'With spot-on injections of humour and a frequently raised sardonic eyebrow, joy and warmth shine from this fascinating and funny book' Jo BrandA joyful celebration of amateur theatreFrom the Mystery Plays of the Middle Ages, via the Georgian aristocrats who built opulent private theatres in their own homes, to the radical lefties taking political theatre to the streets, this is the story of amateur dramatics in Britain.
That Feeling When your brunch doesn t look good enough to Instagram, you put the wrong emoji at the end of a risky text, The Sims is the closest you ll come to owning a home, and your relationship ends when WhatsApp dies for two hours .
I have the best ghosts, everyone says so President Ebenezer Trump is a rich old fool, whose heart is as small as his hands and whose words are as false as his hair.
In 2014 Cape published Plumdog, a year s worth of entries from Emma Chichester Clark s blog of the same name which records the daily life of Plum, her dog, in Plum s own words and Emma s delightful illustrations.
The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences.
Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in Sky at Night'Just the thing to captivate a bright child or anyone, in fact, who aspires to be the next Tim Peake' Daily TelegraphAN IMAGINATIVE EXPLORATION INTO THE 'WHAT IF' OF SPACE TRAVELImagine taking a hike along the windswept red plains of Mars to dig for signs of life, or touring one of Jupiter s sixty-four moons where you can take photos of its swirling storms.
The Unmumsy Mum Diary is as honest as it is hilarious and a peek into the innermost thoughts of the nation's favourite mum blogger will leave you in no doubt that, on those days when you feel you are not quite cut out for the job, you are most definitely not alone.
***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***From bestselling author and massively popular blogger The Unmumsy Mum comes this hilarious, irreverent and searingly candid compendium of parenting experiences.
Cease I say, cantankerous old fools /Thy deeds hath made our streets a no go zone /No more shall Montagues and Capulets /Enact their West Side Story Sharks and Jets /Or else shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
By the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Cat Out of Hell, a nail-biting tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th-century amateur scientific pioneers who just happen to be cats.
Continuing the tradition of parodying all things sacred, the author of The XXXX Files and PMT takes up the reigns of satire by rewriting the essential 1970s hippy handbook Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure precisely what that entailed Then a dip into Michael Palin's Sackful of Limericks will provide all the answers and a lot of fun besides.
Policing is like this everywhere but not everywhere is Scilly Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor, he has been a valuable member of the police force for over 20 years, 5 of which have been spent policing the quiet Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula.
