A Moonless Night was written between December 2022 and December 2023.“Poetry about embracing darkness, finding light, and exploring the depths of my lack of substance.” Henry NormalBorn in St Ann’s, Nottingham, in 1956, Henry Normal now lives in East Sussex with screenwriter Angela Pell and their son, Johnny.Henry performs poetry at Literature Festivals and theatres around the UK and regularly posts on the internet. He has been awarded honorary degrees by both Notti...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Jenny in the Real World is a hilarious and heartwarming story about Jenny, a 27-year-old woman who finally escapes the family home, only to find herself in a small granny annex, jobless, and freshly dumped. As she stumbles through one disaster after another, from disastrous dates to career misadventures, Jenny is determined to get her life together, even if it means navigating adulthood one hilarious mishap at a time. Packed wi...

The Beauty Within Shadow is narrated by Henry Normal.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

Henry Normal's first poetry book 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. Narrated by the author."Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines" - The Guardian"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The ScotsmanHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the M...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kate and Adam have found The One. No, not each other—they’ve been married for years and can barely agree on what to watch on Netflix. But the house? That crumbling Georgian beauty in the village with the ivy-covered walls and the duck pond out front? It’s their dream. Or at least, it would be… if they could ever actually move in.One year on, they’re still stuck in their tiny flat, surrounded by half-packed boxe...

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" -...

Is transforming your life an overnight endeavor? Absolutely not!Each alteration, no matter how small, demands time, unwavering dedication, and a relentless pursuit of progress. Humans, creatures of habit, find comfort in routine, with habits etching themselves deeply into our psyche—a phenomenon intricately woven within the fabric of our brains, as we'll explore later in these pages.Yet, despite this intuitive understanding, many of us entertain the illusion that monumental...

High above the valley, where cliffs meet the sky, a golden eagle moves through a world shaped by wind, weather, silence, and stone.A nature writer and documentary filmmaker arrives in the mountains with a camera and a notebook, hoping to observe the eagle in flight. But the mountains offer no immediate answers. Some mornings, the sky remains empty. On others, the eagle appears only as a distant shadow, riding invisible currents or struggling against snow and wind.

Henry Normal uses poetry, storytelling and comedy to tackle big subjects with his trademark humour. This collection includes five of his funny and moving BBC Radio 4 shows:A Normal Family is centred around Henry's son, Johnny, who was diagnosed with autism. Through stand-up and poetry, Henry explores what this means for Johnny, for himself, and for his wife, Angela.A Normal Life continues to draw on Henry's experiences of bringing up a chil...

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...

A premature collection of posthumous poems.“He loves the little things in life because he knows that really they are the big things.” The i"The funniest man you've never heard of." The TelegraphHenry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature Festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television....

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