David Baddiel Books in Order

This spoof encyclopedia spins off from the cult sketch show, turning everyday subjects, celebrities and random objects into deadpan A–Z entries. Packed with in‑jokes, surreal cross‑references and new gags, it feels like leafing through the off‑screen world of the original comedy series.

A behind-the-scenes diary from the early days of Fantasy Football League, this book follows David Baddiel and Frank Skinner through a season of TV recordings, running jokes and real‑life matches. It blends football obsession, guest appearances and comedy mishaps into a very 1990s fan’s-eye view.

Insomniac drifter Gabriel Jacoby is stuck in a messy Kilburn flat, addicted to late-night TV and secretly in love with his brother’s wife. As relationships, family history and sleep deprivation collide, he lurches through a darkly comic hunt for rest, love and a life that actually works.

On the night Princess Diana dies, Vic Mullan begins an intense affair with Emma, the wife of his oldest friend. Set against months of public mourning and media frenzy, their private obsession deepens, then is shattered by a smaller, close-to-home tragedy that forces everyone to face what love costs.

Isaac Fabian, a German Jewish refugee who has fled Nazism with his wife and daughter, arrives in Britain expecting safety and instead is interned as an “enemy alien” on the Isle of Man. There he meets June Murray, a translator whose search for truth entangles them in love, guilt and war‑time suspicion.

As 85-year-old literary giant Eli Gold lies dying in a New York hospital, the fractured members of his family gather around the bed. Told through several voices, the novel peels back old affairs, rivalries and myths to ask what a life’s work—and a father—really mean.

Nine-year-old Barry Bennett thinks his parents are boring, strict and unfair. After a birthday meltdown, he’s whisked to an alternate world where children get to choose their parents from a glossy agency. Testing out wildly different families is fun—until Barry realises perfect parents might not actually exist.

Twins Fred and Ellie are brilliant at video games but hopeless at sport and standing up to bullies. When a mysterious stranger sends them a bizarre new controller that seems to work on real life, their sudden powers feel like a dream come true—until everything starts spinning out of control.

Malcolm can’t stand animals, which is awkward when his family fills their house with pets and his class goes on a farm trip. After a grumpy goat’s magic turns him into one creature after another, he’s forced to see the world—and his family—from a very different perspective.

Rule-bound Alfie lives by strict routines, right down to how he brushes his teeth. When a new babysitter cheerfully tells him to “do what you like,” he tests the limits. One wild night of total freedom shows that having no rules brings its own chaos.

Sam Green loves everything about birthdays and wishes his eleventh could last forever. When he wakes to find it really is his birthday again…and again…the endless cake and presents soon lose their shine. As the loop unravels his life, Sam must find a way to move time on.

Prankster Ryan Ward has finally driven his head teacher to quit, just as inspectors are due. The ultra-strict new head, Mr Carter, plans to crack down—until a freak incident swaps their bodies. Suddenly Ryan is running the school, and his worst enemy is stuck in his teenage life.

Amy Taylor adores cars but uses a slow, battered wheelchair that keeps her on the sidelines. With help from her inventor friend Rahul, her chair becomes the Taylor Turbochaser, a souped‑up supercar. A runaway road trip follows, pushing Amy’s independence, friendships and courage into top gear.

In the year 3020, lonely Pip lives sealed indoors in a climate-ravaged city, attending virtual school with only two talking pets for company. A glowing portal drops her into 2019, where she meets young inventor Rahul. Together they juggle time travel, secret animals and a risky plan to fix the future.

In this sharp, personal polemic, Baddiel argues that antisemitism is often treated as a lesser form of racism, especially in progressive politics. Drawing on examples from media, sport and public life, he explores why Jewish identity is frequently left out of modern conversations about prejudice.

Billy Smith is the most ordinary kid in school—until a TV crew arrives to film a reality show and a remix of his dull class presentation unexpectedly goes viral. Overnight fame brings red carpets, pop songs and online scrutiny, forcing Billy to decide what—and who—really matters.

In Etta’s world, Christmas has been swallowed by Winterzone, a high-tech company that runs the whole holiday with robots, hologram Santas and delivery drones. When Etta and her friend Monty uncover a strange clue, they race to find the real Santa before the human side of Christmas disappears for good.

This collection brings together three illustrated stories in which children who feel stuck or overlooked are swept into strange adventures. From a boy unleashed from his routines to a girl on a first magical train journey and a seaside town transformed, everyday life suddenly looks much less ordinary.

Baddiel describes himself as a “fundamentalist atheist” who nevertheless longs for God to exist. In this short, conversational book he examines his fear of death, the comforts religion offers and why our powerful wish for a divine protector may itself be evidence that we invented one.

In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Baddiel revisits his north‑London childhood, his mother’s long, openly conducted affair with a golf memorabilia salesman and his father’s decline into dementia. Mixing shocking family stories with dark humour and warmth, he shows how inherited trauma and chaos shaped both his life and his comedy.

Every weekend, Benny Burns helps his dad sell burgers from a van outside the football ground. When he discovers his grandad’s secret recipes, his cooking suddenly becomes extraordinary—so extraordinary it threatens a global fast‑food chain. To save the family business, Benny must out‑cook and out‑think a ruthless burger empire.