More than 100 contributors, including B.D. Wong, Arthur Laurents, Simon Doonan, Stephen Fry, Marc Shaiman, and Michael Musto share endearing anecdotes and stories about when they, their families, and everyone else knew they were gay.
Both wildly funny and moving -- a journal of Stephen Fry’s bid to rescue Peru’s endangered spectacled bears.Spectacled Bear: The spectacled bear is small and dark, ranging in colour from black to brown, and a few have a reddish tinge. It has distincti
A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best of Fry
Meet Jess, aka Touretteshero, Jess has Tourettes Syndrome, which means she makes sounds and movements over which she has no control. Jess swears - she's one of about 10% of people with Tourettes who do. These excerpts from Jess's personal blog follow a ye
Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.Current PunsWhy does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is the Thief of Bad Gags?MetaphorThe English language
'Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.' Karin SlaughterWhether brand new or steeped in history, real or imagined, libraries feature in everyone's lives. In memoirs, essays and stories that are funny, moving, visionary or ins
