Michael Palin

Martin Sproale is an assistant postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway. Martin lives in a small English village, where he studies his hero and putters about harmlessly--until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster instead of Martin. Slick and self-assured, Nick steals Martin's girlfriend and decides to modernize the friendly local office by firing dedicated but elderly employees and privatizing the business. Suddenly, gentle...

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how individually the Pythons went their separate ways. Yet at the same time they were working on the now celebrated...

• A major new work by one of the most loved and admired of travel writers • Interest in the Franklin expedition will be heightened by a major AMC series called The Terror, airing in March 2018. The series is a fictional telling of the doomed expedition based on the Dan Simmons bestselling book of the same name. The Terror was the name of the Erebus' sister ship on the doomed voyage • Draws on fresh research to bring to life one of the greatest...

A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.

Michael Palin undertakes another of his celebrated journeys, to a vast country of unimaginable contrasts--Brazil. An economic powerhouse, it is host to a staggering variety of peoples, from the hugely wealthy to the abjectly poor, from 21st century technocrats to tribes who continue to live as their ancestors have for centuries.

Michael Palin, beloved Monty Python alumnus and host of the popular PBS series, explores the diverse cultures and varied landscapes that surround a 20,000 mile stretch of the Pacific rim. Traveling in dhows, canoes, and mail-planes, on camels and junk steamers, readers experience Tierra del Fuego, New Zealand, Australia and other exotic locales through Palin's eyes. With 230 color photos and maps, this volume offers a fascinating glimpse into the...

"In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary was widely acclaimed. Now he shares his day-by-day...

"The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball, staged to raise funds for Amnesty International, was held over four nights in late summer 1989 at London's Cambridge Theatre. The emphasis was on comedy, and blended '70s generation performers John Cleese, Michael Palin, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore with '80s newcomers, such as Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Lenny Henry, Rory Bremner, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, and Adrian Edmondson."...