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Monty Python role-playing game launched
A new tabletop game has been launched based on the troupe's comedy, called Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme.
Chortle, 9th March 2025Sphere snaps up Fergus Craig's "riotously fun cosy crime novel" about retired serial-killer
Sphere Fiction has signed Everyone In My Retirement Home Thinks I Killed Someone by author Fergus Craig.
Heloise Wood, The Bookseller, 5th March 2025The Leopard In My House by Mark Steel review
In this forthright account of his diagnosis and treatment, Steel wrings humour from the horror while honouring friends found and lost - and the significance of the NHS.
Alex Clark, The Guardian, 3rd March 2025Don't Make Me Laugh by Julia Raeside review
The relationship between a predatory male comedian and a female producer rings true in this darkly funny debut.
Ella Risbridger, The Guardian, 26th February 2025Picnic On Craggy Island by Lissa Evans review
Although infuriating at times in its lack of depth or detail, the book does at least capture the singular, loveable madness that makes Father Ted so revered.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 20th February 2025