The Book of Legends: A hilarious and fast-paced quest adventure from bestselling comedian Lenny Henry

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He co-hosted the children's programme Tiswas from 1978 until 1981, and subsequently performed and wrote for the show Three of a Kind, with comedians Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield. Following the mysterious disappearance four years ago of their father, twelve-year-old twins Bran and Fran are living with their mum in a small Midlands town.

Book of Legends: What if All the Stories Were Real? The Book of Legends: What if All the Stories Were Real?

Bran and Fran just love living with their mum, everyday is different as she Loves telling them daily stories. Perhaps to cover his pride, he segues straight into a character, pretending to be a Hollywood starlet modestly accepting an award.This guy, who once read Tolkien’s Middle-earth books and wondered where all the non-white characters were, now finds himself having to answer for the fact that the characters in a 2022 adaptation aren’t all white. Overnight, episodes of the new The Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power, will appear online; Henry has a small role as a hobbit.

Book of Legends by Sir Lenny Henry - Pan Macmillan The Book of Legends by Sir Lenny Henry - Pan Macmillan

But when their mum's treasured storybook turns out to be a portal to another world full of mythical legends, everything changes. After reluctantly moving to the tiny village of Knobbly Bottom, Maggie is astonished when she encounters a flock of vampire sheep who are determined to take over the world.

Fran and Bran end up on a quest looking for their parents who have disappeared - taken by hooked lightening. K. Audio for a review copy via NetGalley of the unabridged audiobook edition of ‘The Book of Legends: What if all the stories were real? However, stories are magical things – and it is not long before the pair discover that the Nine Dominions are of course real.

Book of Legends by Lenny Henry (Hardback) The Book of Legends by Lenny Henry (Hardback)

Henry is associated with the British Comic Relief charity organisation, along with his former wife, comedienne Dawn French, and Griff Rhys Jones, and has hosted the show and also presented filmed reports from overseas on the work of the charity. Something about this phase of our conversation puts him in mind of his bedside table at home in Oxfordshire: that pile of books-on-the-go that includes David Chase’s Sopranos scripts, a memoir about the making of Apocalypse Now and a copy of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. They’re sat in their pants, eating Hobnobs and looking at their computers, slagging off anything different.

The show featured stand up, spoofs like his send up of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, and many of the characters he had developed during Summer Season, including Theophilus P. Their mother’s book will provide a portal to transport them there on a quest to solve the mystery of their parents’ double-disappearance and reunite the family. In fact, Henry was born to Winifred and another man, Albert Green, whom she’d met in the Midlands in the 1950s, before Winston travelled over to join her from Jamaica.