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Stephen Fry

(b.1957)

aka Mrs. Stephen Fry

As well as being the bestselling author of three novels, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Liar, and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, Fry has played Peter in Peter's Friends, Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde, Jeeves in the television series Jeeves and Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry and Laurie.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical Mystery, Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

October 2026

Fry & Laurie: Every Funny Thing They've Ever Written
(Fry and Laurie)

November 2026

Sherlock

Series

Fry and Laurie (with Hugh Laurie)
   1. A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1990)
   2. A Bit More Fry and Laurie (1991)
   3. Three Bits of Fry and Laurie (1992)
   4. Fry and Laurie Bit No. 4 (1995)
   Fry & Laurie: Every Funny Thing They've Ever Written (2026)

Mythos
   1. Mythos (2017)
   2. Heroes (2018)
   3. Troy (2020)
   Mythos Illustrated (2023)
   4. Odyssey (2024)

Novels

   The Liar (1991)
   The Hippopotamus (1994)
   Making History (1996)
   The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000)
     aka Revenge

Collections

Sherlock (2026) (with others)

Anthologies edited

Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection (2023)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Stephen Fry

First Light (2022)
A Celebration of Alan Garner
edited by
Erica Wagner

Dear NHS (2020)
100 Stories to Say Thank You
edited by
Adam Kay

Awards

1998 Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History : Making History

Stephen Fry recommends

The Mistral (2026)
(Mythic Roots, book 1)
Felix Mosse
"The Mistral is marvellous . . . wonderful, consistent and profound world-building. Something amazing has spun out of Felix's head . . . excessively moreish."

The Betrayal of Thomas True (2024)
A J West
"Really very, very good."

The Fury (2024)
Alex Michaelides
"A glorious triumph - just brilliant."

The Winding Stair (2023)
Jesse Norman
"An absolutely thrilling read. How does someone of deep intelligence, integrity and thoughtfulness navigate the corruptions, ambitions and duplicity of a parliament crammed with nothing but sycophants, place-servers and creeps? This is an engrossing and compelling blend of political thriller and pitch-perfect historical novel."

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022)
Paterson Joseph
"An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel. In The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, Paterson has given us a character for the ages. It's hard to overpraise this achievement. You might read it for its evocation of an age or for its depiction of the cultures, attitudes, and race all colliding in 'Enlightenment' England, but whatever you bring to the book, the book will bring to you adventure, romance, and the full flowering of a magnificent literary hero, all told in wonderful prose and with dazzling energy and brilliant panache. Never woke, but always awake. Hugely recommended."

Random (2022)
Penn Jillette
"Random is everything you would hope from Penn Jillette and so much more. Random numbers are seemingly crazy, unconnected, and unpredictable: this fabulous, wondrously compelling, funny, and original novel is all that too. As for laughs - it passed the the fling-up-the-head-snort-and-slap-the-thigh test a dozen times in the first few pages alone. Hugely recommended."

The Young Pretender (2022)
Michael Arditti
"An engrossing, entralling and utterly captivating read."

Villager (2022)
Tom Cox
"One of the most reliably enchanting (not to mention often hilarious) writers around."

Cockerings (2021)
Stevyn Colgan
"Divine black village comedy."

The Last Day (2020)
Andrew Hunter Murray
"I read this hungrily ... Its intelligence and bravura characterisation will have you turning page after page. A fabulous achievement."

Take Nothing With You (2018)
Patrick Gale
"Absolutely one of his complete best. So many funny and tender and terrific scenes. He hovers between social comedy and apocalyptic tragedy without the move appearing artificial or contrived. Just a wonderful, wonderful read."

How to Stop Time (2017)
Matt Haig
"Matt Haig is astounding."

Watch Me (2014)
(Jefferson Winter, book 2)
James Carol
"A brilliant, conflicted profiler."

The Folded Man (2013)
M T Hill
"Captures the shell and essence of Britain."

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (2012)
Jacob M Appel
"A darkly comic satire, full of insight into American culture."

All in the Mind (2008)
Alastair Campbell
"Campbell's insights into power and politics are delivered with a trademark assured elegance, but it is the devastating penetration of the human mind that takes this novel out of the ordinary. I have rarely read a book where the agonies and insecurities of mental trauma have been so well chronicled."

Red to Black (2008)
(Finn , book 1)
Alex Dryden
"Brilliant and unforgettable."

The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction (2006)
Neil Gaiman and Darrell Schweitzer
"Gaimen is a god in the universe of story."

Bullet Points (2004)
Mark Watson
"Woody Allen and William Boyd have had a bastard love-child and his name is Mark Watson."

Montmorency (2003)
(Montmorency, book 1)
Eleanor Updale
"One of the most original, witty and delicious books to have arrived for a very long time."

Father Frank (2001)
Paul Burke
"A dazzling first novel - funny, thoughtful and original."

Perfect Tense (2001)
Michael Bracewell
"A unique and priceless pearl of a book."

The Sherlock Effect (1997)
Raymond Kay Lyon
"It is a tremendous read."

Rommel? Gunner Who? (1974)
(War (and Peace) Memoirs)
Spike Milligan
"That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man."

Galahad at Blandings (1964)
(Blandings)
P G Wodehouse
"What can one say about Wodehouse? He exhausts superlatives."

A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
(Paddington Bear)
Michael Bond
"I've always had great respect for Paddington... He is a British institution."

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