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The household staff of Downton Abbey carry out their duties with effortless dignity, finesse and pride.

It's 1924 and there have been many changes in the world of Downton Abbey since we were first welcomed by the family and their servants twelve years ago.

In Matthew Inman's New York Times best selling 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides), samurai sword-wielding kittens and hamsters that love .

Spontaneous, hilarious, irrepressible and, of course, trailblazing - Kenny Everett was revolutionary in television and radio comedy.

SOON TO BE STREAMED ON NETFLIXBy the Baillie Gifford prize-winning and No.

EPISODE 4 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Baxter returns as summer tutor for Clarence s grandson George and plans to weasel his way back into permanent employment.

EPISODE 1 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Clarence has to get his pig eating again or lose the fat-pig prize to his arch nemesis.

Following on from last year s huge Sunday Times bestseller, The Inbetweeners Yearbook, comes The Inbetweeners Script Book, the perfect gift for all die-hard Inbetweeners fan and lovers of fine award-winning literature.

The Trotter family have been pillars of the Peckham community for decades, so when a bin man found this folder of documents at the bottom of the refuse chute in Nelson Mandela Towers and saw that it had official council and even police documents in it, he thought it might be worth something.

Designing and making cars is an expensive thing to do.

Test your knowledge of the last Time Lord and the worlds he s visited in Who-ology, an unforgettable journey through over 50 years of Doctor Who.

Who is The Stig?

Did you know that foreigners who want to live in Britain have to pass a government test to get in?

Ambitious but Rubbish reveals the off-camera secrets behind some of Top Gear s most memorable creations.

Life is full of complications.

For over ten years, Top Gear has been travelling all over Britain in the course of making the world s best programme about cars, driving, and three men in smart-casual clothes shouting at each other.

Nev s unorthodox management style, which involves compulsory sing-a-longs, matchmaking attempts, arm wrestling bouts and the use of very direct language delivered at high volume, often puts him at odds with HR.

With a brand new introduction by Eddie Braben and including never-before-seen materialMorecambe and Wise charmed a nation for decades and at their height commanded TV audiences that could only be matched by the moon landings and the 1966 World Cup final.

Welcome to Pawnee: First in Friendship, Fourth in Obesity.

Modern life is a minefield.

The Doctor has been to Det-Sen Monastery before, and expects the welcome of a lifetime.

'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminating.

Aleksandr Orlov has become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase - Simples!

Micky Flanagan is one of Britain's best-loved cheeky-chappy comedians, thanks to his stand-up routines about how he's gone from growing up in London's East End in the 1970s to his life now in middle-class suburbia.

Well hello to you, Dear Book Peruser and thank you for your kind interest in my book o'Miranda.

Journey from A-Z, playing 26 rounds of Pointless with family and friends and enjoy facts, banter and musings from Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman.

Bad Education, written by and starring Jack Whitehall, follows Alfie Wickers the worst teacher to ever (dis)grace the British Education System, and a bigger kid than the pupils he teaches.

We've all had them, those pointless arguments that are seemingly impossible to solve.

The world is full of pointless things.

From ASBOs to superheroes.

For at least two decades now modern man has been on the brink of a crisis.

Misery Bear is the saddest, loneliest, drunkest bear in the world.

Fawlty Towers was only on our screens for 12 half-hour episodes, but it has stayed in our lives ever since.

Who invented the pub quiz?

Join Ted, the beloved canine star of BBC2's Gone Fishing and bestselling author, as he embarks on a life-changing adventure, and discovers what truly matters to him.

'Uncannily accurate .

Listen up chumps, basically the Vicar asked us to edit the parish newsletter this month, we weren't gonna do it at first cos the vicar said 'I want you to channel your energy into doing something creative', which he knows brings back Kurtan's PTSD cos our old woodwork teacher Mr Perkins used to say it to him all the time, and when Kurtan actually DID channel his energy into something creative he managed to sand down some MDF to make a back scratcher and Darren Lacey pointed at it and laughed and called it an 'abomination to woodwork', which made Kurtan throw a chair across the room in rage and one of the chair legs hit Rob Robinson and left a dent in his forehead.

I was Top Gear's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series.

When a young boy goes missing, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret recipes, supernatural whisking forces and one strange ingredient.

Play Celebrity Juice at home with your very own boardgame in a book!

Emma Kennedy tells you everything you ever wanted to know about THE KILLING - and more.

To everything there is a season.

Do you know someone who is incensed by compulsory tipping?

Have you ever wondered how typewriters can rival commercial radio?

We all know what it means these days to be a grumpy old man, because part of that role is to be outspoken.

First published as Whatever Makes You Happy, the hilarious and moving novel about mothers and their adult sons, now a Netflix original movie starring Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette which has now been viewed on over 27 million accounts worldwideMatt, Daniel and Paul were childhood friends.

Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health.

Whatever word you'd care to apply to 2022, no one can deny it's been eventful.

The hilarious new collection of stories and observations from Jeremy Clarkson - setting our off-kilter world to rights with thigh-slapping wit once again.

Clarkson is back with a brand new book of hilarious stories and observations about our gone-wrong world.