David Baddiel

David Baddiel examines the -ism that woke culture and identity politics leave behind: antisemitism. Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you. It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel's contention that one type of racism has been left out of this fight. In his unique combination of reasoning, polemic, personal experience and jokes, Baddiel argues that those who think of themselves as on the right side of history have often ignored the history of anti-Semitism. He outlines why and how, in a time of intensely heightened awareness of minorities, Jews don't count as a real minority.

Jews Don't Count

A boy travels to an alternate world where kids get to choose their own parents in this zany, internationally bestselling adventure, which combines the be-careful-what-you-wish-for humor of The Chocolate Touch with the classic appeal of Roald Dahl. Barry Bennett is sick of his parents. They’re boring, they’re too strict, and it’s their fault his name is Barry. So he makes a wish for better ones—and is whisked away to the Parent Agency, where kids get to pick out their perfect parents. For Barry, this seems like a dream come true. But as he’s about to discover, choosing a new mom and dad isn’t as simple as it sounds… The Parent Agency is the first children’s book by British author and comedian David Baddiel, and it includes illustrations by Roald Dahl Funny Prize–winning artist Jim Field.

The Parent Agency

From the author of THE PARENT AGENCY comes a thrilling, funny and touching new adventure.

The Person Controller

A hilarious rollercoaster ride of pure entertainment for 9+ readers everywhere, Birthday Boy is the new Baddiel Blockbuster: featuring David’s inimitable and award-winning combination of wish-fulfilment, heart and hilarity, all brought to life by regular collaborator Jim Field’s witty, stylish illustrations.

Birthday Boy

How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH SILVERMAN 'a masterpiece.' STEPHEN FRY

From David Baddiel, the brightest new star of children’s books and winner of the LOLLIES award, comes a laugh-out-loud adventure for every child who ever wondered what it might be like to be a bit of an animal...

AniMalcolm

Written especially for WBD 2016, this is a fabulously entertaining and touching novella from David Baddiel, author of the bestselling THE PARENT AGENCY and THE PERSON CONTROLLER. Illustrated by the hugely talented Jim Field, winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked

From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count ' A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN DE BOTTON ' Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare ... another one-sitting wonder' STEPHEN FRY David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn't. Or at least, that is Baddiel's view in this book, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else's, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished-for we will, considers Baddiel, make real. The admission of his own divine yearnings makes for a book that is more vulnerable - and more understanding of the value and power of religion - than most atheist polemics. A philosophical essay that utilises Baddiel's trademarks of comedy, storytelling and personal asides, The God Desire offers a highly readable new perspective on the most ancient of debates.

The God Desire

It’s the latest Brilliant Blockbuster from bestselling Baddiel! A non-stop thrill-ride adventure that will have readers young and old racing to the finishing line.

The Taylor TurboChaser

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...

Future Friend

Como as políticas identitárias falharam com uma identidade em particular Vivemos num momento de intensa consciencialização sobre as minorias, em que pessoas que consideram estar do lado certo da História lutam ativamente contra formas de discriminação como a homofobia, a deficiência, a transfobia e, sobretudo, o racismo. David Baddiel defende, porém, que há um tipo de racismo que tem sido deixado de fora dessa luta: o antissemitismo. Neste livro, numa brilhante combinação de observações perspicazes, experiências pessoais e críticas acutilantes, o famoso comediante e escritor apresenta a sua perspetiva sobre como as políticas identitárias e não discriminatórias têm falhado com uma identidade em particular e descreve como os judeus não contam como uma verdadeira minoria - e por que motivo deveriam contar. Um pequeno ensaio sociopolítico que convida a uma reflexão sobre a desigualdade no tratamento das minorias. «Uma crítica convincente e devastadora.» The Sunday Times

Como as Políticas Identitárias Deixaram Ficar Mal uma Identidade em Particular

Os Judeus Não Contam

Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned

Steven Lenton

Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous

Head Kid

Harry ønsker å bytte ut foreldrene sine med noen som er mye kulere. Han er lut lei de han har. De er kjedelige, de er strenge og det er deres skyld at han heter Harry. Da han blir tatt med til Foreldrebyrået, går drømmen om å få nye, bedre foreldre i oppfyllelse. Nå skal han få velge seg perfekte foreldre. Dessverre tar det ikke lang tid før Harry skjønner at det å velge nye foreldre er mye vanskeligere enn han hadde trodd. Fortelling for mellomtrinnet. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

tenk om du kunne velge dine egne foreldre!

Foreldrebyrået

Čo keby ste mali rovnaké schopnosti ako váš obľúbený počítačový hrdina? Predstavte si, že sa vám do rúk dostane kúzelný ovládač! Keď ním namierite na kohokoľvek, kto má na ruke kúzelný náramok, a myslíte pritom na svoju obľúbenú hru, ako napríklad Minecraft alebo FIFA, môžete svojho kamaráta v skutočnom svete ovládať presne tak ako na obrazovke! A to sa stane dvojčatám Fredovi a Elle. Bude to riadna zábava! No čo ak sa kúzelný ovládač vybije?

Ovládač ľudí

From the million-copy bestselling author of THE PARENT AGENCY and BIRTHDAY BOY comes a wildly entertaining wish-fulfilment adventure that asks the question: what would happen if the strictest head teacher swapped bodies with the naughtiest kid in school?

"In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide pact with Eli, a suicide pact that he, Eli, survived."--Publisher description.

The Death of Eli Gold

THE SECRET PURPOSES, David Baddiel's third novel, takes us into a little-known and still somewhat submerged area of British history: the internment of German Jewish refugees on the Isle of Man during the Second World War. Isaac Fabian, on the run with his young family from Nazism in East Prussia, comes to Britain assuming he has found asylum, but instead finds himself drowning in the morass of ignorance, half-truth, prejudice, and suspicion that makes up government attitudes to German Jews in 1940. One woman, June Murray, a translator from the Ministry of Information, stands out - and when she comes to the island on a personal mission to uncover solid evidence of Nazi atrocities, her meeting with Isaac will have far-reaching consequences for both of them. A haunting and beautifully written tale of love, displacement and survival, THE SECRET PURPOSES profoundly questions the way that truth - both personal and political - emerges from the tangle of history.

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