Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Dr. Grenfell's Parish.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Normal Duncan, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Dr. Grenfell's Parish:Past the Dead Islands, Snug Harbour, Domino Run, Devil's Lookout and the Quaker's Hat-beyond Johnny...

The Fire Hills was written between December 2021 and November 2022.Reflecting the first year of the author’s move to Fairlight in East Sussex, this collection explores new landscapes armed only with a pen and unwarranted optimism.Henry Normal co-wrote and script edited the multi-award-winning Mrs Merton Show and co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. With Steve Coogan, he co-wrote the BAFTA-winning Paul and Pauline Calf Video Dia...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Meet Frankie Carter—single mum, serial over-thinker, and reluctant expert in the fine art of emergency urination. At 32, she’s got enough on her plate juggling a hyperactive six-year-old, a job she only half-likes, and a love life that’s drier than her bathroom floor (on a good day).But Frankie has one little problem. Well, bladder problem. Whether it’s school runs, first dates, or yoga classes, her body has a talent fo...

The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works."Distinctly funny" - Time OutHenry 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 script edited the multi-award-winning Mrs M...

It had been a shitty day at school. 18-year-old Tim Masterson had just gotten home when he heard girlish giggling coming from the other side of the hedgerow that screened off the pool area. He stopped to listen, picking up several female voices, although he couldn't hear what was being said, just the laughter.His curiosity peaked. He quick stepped down the row and around the corner to the back door of the pool house. As he entered, he noticed that the French doors that lead to the ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Greed. Power. Sin.It all comes with the gavel.Blurs the lines between church and state.But the Knightdale Charter of the Satan's Knights MC is my life.And I'd do anything for this club.Like letting the best woman I ever had slip through my fingertips.A sinfully beautiful spitfire, she's my better half in every way.My twin flame. My everything.My biggest regret.But there's no making things right between us.Becau...

Award-winning writer Lemn Sissay explores the idea of uniqueness across different aspects of his life'Creative, surprising - and unique' The TelegraphIf you Google 'Lemn Sissay', all the results will be about him - he's the only person in the world with that name. But that's not the only thing that makes him unique. In this fascinating series, he mixes stand-up, poetry and interviews to explore four more situations in his ...