Alex Kershaw
The Bedford Boys

The astonishing true story of twenty-one young men who were killed during the first minutes of D-Day and the friends and families they left behind in the small town of Bedford. No other town in America suffered a greater loss in one day. An unforgettable story of triumph, courage and tragedy, based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives as well as diaries and letters.

• Alex Kershaw's remarkable book brings to vivid, heartbreaking life this hitherto untold story.

Griff Rhys-Jones
Semi-Detached

From birth through bell-bottoms to the BBC. Semi-Detached is Griff Rhys Jones's own account of his ordinary suburban childhood; of adolescent scraps and scrapes; of coming of age in the 1960s and 70s; of family and university life; and of times lost or at least fuzzy around the edges. It's a powerful, moving and above all touchingly funny memoir of how one of the nation's most popular comics and personalities got from there to here.

'Corking. This is Tizer with Rosie' - Spectator

On the verge of being taken down for one of the biggest bank heists the state has ever seen, Parker runs right into the barrel of a gun. An angry recluse with only a parrot for company, Tom lindahl saves Parker from the police dogs, but enmeshes him in a long line of highly dangerous, but seriously profitable jobs. lindahl is a man driven by a thirst for revenge. A whistleblower whom nobody heard, lindahl plans to rob them of their lucre - and he needs Parker's help.

'Bill Dufris' performance is excellent' - Audio File