'A wonderful self-portrait of a family with autism at its heart. Uplifting and grounded, frank and encouraging, serious and funny, A Normal Family affirms that there is life after an ASD diagnosis - an atypical life, yes, but an abundant and nourishing life just the same' David Mitchell, author of THE REASON I JUMPJohnny is nineteen. He likes music, art and going to the beach. He is also autistic - in his case tha...

Written between August 2017 and January 2019, these poems are concerned with the search for meaning, identity and truth, and other foolhardy adventures.An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal…Henry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017...

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers.First published by Five Leaves in 2016, Staring Directly at the Eclipse is revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018."Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines" - The Guardian"The Alan...

Travelling Second Class Through Hope contains seventy poems personally selected by the author from his early works and a Foreword by Lemn Sissay.Better known as co-writer of award-winning TV shows and films as The Royle Family, The Mrs Merton Show, The Parole Officer, Coogan's Run and Paul Calf, and producer of, amongst many others, Oscar-nominated Philomena, Gavin and Stacey, Moone Boy, Uncle and Alan Partridge, Henry Normal started his writing career as a poet.Born in Not...

A children's Bible that takes its scholarship as seriously as its storytelling.Featuring the voices of 55 biblical scholars, theologians, and storytellers from around the world, God's Stories as told by God's Children is a beautifully illustrated storybook Bible that integrates biblical scholarship into engaging storytelling.A library, not a book.A conversation, not a monologue.A collection of wisdom

The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020.These poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we’d usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Distinctly funny" - Ti...

This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017.The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions."Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations" - The StageHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a spe...

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal’s first all new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about.Henry Normal was born in St Annes, Nottingham, in 1956. He now lives in Brighton with his wife the screenwriter Angela Pell, and their son Johnny. Henry performs poetry at literature festivals around the UK, was recently given a Honorary Doctorate of letters by...

Your editor sends you to Australia on an assignment to investigate the weird world of zombie tourism. You are loaded onto a bus with a bunch of sweaty backpackers and taken deep into Australia's undead wasteland.What will you find out there?Can you even survive?You choose where the story goes in this rude and crude zombie comedy adventure game book.Will you join a German zombie killing cult?Shag an Australian yobbo?Or lead a small team of survivo...

Introduction“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest HemingwayThis book is a compilation of my writings. Some will be good, some not so great. This book may bring tears, or it may bring happy feelings. How you see it is up to you.A lot of work went into making this book just the way I wanted it. But in the end it was all worth it, no question.These are my thoughts, my feelings, my ins...

An all-new collection written between June 2020 and March 2021."Finally, a collection of poetry about joy, positivity and optimism, before I die unloved and forgotten." - Henry Normal.Henry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television.Henry co-wrote and scr...

Same great concept. Same great text. Now repackaged for adults so that no one need know you are reading a kid's Bible.But not just any kid's Bible: Featuring the voices of 55 biblical scholars, theologians, and storytellers from around the world, God's Stories as told by God's Children integrates the best in biblical scholarship with engaging storytelling to show readers that the Bible is:A library, not a book.A conver...