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We can all name the classic rock and pop albums of the last fifty years. But what about the great lost albums? The albums that fell behind the back of the musical sofa? The albums that, in a very real sense, have been completely made up by the authors of this book?It took a bestselling crime writer or three to hunt down these fifty lost classics, and an award-winning TV comedy scriptwriter to buy them a pint and make them write it. From the 60s to the 00s, with track listings and full histories, Great Lost Albums reveals the recordings that - just perhaps - never existed, but really should have done. Albums include:· Bob Dylan''s legendary collaboration with Liberace· Joy Division''s ''musical theatre'' period· Coldplay''s IKEA Sessions, including ''Conscious Uncoupling (See Leaflet for Details)'' and ''In my Place (There''s a Lovely HEMNES Shelving System)''· The Who''s magisterial, abandoned rock opera ''Bingo Wizard'' · Kraftwerk''s hastily deleted Christmas album, featuring the melancholic classic ''I Wish to Return this Item''...and many, many more.

''Best quiz book ever''HARRY HILL''Quantick is the Captain Beefheart of quizzing''MARK BILLINGHAM''The antidote to every deathly dull pub quiz you''ve ever been to. This is how a quiz book should be written - where having fun is the most important outcome''GARY WIGGLESWORTH, author of The Book Lover''s Quiz BookDistinctive, unusual, difficult, but spectacularly entertaining, this quiz book is to other pub quizzes what Trivial Pursuit was to Ludo, what The Hitch-Hiker''s Guide to the Galaxy is like to the Rhyl phone directory, and what the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is like compared to a kid''s scooter. Loads better.David Quantick works regularly with Armando Iannucci, including on the new HBO series, Avenue 5. He won an Emmy as part of the writing team on Veep, a BAFTA for Harry Hill''s TV Burp and a Writers'' Guild Award for The Thick of It. For over fifteen years, David has also hosted his own very popular quizzes at festivals, events, pubs, clubs, cinemas and in tents: the quizzes range is broad and the questions are tricky. They''re not about statistics, there''s no sport, the picture rounds are conceptual, and there''s sometimes a round called ''Martin Amis Character or Blur Song''. Each quiz is funny and entertaining even if you don''t know the answers. The quizzes are informative and opinionated. In some ways, they''re like stand-up with questions. This is a book based on David''s excellent live quizzes, described by many people as ''quite difficult''.But they are quizzes. Quite difficult quizzes that tax the brain and make it go in directions it didn''t know it could. That''s not to say the questions are fiendishly scientific and packed with questions about dates and the periodic table. They''re about books and music, movies and actors, strange events and interesting quotes. You don''t leave a Quantick quiz knowing how many times Spurs have won the League, but you may know how many Shirleys have sung a Bond theme or how George V made the front page of The Times.The effectiveness of David''s quizzes is down to their unusual variety and almost stream-of-consciousness leaps and bounds of factual imagination. There''s not even much point in cheating, because the answers often require mental agility as well as just knowing where Calais is (it''s in France, but it wasn''t always, even when it was).David''s quiz book includes twenty-five main quizzes, four Christmas quizzes and four specialist quizzes, so thirty-three quizzes in total. Entertaining in its own right, this is also a conceptual yet very practical guide to staging excellent quizzes of your own.

Twenty brief, barbed and bittersweet musical comedies, written by and starring Richie Webb – including eight Christmas Specials‘Let’s have a standing ovation for the 15 Minute Musical'' The GuardianOozing with satire and sass, these fun-size yet deliciously satisfying musical comedies do for your ears what chocolate does for your taste buds. Based on the lives and careers of well-known public figures, each one takes a politician or VIP who has hit the headlines, and gives them a West End make-over. Their fabricated stories are told in an original, never-heard-before, musical that will have your toes tapping to the rhythm and shoulders shaking to the laughs.All the conventions of a musical are followed (huge production numbers, tender ballads and emotional reprises) – but artistic licence is well and truly taken as celebrities such as David Cameron, Simon Cowell and Morrissey are hilariously lampooned in song. Hear the greatest stories never told (or sung) as Julian Assange is wiki-leaked; Nigel Farage goes to Europe with a Britpop soundtrack; and Barack Obama fights for the American presidency via power ballads and rock anthems. Plus, we go ‘Upstairs Downton’ with the Middletons; and pay homage to Russia’s greatest love machine in an outrageously camp, disco-tastic look at Vladimir Putin...Also featured are all eight Christmas specials from 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, including Jeremy Corbyn Superstar!, Lady and the Trump, Cabarexit, Eurovision Gone Wrong Contest and a Rodgers and Hammerstein-inspired celebration of all things Meghan Markle: The Sixth in Line to be King and I.Winner of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Radio Comedy Award, this hugely entertaining series is written by Dave Cohen, David Quantick and Richie Webb, and stars Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Alex Tregear, Jess Robinson and Pippa Evans.Production creditsStarring Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Alex Tregear, Jess Robinson and Pippa EvansWritten by Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David QuantickProduced by Katie Tyrrell and Richard MorrisProduction co-ordinator: Nick CoupeMusic composed, performed and arranged by Richie WebbMusic production: Matt KatzA BBC Studios ProductionA Right Royal Cockney ChristmasFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 25 December 2012Brian ElliottFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 December 2012The OzfatherFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 December 2012The ReducersFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 28 December 2012Licence to Kil...marnockFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2012Barack of AgesFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 1 January 2013It’s a One-Hit Wonderful LifeFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 24 December 2013Julian and the Assanging Technicolour DownloadFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 25 December 2013The Last Days of FarageFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 December 2013Heaven Knows I''m Middle-Aged NowFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 27 December 2013Half a Sixth FormFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 30 December 2013Ra Ra It''s PutinFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2013Seven BribesFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 28 December 2015Jeremy Corbyn Superstar!First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2015Lady and the TrumpFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 29 December 2016CabarexitFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 30 December 2016The Legend of Holy Superior Mother Theresa May and the Magic Money TreeFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 25 December 2017Dud BrothersFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 December 2017Eurovision Gone Wrong ContestFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2018The Sixth in Line to be King and IFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 1 January 2019© 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

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“...simply the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year and a real treat for crime-fiction fans.” ―Leonard Carpenter, author of the Conan the Barbarian books and Lusitania Lost

The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths is the latest collection from legendary murder mystery editor and writer Maxim Jakubowski. Filled with impossible murders and puzzling plot twists that keep your eyes on the page and brain on the mysteries until the last page.

Clever fictional crime stories. Some of mystery fiction''s most inventive talents from the USA and UK offer a series of brand-new ingenious murder stories that will have you scratching your brow until the very last minute and delighting in Machiavellian solutions. Enjoy the third volume in Mango''s innovative collections of the best crime stories fiction has to offer.

Enigmas and puzzling plot twists. Crime mystery fiction can be full of impenetrable conundrums and endless question marks when the story itself becomes a reality-defying puzzle for the sleuth to solve. A murder has been committed but how could it have happened? Was the room locked from the inside? Why does the body show no sign of violence? Where is the murder weapon?

Fresh innovative murder stories. Maxim Jakubowski’s latest book features never before seen stories by some of the most renowned American and British crime and thriller authors of today, including British Science Fiction Award winner Eric Brown, Derringer Award winner O''Neil de Noux, and multiple CWA Dagger Award winners and nominees.

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From Emmy Award–winning author David Quantick, All My Colors is a darkly comic novel about a man who remembers a book that may not exist, with dire consequences. A bizarre, mind-bending story at the intersection of Richard Bachman, Charlie Kaufman, and Franz Kafka.

It is March 1979 in DeKalb Illinois. Todd Milstead is a wannabe writer, a serial adulterer, and a jerk, only tolerated by his friends because he throws the best parties with the best booze. During one particular party, Todd is showing off his perfect recall, quoting poetry and literature word for word plucked from his eidetic memory. When he begins quoting from a book no one else seems to know, a novel called All My Colors, Todd is incredulous. He can quote it from cover to cover and yet it doesn’t seem to exist.

With a looming divorce and mounting financial worries, Todd finally tries to write a novel, with the vague idea of making money from his talent. The only problem is he can’t write. But the book—All My Colors—is there in his head. Todd makes a decision: he will “write” this book that nobody but him can remember. After all, if nobody’s heard of it, how can he get into trouble?

As the dire consequences of his actions come home to both Todd and his long-suffering friends, it becomes clear that there is a high—and painful—price to pay for his crime.