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The Breakup Monologues
'piercingly honest... witty... wonderful' - The Observer 'My favourite way to learn is when a funny, clever, honest person is teaching me - that's why I love Rosie Wilby!' - Sara Pascoe 'Funny, sweet, entertaining, insightful, life-affirming...' - Viv Groskop 'Hilarious, honest and brilliant' - Helen Thorn 'Rosie Wilby unearths the hope and hilarity that can come from heartbreak' - Abigail Tarttelin In 2011, comedian and podcaster Rosie Wilby was dumped by email... though she did feel a little better about it after correcting her ex's spelling and punctuation. Obsessing about breakups ever since, she embarked on a quest to investigate, understand and conquer the psychology of heartbreak. Thi...
Buying a Property in Italy
This practical and comprehensive guide gives essential information and advice on everything from estate agents and builders to adjusting to the Italian way of life. The 2nd edition has been completely revised and updated.
Alternative Comedy Now and Then
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy. The collection examines the contexts, performances and reception of alternative comedy in order to provide a holistic approach to examining the socio-political impact and significance of alternative comedy from its historical roots through to present day performances. As alternative comedy celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019, critically reflecting on its impact and significance is a timely endeavour. The book adopts a distinctive interdisciplinary approach, synthesizing theory, concepts and methodologies from comedy studies, theatre and performance, communication and media studies, sociology, political sciences and anthropology. This approach is taken in order to fully understand and examine the dynamics and nuances of the alternative comedy movement which would not be possible with a single-discipline approach.
A Book for Her
Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever. A Book For Her details Christie’s twelve years of anonymous toil in the bowels of stand-up comedy and the sudden epiphany that made her, unbelievably, one of the most critically acclaimed British stand-up comedians this decade, drawing together the threads that link a smelly smell in the women’s studies section to the global feminist struggle. Find out how nice Peter Stringfellow’s fish tastes, how yoghurt advertising perpetuates rape myths, and how Emily Bronte used a special ladies’ pen to write Wuthering Heights. If you’re interested in comedy and feminism, then this is definitely the book for you. If you hate both then I’d probably give it a miss. “Christie is adept at turning on a sixpence between being comical, or serious, or both at once, and at pricking her own earnestness.” Telegraph ‘Christie piles derision and tomfoolery upon everyday sexism, while never pretending that jokes alone will solve the problem.’ Guardian
A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up
"This is the first book to give the director's perspective on creating and performing stand-up comedy. Drawing on his own experience of directing stand-up, and interviews with comedians and their directors, Chris Head produces a revealing perspective on the creative process, comic persona, writing stand-up, structuring material and delivering a performance." --back cover.
The Karma Farmers
A genre-defying novel about love, murder and quantum theory. A crime thriller based upon a philosophical conundrum: if science demonstrated that consciousness could survive death, how far would you go to discover if it was true? In an age of divisive belief systems, Bradley Holmeson a thirty-something bookshop manager, is attempting to cure his existential dilemma with quantum physics. Research leads him to a radical theory of consciousness based on the work of real-life theoretical physicist David Bohm, which Holmeson self-publishes in a short, seditious manifesto. He doesn’t want revolution so much as literary notoriety, hoping that success will impress his estranged girlfriend. However, his writing begins to attract the wrong attention... A reluctant philosopher embroiled in an occult experiment, Holmeson meets the violent, the obsessed and the dangerously misguided, armed only with his defensive sarcasm – and all to win back the woman he loves.
The Spectator
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