Pea Green Boat - April 2026 April 23rd, 2026

PEA GREEN BOAT by Stewart Lee Illustrated by David Waywell Published on 3 September 2026 (Ebury Spotlight) In Pea Green Boat, Stewart Lee and David Waywell create a darkly hilarious retelling of The Owl and the Pussy-cat in which Edward Lear’s characters are revealed to be catastrophically poorly-equipped for maritime travel. Told through the increasingly…

Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, Edited by Adam Kay - August 2020 August 10th, 2020

Stew has a story in this book of stories to say thankyou to the NHS.   Compiled and edited by Adam Kay, the author of the bestselling This Is Going to Hurt, this powerful, heartfelt anthology features one hundred stories from a remarkable group of contributors – including Stephen Fry, Dame Mary Beard, Sir Paul…

Stewart Lee MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS BOOK LAUNCH – 15th September - September 2019 September 9th, 2019

LEMMINGS LONDON BOOK LAUNCH Stewart Lee is to become the first comedian to do a book launch on a barge. Lee will read from his new book MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS, from the deck of WORD ON THE WATER, the floating bookshop moored on the Regent’s Canal in Granary Square, near London’s King’s Cross, on…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee – September 2019 - September 2019 September 6th, 2019

DEAR LIST My book MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS is out today at all good bookshops, some bad ones, and a major tax-dodging website. Stewart Lee You can buy it direct from Faber here. LEMMINGS LONDON BOOK LAUNCH SUN 15TH SEPT 2PM FREE There is a book launch for my new book MARCH OF THE LEMMINGS.…

book extract: ‘My work became increasingly angry, bitter and incoherent’ - August 2019 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - August 25th, 2019

I always maintain that I take on a persona when writing columns for the Observer: that of an adopted man, from a relatively normal social background, who is an obvious victim of imposter syndrome. I don’t so much write the columns as transcribe them. The adopted man stands at my shoulder, just out of sight,…

Faunus: The Decorative Imagination Of Arthur Machen - June 2019 June 20th, 2019

For twenty years, Faunus, the biannual journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen, has been publishing an astonishing range of scholarship, debate, archival material, and esoterica relating to the writer H. P. Lovecraft described as a “modern master of the weird tale.” Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was not only an author of weird and decadent horror…