On a slow Friday night, Manny suggests that the gang go to a party which will be attended by Rowena, a girl he likes very much. Instantly jealous, Bernard overcomes his natural reluctance with curiosi

Manny organises a book launch party at the shop with charismatic-but-smug travel writer Jason, and everyone starts falling for him and his stories of far-away adventure. Bernard, however, has other pr

After a small win on the Grand National Bernard quickly gets addicted to gambling, leaving Fran and Manny in a bitter competition to sell as many books as possible. Soon horses aren\’t enough and Bern

Manny\’s extremely irritating parents, \’Moo-Ma\’ and \’Moo-Pa\’, unexpectedly drop by to stay after Bernard deletes Manny\’s answerphone messages.

When Bernard holds a children\’s themed book day in the shop, Fran bets Manni and Bernard they couldn\’t write a children\’s book over a weekend, while Bernard bets Fran back that she will have an awf

When Manny defects to Goliath Books after an \”incident\” with Bernard, his ex-employer\’s life spirals out of control. Meanwhile Fran returns from holiday only to be greeted by the squalor of Bernard

When construction starts next door to the shop, Manni, Bernard and Fran try to decide what to do while it continues.

Fran tries to cleanse her lifestyle by taking up yoga and going on a radical diet, while Bernard and Manni receive some books on Freud and their lives descend into his famous theories.

Manni and Bernard try to keep up with modern book shops and in doing so Manni helps Fran get over her boredom by encouraging her to look up her family tree.

Bernard and Manni have to deal with a gangster turned writer who plans to hold a reading of his autobiography at the book shop, however he can\’t read. Meanwhile Fran gets an office job where she isn\