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Porridge (The Best of British Comedy)

By Richard Webber

The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

By Skaife, Christopher

Men Who Would be King

By Nicole LaPorte

Woman's Hour: Words from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women

By Maloney, Alison, Murray, Jenni

Our Town and other plays (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

By Wilder, Thornton, Thornton Wilder

Barry Plays: 1: Boss Grady's Boys; Prayers of Sherikin; White Woman Street; Steward of Christendom

By Sebastian Barry

'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)

By David Thomson

The "Wizard of Oz" (BFI Film Classics)

By Rushdie, Salman, Bragg, Melvyn, Maltby, Richard

Blondin: Hero of Niagara

By Boning, Richard A.

Romantic Comedy

By Curtis Sittenfeld

The Tufton Hill Lot

By Paul Groves, Nigel Grimshaw

Beyond Uhura

By Michelle Nichols

(Drag) Queen of Scots: The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from the UK's favourite drag queen

By Lawrence Chaney

Spliffs 3: The Last Word in Cannabis Culture?

By Tim Pilcher

Jumpers

By Tom Stoppard

The Book of the Archers

By Greene, Patricia, Collingwood, Charles, Niklaus, Hedli

Lyttelton's Britain: A User's Guide to the British Isles as heard on BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

By Pattinson, Iain

Golden Nuggets: from Sir John Templeton

By John Marks Templeton

The Hours

By David Hare

Dear Alec: Guinness at 75

By RONALD HARWOOD

Bond on Bond: The Ultimate Book on Over 50 Years of 007

By Moore, Roger

Yes, Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister by the Rt Hon. James Hacker MP - Volume Two

By Lynn, Jonathan, Lynn, Jonathan, Jay, Antony

What’s that Building?: Band 07/Turquoise (Collins Big Cat)

By Richard Platt, Pulsar Studio, Collins Big Cat, Platt, Richard

A Local Book for Local People

By League of Gentlemen

Born A Crime

By Trevor Noah

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion (The Chronicles of Narnia)

By Moore, Perry

THE COMPULSIVE SPIKE MILLIGAN

By Milligan

The Art of Mr. Peabody & Sherman

By Jerry Beck, Tiffany Ward, Rob Minkoff

Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow?: The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend

By Bob Cryer

American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film

By David Seed