From Bronteburger to Dotty on Women's Lib; from The Woman with 740 Children to the documentary on the making of Bessie the biographical musical, this is a collection of over 30 sketches written by Victoria Wood for her own stage shows and for her award-winning television shows.

Porky is messy. . . morning, noon, and night. Bess is perfect in every way imaginable—from her well-appointed cupboard to the figure eights she skates at the local pond. But somehow these two unlikely friends complement one another like tea and toast. So when Porky finds himself in a pickle—he can’t finish writing his poem and the secret ingredient from his favorite recipe is missing—who is there to lend a hand? Bess, of course! The everyday adventures of these two very different friends will delight newly independent readers who are ready for some funny, episodic storytelling.

When by chance, Cheyanne a street-wise 25 year old transsexual prostitute recently released from prison, meets Evan, a naive young man ambiguous about his sexual identity, the elements are in place for this erotic thriller. The story fueled by newly inherited wealth, greed, abundant use of crystal methamphetamine, sexual appetites without boundaries and even murder will make the reader laugh or at times cry. Join Cheyanne and Evan in their journey from the street sex trade on LA’s Santa Monica Boulevard to sex celebrity style in the Hollywood Hills and New York City. Read her story as it might have been told to the author by Cheyanne. For readers actually living in the transgendered world, meet new heroes and heroines. For others who chance upon this book you may gain a new understanding and acceptance of a lifestyle you wondered about.

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of desire and material object. Using Mladen Dolar’s influential A Voice and Nothing More as a reference point, The Voice as Something More reorients Dolar’s psychoanalytic analysis around the material dimensions of voices—their physicality and timbre, the fleshiness of their mechanisms, the veils that hide them, and the devices that enhance and distort them. Throughout, the essays put the body back in voice. Ending with a new essay by Dolar that offers reflections on these vocal aesthetics and paradoxes, this authoritative, multidisciplinary collection, ranging from Europe and the Americas to East Asia, from classics and music to film and literature, will serve as an essential entry point for scholars and students who are thinking toward materiality.

'There was none like her before and there's been none like her since - she was unique.' Dawn French Published to celebrate the much-missed Victoria Wood's 70th birthday, this stunning hardback edition of Chunky contains the very best of Wood's sketches and shows, including those never seen on TV, as well as: NEW introduction from Celia Imrie, star of many of Victoria Wood's shows Additions and annotations from Wood's acclaimed official biographer, Jasper Rees. 'I was very proud to be part of her gang.' Celia Imrie 'She is on a par with Alan Bennett.' Clive James 'Absolutely perfect.' Sarra Manning