Frank Skinner is undoubtedly one of the funniest & most successful comedians appearing on British screens. Born Chris Collins in 1957 he grew up in the West Midlands where he inherited his father's passion for football, a West Bromich Albion supporter, along with a liking for alcohol. Expelled from school at 16 Frank held various jobs later going on to gain an MA in English Literature.

Nurturing a serious drink problem from the age of fourteen, Frank eventually turned to Catholicism in 1987 & hasn't had a drink since. He performed his first stand up gig in December 1987. His first television appearance in 1988 met with fits of laughter from the audience & 131 complaints, including one from cabinet minister Edwina Currie.

He met fellow comedian David Baddiel in 1990 & the two went on to share a flat throughout the early 90's & to create the hit TV series Fantasy Football League. Winner of the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival, Skinner's is a unique mixture of laddish & philosophical humour which has won him the prime time ITV show
- The Frank Skinner Show. Here, for the first time, Frank candidly tells us of the highs & lows of his fascinating life & career.






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Over the course of the last ten years, Frank Skinner has toured sell-out st&-up shows, hosted countless TV shows & an award-winning radio programme, written two well-received volumes of memoir, as well as recording a couple of pop songs & learning to play the ukulele. He has been a busy man. Yet, for the last two years, he has also managed to squeeze in a weekly column for The Times. Without fail, he sat down every week & wracked his brain to think of something to write 900 words about. Dispatches From the Sofa is the brilliant result. Alighting on such random topics as the potential demise of Margaret Thatcher, the love-hate relationship with your football club, Mike Read's musical of Oscar Wilde, fat pop stars, Serbian breakfast banter, the pleasures of air-guitar, the banking crisis & the evil phenomenon of Jedward, this is a thought-provoking, wide-reaching, hilarious & self-deprecating collection
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Includes:: the first two chapters from his unpublished novel
- from one of our funniest, quickest & most beloved comedians.



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A five-volume set of the Brummie comedian's live shows. The shows featured comprise ' Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre' (1992), ' Live at the Apollo (1994)', ' Live at the London Palladium (1996)', ' Live in Birmingham' (1998) & ' Live from Birmingham's Nation ...

Frank Skinner's adventures on tour are by turns funny & moving as he meditates on growing older, the terrors & joys of trying to make a live audience laugh night after night & on the nature of comedy itself. This work describes his experience of going back on the road & doing st&-up again, after many years spent working on television. ...

Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner, his first book, was one of the bestselling show business autobiographies of all time
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With its riveting blend of horror & science fiction, Frankenstein has gripped the publics imagination since its publication in 1818. Now Sam Ita, the genius of paper engineering & art, transforms Mary Shelleys tragic masterpiece into an unforgettable, stunning & accessible pop-up book. Ita successfully captures the rich, dark drama of his source through amazing images; the entire story unfolds almost cinematically, in a potent mix of graphic novel panels & spectacular three-dimensional designs. The gothic building where Dr. Frankenstein carries out his sinister experiment rises high on the page; a scaffold, complete with a rope noose, emerges threateningly & the misunderstood, rageful monster looms large & menacing, ready to destroy all in his path. This is pure visual magic & a wonderful way to experience a classic. ...

Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master & shunned by everyone who sees it, follows Dr Frankenstein with murder & horrors to the very ends of the earth. ...

Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator & denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein & all that he holds dear. ...

The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs & animates a creature from dead body parts
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A stunning, enduring horror story about the dangers of Science, as the ambitious Victor Frankenstein takes his powers of ...