“stephen c fry”

'Fresh, filthy, funny and fizzing with ideas' Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a wo... More

'Brilliant' Sunday Times 'Hilarious' Literary Review 'Sublime' Cosmopolitan Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous d-but novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the ... More

'Stephen Fry at his twinkling best' Sunday Times Michael Young is convinced his brilliant history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend Jane. A historian should know better than to imagine that he can predict the future. ... More

"We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and --bandied/Which way please them." ----"The Duchess of Malfi" --by John Webster Everything about Stephen Fry's new novel, including the title, will be a surprise, perhaps even a shock. The only thing that can be guaranteed is that it will be his next... More

Stephen Fry'S The Ode Less Travelled" "provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry. Stephen Fry has always had a secret passion for poetry and he reveals this in this book about how to write poetry. This book will give everybody the tools to write poetry; cover... More

Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you’ve never heard of? It’s a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from a... More

Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in the fascinating book that originally ... More

First published in 1988 and now known as a classic, this text describes, in bench-top detail, techniques for the study of primary cell walls in higher plants.First published in 1988 and now known as a classic. In this book Stephen Fry describes, in bench-top detail, techniques for the study of prima... More

'One of the most poignant, funny, intelligent, frank and horribly addictive books you're likely to read all year' Sunday Telegraph 'Stephen Fry is one of the great originals... This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewild... More