“stephen 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

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

Over the years, when not wearing his acting, television or novelist trousers, Stephen Fry has written many articles for magazines, newspapers and radio. Collected together in this excellent volume, the reader will find the print debut of Professor Donald Trefusis; a previously undiscovered Sherlock ... 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

In this wonderfully entertaining travelogue--the tie-in to his new series airing in fall 2008--Britain's favorite funny man offers a wry, insightful, and hilarious look at America from sea to shining sea. Color photos throughout.... More

This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with bright, beautiful Portia, his father an influenti... More