Best-selling author, comedian and actor, Alexei Sayle heads to The Acorn in Penzance for a one off Cornish date on Sunday, March, 8 2015.

Previewing the second volume of his hilarious and thought-provoking memoirs, he will read from Thatcher Stole My Trousers as well as from his first volume Stalin Ate My Homework along with some of his famous short stories.

Followed by questions and answers and shouting.

First came the highly successful first volume of short stories, Barcelona Plates, followed by the even more hilarious The Dog Catcher. Then the long-awaited first novel, Overtaken. In 2006 came his best-selling second novel The Weeping Women Hotel and in 2008 his brilliant third novel Mister Roberts. And now – Stalin Ate my Homework : A Memoir.

Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool on the day egg rationing came to an end.

He always knew his |parents were different. They ate salad. And they only read the Soviet Weekly. They also travelled to seaside towns to attend union conferences and they travelled across Europe. Determined to see Communism in action, they went to Czechoslavkia, where they visited the sites of massacres, rode in space age limousines and sat in the audience of bizarre mime shows.

Alexei Sayle will be performing at The Acorn Theatre, Penzance on March 8 at 7.30pm.

Tickets £13 from www.crbo.co.uk, tel: 01726 879500 or in person from The Acorn Box Office, Parade St; Welcome to West Cornwall, next to Penzance train station; or The Visitor Information Centre, Guildhall, |Street-an-Pol, St Ives.