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Penguin to publish 'definitive annotated edition' of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch
Penguin Modern Classics is to publish a "definitive annotated edition" of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, one of his Discworld novels.
Lauren Brown, The Bookseller, 11th March 2025Mark Steel: The Leopard In My House review
From reading The Leopard In My House, Mark Steel's uncompromising account of his punishing encounter with throat cancer, you might expect him to be a diminished force on stage. The book describes in vivid detail how the treatment savaged his epiglottis, leaving him unable to speak, eat or drink while sapping him of every last scrap of energy. Yet 18 months after his diagnosis, his voice and his passion are undimmed.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th March 2025Monty 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 2025