Smiles: 104 books

Arriving in Limbo after his lonely end in Australia Tony Hancock finds himself in a hospital waiting room very much like the waiting room in The Blood Donor. There he is met with the red tape and bureaucracy that drove him mad in life; a Galton and Simpson-esque tribute to possibly the greatest comedian of his generation.

1948: George Orwell is attempting to finish his final novel - Nineteen Eighty Four - before ill-health forces him off the solated Scottish island he has made his home. Holed up with a shotgun and literary-circle bombshell Sonia Brownell for company he’s desperately hoping for a last chance at happiness. But...

Bombing People was originally staged at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2000 (with a brilliant central performance from Michael Fitzgerald as the lead) and restaged in Sweden in 2006. It concerns Ralph Sherman, an advertising executive, who finds himself in an asylum in the Deep South in 1962 after...

Under pressure to write The Goon Show to end all Goon shows, Spike Milligan is planning his escape from a mental institution dressed in only his pyjamas. After applying to the British Museum to get his marbles back, he starts to lose his grip on reality and threatens to kill all the Goons. Will his...

Working for Mammon is a comedy drama about the London Riots of 2012 when the city seemed to go mad for a week and every shop with training shoes got looted. It concerns a teacher defeated by life who shelters a sixteen-year-old girl on the run from the police and a drug dealer who finds in her joy for life a new meaning to go on.

Waugh in Winter is a piece about Evelyn Waugh, the acerbic right-wing author of Brideshead Revisited. A supposed BBC interviewer from Woman’s Hour has come to interview ‘the cultural dinosaur’. What begins as a useful ploy by Waugh to taunt and sneer at a woman of a lower class becomes an examination...

Baghdad Boogie is set some time during the Iraq Crisis. A long term Canadian captive (Doug) finds himself in the same filth stained room as an oil executive American (Sean). As they face a long period of incarceration together the subject of war and imperialism is raised as Doug begins to unravel...

Reading Gaol concerns Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment in Reading Gaol after his infamous court case, persecuted relentlessly by the sadistic and pious prison governor for refusing to admit he is a common criminal. George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Sid Edward Carson and Lord Alfred Douglas appear as...

The Weight of Days concerns Albert Camus and his political and literary feud with Jean-Paul Sartre over the Algerian War of Independence in 1950’s Paris. A young woman named Edith adds to the flames of jealousy and anger between the two writing masters. Camus was split over Algeria. He knew...

In The VIP, Welsh film and theatre icon Richard Burton is trapped at a fog-bound Heathrow Airport in 1968 shortly after finishing filming Where Eagles Dare. He is haunted by visions of his wives Sybil and Elizabeth Taylor; his drinking companions Dylan Thomas and Peter O’Toole and his miner father....

See Cleese's first audition. Hear the simpering paternalism of David Frost. Be touched by the religious furore over the 'Life of Brian'. Comprehend the true meaning of the coconuts in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'! Pythonesque premiered at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, in August 2009.

When Kali's father said she needed to be disciplined, it was thought that Earth had been dead for many years. Peoples from other planets used it as a garbage dump. They dropped her off to teach her a lesson. She becomes a reluctant visitor from another galaxy that finds humans are still present. Will...

"A collection of two short stories and a poem. "Prison" tells a story of a future place of incarceration that is different from what we in 2014 are use to hearing about. Elander Horbash is a young man in trouble. Expecting a slap on the wrist, he is upset to find a sentence that might change his life....