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Young Once: A Life Less Heavy

Spectacular…oozes charm and likability…will make you hoot with laughter on public transport…”   Marcus Berkman Mail on Sunday

Beautifully written”  Stephen Fry

 

Travelling Light

“Nigel Planer can do that rare thing – be funny and sad in the same poem…”
Harry Mount
Funny, moving and intimate…”.
Ayub Khan-Din

Jeremiah Bourne in Time

Funny, perceptive and hugely readable’.    Ben Elton

“Delightful time-travel shenanigans”.    Rhianna Pratchett

Nigel’s book of Poems

“A unique piece of poetic time travel, like a journey upstream to find the source of a river…frequently funny, sometimes alarming…Tim Firth

I, An Actor

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“One of my five all-time favourite books.”
Lynne Barber, Observer

“mean-spirited, mocking, crude and perhaps the funniest book I have ever read.”
Morragh O’Brien, Midweek

Faking It

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“…a sort of cross between Nick Hornby and Kingsley Amis… for all its playfulness and comedy… deals with serious moral issues…”
Lynn Barber, Observer

“Barry is a magnificent comic creation… Barry’s night at the men’s group is a perfectly placed comic scene balancing slapstick and wit”
Stephanie Merrit, Observer

“…intelligent comedy of contemporary manners…”
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

The Right Man

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“Subtle, honest and hilariously funny, this is the Bridget Jones for the New Man…”
Elle magazine

A Good Enough Dad

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“A refreshingly unsentimental look at pregnancy and life with a small human”
 Parent magazine

“Every new dad will love it”
 Mother & Baby

Therapy And How To Avoid It (with Robert Llewellyn)

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“A very funny comedy… probably the most succinct guide to psychotherapy you can buy, as well as the most sceptical”
Observer

“A wacky and timely call for the shrinks to come clean”
She

Neil’s Book Of The Dead

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Let’s Get Divorced

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Unlike The Buddha

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“full of anger and rawness”
Brian Patten

“…sharp and incisive…”
The Stage

“…from the outrageously funny to the shamelessly sentimental…”
Beeston Poetry Anthology

“…it’s difficult to know when Nigel Planer is joking and when he’s being terribly, terribly serious.”
The Independent