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*Nominated for Best Book at the 2025 Chortle Awards* 'Outstanding, I want to press it into the hands of every newly diagnosed person' Fern Brady 'Like a Martian's guide to living on Earth. Funny, enlightening and gobsmacking' Frank Skinner 'A hilarious, crystal-clear guide to autism' Phil Wang...

Top stand ups and great buds Glenn Moore and Pierre Novellie join forces to bring you hilarious conversation and funny little chunks they have found or made. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do a mercenary and a mortician have in common? Dead. Freaking. Bodies. Callum Walker kills people for a living. Although he doesn't get a say in who his boss puts on his list, he likes to hunt people who hurt children in his spare time. After a misunderstanding that leads Callum to believe...

Friends, comedians and avid gamers Glenn Moore, Sarah Keyworth and Pierre Novellie sit down each week to discuss gaming. Button Boys offers unheard of recommendations, their worst gripes, nostalgia and much more in each episode plus bonus content for their dedicated Patreon supporters. If you love gaming and comedy you've come to the right place.

Everyone Lilith touches dies. She has lived her entire life running from the grim reaper, who has followed her relentlessly since birth. He watches her from the shadows, and though he seems set on stealing everyone from her life, he refuses to allow her to take her own. When Lilith gets a job as a bartender at a Voodoo Steakhouse, her shadowy demon companion leaves her in peace for four blissful years. It isn’t until one of her colleagues passes away in a horrible accident, that she begins to fear he has returned, and this time, she may not be able to escape him.

Petit Louis a fabriqué un oiseau. C'est une simple marionnette, tout en bois, mais, pour Petit Louis, c'est Le Bel Oiseau. Comme un véritable oiseau, il veut le faire voler. Pour réussir ce rêve fou, longtemps, Petit Louis va travailler sa marionnette.

Un bûcheron a décidé d'abattre L'arbre roux, un tout jeune arbre joyeux et animé. Le corbeau, l'écureuil, les abeilles et tous les animaux qui l'habitent laisseront-ils la hache trancher son jeune bois ? Pour aider les animaux dans leur lutte contre le bûcheron, les enfants entreront dans le jeu, se faisant tour à tour corbeaux, écureuils, abeilles, inventant mille ruses et profitant de leur nombre… réussiront-ils à vaincre le bûcheron ?

Greg Wise reads Pierre Boulle's chilling, iconic novel about a nightmare world where apes rule over men. In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, except that on Soror humans behave like animals and are hunted by a civilised race of primates.

The findings of historians and archaeologists open a thrilling world of discovery as they bring their methods and insights to the iconic stories of the Bible. These 24 content-rich lessons take you on a multidimensional journey through the Bible, from Genesis to the Crucifixion, seen through the lens of the latest historical and archaeological research.

Une échappée belle de Paris à Prague, d’un studio de radio à des ruelles hostiles, d’un cachot glacé à une académie de billard, d’une école de bonnes sœurs aux bureaux obscurs de la République. Chacun des Pelletier, à son heure, devra choisir entre son intérêt et son devoir, et pour certains entre la raison du cœur et la raison d’État. Un dilemme parfois déchirant, sauf pour le chat Joseph, qui lui a choisi depuis longtemps.

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant...

Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis...

Tout commence par un incendie, un bébé et... un sanglier. Paris est transformé par des travaux titanesques, le cœur d’un homme est écartelé, le monde rural menacé, des femmes sortent de l’oubli, et les membres de la famille Pelletier, toujours plus proches de nous, marchent inexorablement vers leur destin. Au terme d’un effroyable dilemme moral, ce sera l’effondrement ou l’apothéose. Par bonheur, le chat Joseph veille encore.

Many dream of dropping everything and just traveling around the world. It's a common dream, but few imagine embarking on that journey by bicycle. Exposed to the elements, legs burning, all your possessions strapped to you and your bicycle - it doesn't paint a relaxing picture, but this is just what Pierre-Yves Tremblay did.

Finn Summers can't feel fear. This causes Finn to take unnecessary risks—especially when it comes to his favorite sport in the world: Surfing. When Finn hears a rumor about a beach called Leviathans—located in the small town of Stars Cove, California—the promise of twenty-five-foot swells is too exciting for him to pass up. However, Leviathan's beach has a dark history.

When Marco Pierre White's mother died when he was just six years old, it transformed his life. Soon his father was urging him to earn his own keep, and by 16 he was working in his first restaurant. White went on to learn from some of the best chefs in the country, such as Albert Roux, Raymond Blanc and Pierre Koffmann. He survived the intense pressure of hundred-hour weeks in the heat of the kitchen, developed his own style and then struck out on his own.

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre will remind you of' Sunday Times It is 1952 and the Pelletier family have returned to a life in France... Patriarch Louis...

There’s more to winning battles than fists and feet For world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism—it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years...

The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturing and exporting artisanal soaps. He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son, Jean, but Jean doesn't have the sharpness or aptitude for such an enterprise. After nearly running the company into the ground, Jean marries a money-grubbing young woman who quickly makes him miserable, and they emigrate to Paris. But there's another reason Jean must leave - he has committed a terrible crime.

Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War. A Frenchman who flew with the RAF, he survived over 420 operational sorties, shooting down scores of enemy aircraft while friends and comrades lost their lives in the deadly skies above Europe. The Big Show, his extraordinary account of the war, has been described as the greatest pilot's memoir of WWII.