David Baddiel

From the bestselling author of Jews Don t Count

From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time - 1,001 years ahead, to be precise... The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can't even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside.Until the day that Pip explores a glowing ring in a lab and finds herself in a warehouse, in 2019. Where she meets boy-inventor Rahul - who is also lonely and bored. Together, Rahul and Pip are no longer lonely.But they have a whole load of new problems, including hiding talking animals from Rahul's parents, and finding a way back to the future. Plus - just maybe - saving the world... Future Friend is a terrifically entertaining time-slip adventure that combines action, laugh-out-loud humour and the importance of friendship, in a story that asks the question - what would happen if your best friend came from the future?

A funny exciting David vs Goliath adventure with a heart warming father son relationship perfect for fans of Danny the Champion of the World Millions and Ratatouille The story of one boy and his brilliant burgers Benny Burns spends every weekend helping his dad by working at their burger van parked outside the local football ground And when Benny finds his grandfather s old recipe book and begins following its instructions he starts cooking INCREDIBLE food so good in fact that he attracts the unwanted attention of fast food giant Bonkers Burgers and its CEO Bodley Bonkers To Bodley Benny and his burgers are a threat that must be eliminated by any means necessary And so along with his dad and his two best friends Jasper and Mina Benny must find a way to defeat Bonkers Burgers help rescue his dad s business and share his passion for cooking with the world a mission that leads to him competing with the world s greatest chef to cook the best burger

Brilliantly accomplished and critically acclaimed novel of Nazi Germany and the plight of internees in wartime Britain by writer and comedian David Baddiel.

Special 10th anniversary edition with bonus contentThis special edition marks ten years of the brilliantly funny childrens novel. The Parent Agency is an epic wish-fulfilment adventure for every child and for the child in everyone.Barry said, a third time, I wish I had better parents! And then suddenly the entire room started to shakeBarry Bennett hates being called Barry. In fact its number 2 on the list of things he blames his parents for, along with 1) being boring and 3) always being tired.But there is a world, not far from this one, where parents dont have children. Thats far too random for something so big and important. In this world, children are allowed to choose their parents.For Barry Bennett, this world seems like a dream come true. Only things turn out to be not quite that simple

A hilarious rollercoaster ride of pure entertainment for 9+ readers everywhere, Birthday Boy is the new Baddiel Blockbuster: featuring Davids inimitable and award-winning combination of wish-fulfilment, heart and hilarity, all brought to life by regular collaborator Jim Fields witty, stylish illustrations.What if it was every day?This is the story of Sam Green, who really, really, really loves birthdays. He loves the special breakfasts in bed. The presents. The themed parties. Blowing out the candles on his cake. Everything.He is so excited about his 11th birthday, in fact, that he wishes it was his birthday every day.So, at first, its quite exciting when his birthday happens again the next morning. And again. And again. And againBut its not long before things start to go wrong. Soon, disaster strikes, threatening something Sam loves even more than birthdays.Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for

Genuinely one of the funniest books I have ever read I wept with laughter HADLEY FREEMAN Baddiel has made true art out of experience A masterpiece SATHNAM SANGHERA Laugh out loud funny The r

Del autor de THE PARENT AGENCY llega una emocionante, divertida y emocionante nueva aventura. Fred y Ellie son gemelos. Pero no idénticos (porque eso es imposible para un niño y una niña). Les gusta las mismas cosas, sobre todo los videojuegos. Los que son muy buenos. Ellos no son tan buenos, sin embargo, en muchas otras cosas - como, por ejemplo, el futbol, o hacer frente a los matones de la escuela. Se encuentran con el hombre misterioso, que les envia un controlador de juegos de video, que no se parece a cualquier otro controlador que han visto nunca. Y no controla cualquiera de sus juegos habituales...

* Second novel from TV writer/comedian and novelist - and again, a bitter-sweet romantic tragicomedy.

1940. Una conspiración y un triángulo amoroso se entrelazan durante uno de los episodios menos conocidos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: la reclusión de ciudadanos alemanes en campos de internamiento britanicos para prisioneros de guerra. "No se puede dejar de leer: una trama inteligentemente construida que no pierde ni un apice de su sentido del humor ni de su fluido estilo"The GuardianUn lucido relato sobre el secreto en tiempos de guerra, una novela bien escrita, interesante y solida, con mucho para valorar y disfrutarThe Daily Telegraph

A funny, exciting, David vs Goliath adventure with a heart-warming father-son relationship perfect for fans of Danny the Champion of the World, Millions, and Ratatouille. The story of one boy and his brilliant burgers! Benny Burns spends every weekend helping his dad by working at their burger van, parked outside the local football ground. And when Benny finds his grandfathers old recipe book and begins following its instructions, he starts cooking INCREDIBLE food so good, in fact, that he attracts the unwanted attention of fast food giant Bonkers Burgers! and its CEO, Bodley Bonkers. To Bodley, Benny and his burgers are a threat that must be eliminated by any means necessary. And so, along with his dad and his two best friends, Jasper and Mina, Benny must find a way to defeat Bonkers Burgers, help rescue his dads business, and share his passion for cooking with the world a mission that leads to him competing with the worlds greatest chef to cook the best burger.

One of the funniest books I have ever read HADLEY FREEMAN A masterpiece SATHNAM SANGHERAThe read of the summer THE SUNDAY TIMESBrilliant funny and moving ADAM KAY A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mothers idiosyncratic sex life, and his fathers dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny. On the surface, David Baddiels childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman. Davids detailing of the affair including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings leads to the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack Niklaus and Erica Jong. Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his familys past, his fathers memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his mothers affair, there is both comedy and poignancy to be found: laughter is a constant presence, capable of transforming the darkest of experiences into something redemptive. My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiels candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.An extraordinary, hilarious book OBSERVER I lost count of how many times I gasped CAITLIN MORANOutrageously funnyprofoundly thoughtful THE SUNDAY TIMES Explosively funny, brilliantly written DAVID WALLIAMS Infernally funny HOWARD JACOBSON A triumph NINA STIBBEBaddiel has done his parents proud GUARDIANHad me howling PANDORA SYKES

Barry Bennet en a marre. Marre de sappeler Barry, déjà. Encore une brillante idée de ses parents, ces gens ennuyeux et toujours fatigués. Et la liste des reproches quil a à leur faire est longue ! Ma

Barry Bennet en a marre. Marre de sappeler Barry, déjà. Encore une brillante idée de ses parents, ces gens ennuyeux et toujours fatigués. Et la liste des reproches quil a à leur faire est longue ! Ma

Sam Green tiene muchísimas, pero muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas ganas de que llegue el dia de su undecimo cumpleaños.O sea, muchisimas.Esta impaciente. De hecho, desearia que todos los dias fueran su cumpleaños.EL CUMPLEAÑOS DE SAM ESTABA A PUNTO DE TERMINAR.¡Y ENTONCES LA VIO!¡UNA ESTRELLA FUGAZ! ¡Grandisima, surcando el cielo!Era impresionante, como un cometa, o un cohete, o fuegos artificiales.Era magnifica, preciosa. Entonces recordo lo que su madre le habia dicho.Si ves una estrella fugaz, puedes pedirle un deseo. Deberias pedirle un deseo.Asi que dijo en voz alta:¡Deseo que todos los dias sean mi cumpleaños!En ese preciso momento la estrella parecio brillar con una luz aun mas fuerte con un brillo extra durante un segundo y empezo a caer en linea rectaAsi que, al principio, le hace muchisima ilusion que el dia siguiente tambien sea su cumpleaños.Y el siguiente.Y el siguiente.Pero a veces hay que tener cuidado con los deseos que se pidenAbrid este libro y encontrareis una montaña rusa de diversion en estado puro.

Sam Green tiene muchísimas, pero muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas, muchísimas ganas de que llegue el dia de su undecimo cumpleaños.O sea, muchisimas.Esta impaciente. De hecho, desearia que todos los dias fueran su cumpleaños.EL CUMPLEAÑOS DE SAM ESTABA A PUNTO DE TERMINAR.¡Y ENTONCES LA VIO!¡UNA ESTRELLA FUGAZ! ¡Grandisima, surcando el cielo!Era impresionante, como un cometa, o un cohete, o fuegos artificiales.Era magnifica, preciosa. Entonces recordo lo que su madre le habia dicho.Si ves una estrella fugaz, puedes pedirle un deseo. Deberias pedirle un deseo.Asi que dijo en voz alta:¡Deseo que todos los dias sean mi cumpleaños!En ese preciso momento la estrella parecio brillar con una luz aun mas fuerte con un brillo extra durante un segundo y empezo a caer en linea rectaAsi que, al principio, le hace muchisima ilusion que el dia siguiente tambien sea su cumpleaños.Y el siguiente.Y el siguiente.Pero a veces hay que tener cuidado con los deseos que se pidenAbrid este libro y encontrareis una montaña rusa de diversion en estado puro.

Like most people, Vic Mullan - once described by his best friend Joe as a man whose sense of social responsibility is exhausted by pulling over to let an ambulance by - can remember where he was and what he was doing on the day of Princess Dianas death. Yes, he can remember it particularly well: he was at home, beginning an affair with Emma, Joes wife.The opening sections of David Baddiels second novel chart the history of an intense and passionately sexual liaison set against the background of the most hysterical time in recent memory. But as the months wear on, and life and love return to normal, so things become more complex between Vic and Emma. And then, tragedy - a real, local, small-scale tragedy, as opposed to a national, iconic, mythological one - intervenes.Part-satire, part-love story, part-whodunnit, and part-meditation on the nature of sex and death, WHATEVER LOVE MEANS confirms Nick Hornbys assertion that David Baddiel has gone straight into the First Eleven of young contemporary British novelists.

The Sunday Times bestselling novel from comic genius David BaddielGabriel Jacoby cant get to sleep. In fact, he cant get anywhere at all, either in his Triumph Dolomite or his life. Everything around him, from his large collection of coffee-machines to his balding Bradford-born flatmate, is breaking down. Not that Gabriel is bothered; hes too busy being in love with his intensely happily married brothers wife. Which is why Gabriel chooses to waste all his time - because he knows that whatever else he might achieve, it wont be happiness. Theres no way there, when youre in love with your brothers wife.Unless you remember your brothers wife has a sister...

VIVIR COMO UN ANIMAL ES UNA SALVAJADA...A MALCOLM NO LE GUSTAN LOS ANIMALESLo cual es un problema, porque a su familia le encantan. Su casa está llena de mascotas. De lo que no está llena es de las cosas que a Malcolm le gustan. Por ejemplo, el ordenador portatil que queria por su cumpleaños.El unico detalle positivo es la excursion de sexto, que Malcolm no esperaba que sus padres le pagasen. Pero alli estaba, en el autobus, rumbo a Oh, no. A una granja.En el transcurso de los dias siguientes, Malcolm cambia. Aprende un monton sobre los animales. En muchos aspectos, mas de lo que le habria gustado. Descubre como es de verdad ser un animal o un buen numero de animales.Esto hace que se sienta distinto. Y que hable de forma distinta. Y coma de forma distinta. Y que hum, huela distinto. Pero ¿volvera a ser el mismo de antes?PORQUE A VECES LO MAS DIFICIL ES SER UNO MISMO.