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Brought to you by Penguin.The hilarious No. 1 bestseller by comedian and author of Because of You and According to Yes, Dawn French.Everyone hates the perfect family - so you''ll love the Battles.Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There''s 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he''s quite simply as darling and marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad, who''s just, well . . . Dad.However, Mo is having a crisis. She''s about to do something unusually wild and selfish, which will leave the entire family teetering on the edge of a precipice.Will the family fall?Or will they, when it really matters, be there for each other?A Tiny Bit Marvellous is the number one bestselling novel from one of Britain''s favourite comic writers.© Dawn French 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2010

Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and one of Britain''s best loved comic writers, returns with Oh Dear Silvia, a darkly comic pageturner that will have you hanging on her every word.Who is in Coma Suite Number 5?A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife?All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done exactly what she wants. Until now, when her life suddenly, shockingly stops.Her past holds a dark and terrible secret, and now that she is unconscious in a hospital bed, her constant stream of visitors are set to uncover the mystery of her broken life. And she must lie there, victim of the beloveds, the borings, the babblings and the plain bonkers.Like it or not, the truth is about to pay Silvia a visit. Again, and again and again...Oh Dear Silvia is the brand new novel from one of Britain''s most loved comic writers and the number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous. Praise for Dawn French:''Extremely funny'' Sunday Times''A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner'' Mail on SundayDawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of this country''s most long running, cherished and celebrated shows, including French and Saunders, The Comic Strip Presents. . ., Murder Most Horrid, The Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem, Lark Rise to Candleford, and more recently, Roger and Val Have Just Got In.Her bestselling memoir, Dear Fatty, was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, was also a great success, going straight to No.1.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of According to Yes, the hilarious new novel by Dawn French. Read by Dawn French, Jennifer Woodward, Garrick Hagon, Christopher Thompson and Tom Judd. The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy - otherwise known as Manhattan''s Upper East Side - has its own rigid code of behaviour. It''s a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family. Emotional displays - unacceptable. Unruly behaviour - definitely not welcome. Fun - no thanks.This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham''s kingdom. A beautifully-displayed impeccably-edited fortress of restraint. So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn''t read the rule book.For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone decides to start saying yes?

This is Dawn French''s fabulous new non-fiction book for 2017, and it''s totally interactive: take a lovely ramble through the year together with Dawn. Think of it as Dawn''s diary, personalized by you . . . perfection.

''A manual for how to be a good person, make peace with your life and create your own happiness'' Sunday Times

I can''t count the amount of diaries I have crammed full with entries in January, that then fizzle out as the other months pile in. One of my teenage diaries has fulsome fizzing reports of every single conversation, thought and feeling about every friend, every crush, every meal, every argument until mid-March, when the entry on the 18th simply reads,

''Washed hair.''

Thank god, this isn''t that. This book is a way for us to tell the story of a year together. Feel free to write your appointments in it, lists, thoughts and reminders of, say, who to kill, and when, and in what order. But I''ve also written about age and life as I see it, through the seasons and the months, and I''ve added some places for you to join me in some fun and some thinking. By the end of the year, I am hoping you will have a fatter, scruffier book that is written by me but totally personalized by you.

Come on in. The paper is lovely . . .

''Wreck This Journal meets Dawn French''s ruminations on the seasons, ageing and more - this is a companion piece to help you through life itself. A very good idea'' Stylist

Brought to you by Penguin.A SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain''s best-loved comedians and Women''s Prize longlisted author, Dawn French.Dawn French is one of the greatest comedians of our time with a career that has spanned nearly four decades. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here, she describes the journey that would eventually establish her as a perhaps unlikely, but nevertheless genuine, national treasure.As part of the much loved duo French and Saunders, Dawn helped create a repertoire of brilliantly observed characters, impersonating everything from Madonna and Harry Potter to The Exorcist. Dawn''s iconic role in the Vicar of Dibley showcased not only her talent but also her ability to take a controversial and topical issue and make it mainstream - and very funny.From her early years as an RAF child and her flat-sharing antics with Jennifer Saunders, to her outspoken views on sizism and her marriage to Lenny Henry, Dear Fatty chronicles the extraordinary and hilarious rise of a complex, dynamic and unstoppable woman.© Dawn French 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2008