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BBC TV comedy writer, horrible histories songwriter + now... acclaimed NOVELIST!

I’m Dave Cohen, and I’ve been working in comedy for years, writing and performing for dozens of BBC TV and Radio Shows and for Horrible Histories – The Movie.

I’ve written my first novel and enjoyed it so much I’ve written a follow-up.

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Stand Up, Barry Goldman

Barry Goldman is a sensitive boy. He’s being primed to run the family business but has discovered a talent for making audiences laugh at his silly poems.
 
At last, he has found something that might make him attractive to girls – in particular, Harriet Fink – but there’s not much call for delicate, earnest poets in the 1970s comedy world of hot-panted dolly birds and battle-axe mothers-in-law.
 
Then one night he sees Kris Dean on stage and understands that the world of comedy is about to change forever.

All I’d wanted for as long as I could remember was a woman to love, a soulmate to live with in contentment for the rest of my days: friend, lover, companion, mother to our children.

Time was running out: I was getting old. Next year I would be eighteen.

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