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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist

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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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  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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  Thatcher Stole My Trousers - by Alexei Sayle

  £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408864548 | ISBN 10: 1408864541

  'What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in.'  In 1971 comedians on the working men's club circuit imagined that they wo ... 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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