ve Been Here Before is the topical, satirical, historical panel game that aims to show beyond all doubt that there’s nothing new in the news. Hosted by award-winning comedian, broadcaster and Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Clive Anderson, it takes a wry, witty look ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Clive Anderson and guests poke fun at the past in this panel show with a yesteryear twistOriginally broadcast on Radio 4 in 2003-4, We’ve Been Here Before is the topical, satirical, historical panel game that aims to show beyond all doubt that there’s nothing new in the news. Hosted by award-winning comedian, broadcaster and Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Clive Anderson, it takes a wry, witty look
... Read more
Audiobook

A Look Back at the Nineties

The Complete Series of the Award-Winning BBC Radio 4 Comedy

by Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Pete Sinclair ...

Narrated by Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins, Chris Barrie, Hugh Dennis, Steve Coogan, Jack Dee, Rory Bremner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Look Back at
Unabridged

2 hours 23 min

The 1993 series that sees Brian Perkins and Kate Robbins 'looking back' at the decade that was yet to happenNewsreader and ‘Godfather of Radio 4’ Brian Perkins and Spitting Image impressionist Kate Robbins star in this Sony Award-winning satirical show, set on New Year’s Eve at the turn of the millennium. As the Nineties come to a close, they recall the tumultuous, earth-shattering events of the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The 1993 series that sees Brian Perkins and Kate Robbins 'looking back' at the decade that was yet to happenNewsreader and ‘Godfather of Radio 4’ Brian Perkins and Spitting Image impressionist Kate Robbins star in this Sony Award-winning satirical show, set on New Year’s Eve at the turn of the millennium. As the Nineties come to a close, they recall the tumultuous, earth-shattering events of the
... Read more
Audiobook

A Look Back at the Future

The BBC Radio 4 Spoof Comedy Series

by Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Pete Sinclair ...

Narrated by Mark Burton, Pete Sinclair, Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins, Jeremy Hardy, John O’Farrell, Griff Rhys Jones, Tony Hawks0, Nigel Planer1, Hugh Dennis2 ...

Series Audiobook 2 - A Look Back at
Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

Brian Perkins and Kate Robbins ‘remember’ 21st Century years yet to happen in this futuristic 1994 comedy showFirst broadcast (with the aid of a crystal ball) in summer 1994, the Sony Award-winning show returns for a second series starring the ‘Godfather of Radio 4’, Brian Perkins, and Spitting Image impressionist Kate Robbins. This time, they turn their comic gaze on six roller-coaster years from ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Brian Perkins and Kate Robbins ‘remember’ 21st Century years yet to happen in this futuristic 1994 comedy showFirst broadcast (with the aid of a crystal ball) in summer 1994, the Sony Award-winning show returns for a second series starring the ‘Godfather of Radio 4’, Brian Perkins, and Spitting Image impressionist Kate Robbins. This time, they turn their comic gaze on six roller-coaster years from
... Read more

The Two of Us

A Novel

by Andy Jones ...

Anyone can fall in love. But not everyone can stay there.Fisher and Ivy have been an item for all of nineteen days. Both of them have been in relationships before, and this time around, they know something is different—that they are meant to be together. The fact that they know little else about each other is a minor detail.But over the next year, in which their lives will change forever, Fisher ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Anyone can fall in love. But not everyone can stay there.Fisher and Ivy have been an item for all of nineteen days. Both of them have been in relationships before, and this time around, they know something is different—that they are meant to be together. The fact that they know little else about each other is a minor detail.But over the next year, in which their lives will change forever, Fisher
... Read more
Look Who's Back

by Timur Vermes ...

Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...

THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD"A brilliant book" RUSSELL KANE"Brilliant and hilarious" KEN FOLLETT"An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page" Caroline Jowett, Daily Express"There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler" Philip Olterman, Observer</e... ... Read more

$5.99 USD

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THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD"A brilliant book" RUSSELL KANE"Brilliant and hilarious" KEN FOLLETT"An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page" Caroline Jowett, Daily Express"There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler" Philip Olterman, Observer</e...
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