If you've ever wanted to try stand-up comedy, read this book by one of the UK's leading Comedy Course organizers - it will make you at least 37% funnier.

Revised and expanded edition that provides new insights and information on how to enjoy pantomime and how to make it happen.

* New in paperback, never-before-published gags, routines, sketches and scripts * 'Contains gems of Dawsonian surrealism' The Spectator * 'How infinitely clever, pithy, imaginative and genuinely surreal were the works of Les Dawson...funny and touching selection' Mail on Sunday

Features 60 greats from the world of show business - since the 1920s - who have performed in Blackpool. This work includes profiles and photographs of stars - from music hall, stage and screen - who made the resort in its heyday, the number one entertainment capital outside London.

This captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians and theatre directors have gathered since 1881. Appignanesi takes us to the original cabaret, the smoke-filled rooms of the Chat Noir in Paris, meeting place for the avantgarde.

This biography of Will Rogers provides an insight into 20th-century American history.

Invites us to step back into an era when the hourglass figure was in vogue and striptease was a true art form. This book draws back the curtain to reveal the personal journeys of yesteryear's icons of female sexuality and power, restoring their legacy to an age that has all but forgotten them, despite resurgence of burlesque.