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  • Published: 3 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241702031
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.00

Yasmin Bandara Levels Up!





The next hilarious new middle-grade novel from comedy superstar Romesh Ranganathan.

From comedy superstar Romesh Ranganathan comes a second unique and hilarious middle-grade story, perfect for readers of David Baddiel, Little Badman and Adam Wins the Internet!


Like many thirteen-year-olds, Yasmin Bandara doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up.

Her parents want her to be a doctor, and expect her to focus on school – the only computer game they allow her to play is purely educational (yawn!).

Yasmin gets so good at it that the game’s company invite her to play at a national competition. Her friends, teachers, and family are mega excited about the opportunity, but Yasmin’s not!

So when her best friend Zane introduces her to a cool football game called FifPro, Yassmin’s ready for some fun! She can’t get enough of it, secretly playing matches whenever she can, hiding Zane’s spare console from her parents, and spending her lunch hours swapping stats with her friends about an anonymous FifPro superstar called The Goat.

Before long, Yasmin’s gaming talent means she’s smashing every match and is desperate to become as great, if not greater than her hero. But when she receives an exciting invite to the national FifPro tournament she faces a dilemma - it’s on the SAME day as the other competition!

Playing computer games might have taught Yasmin how to be a brilliant problem-solver, but this puzzle might be a level too far. Can she make everyone proud, beat The Goat, and convince her parents that she wants to be a professional gamer?

  • Published: 3 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241702031
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.00

About the author

Romesh Ranganathan

Romesh Ranganathan is a comedian and actor. A former maths teacher, he made his comedy circuit debut in 2010, and has quickly established himself as one of Britain’s best loved comedy stars.

Known for his RTS Award winning series ‘The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan’, his weekly topical show ‘The Ranganation’, and his Sky One sitcom ‘The Reluctant Landlord’, he has also travelled the globe with Rob Beckett in ‘Rob & Romesh Vs’, been a regular on ‘A League Of Their Own’ and starred in the show that first brought Romesh and his mum to the public consciousness, the BAFTA nominated ‘Asian Provocateur’.

Romesh is currently in the middle of his biggest stand-up tour to date, ‘The Cynic’s Mixtape’, which sold out theatres in record time across the UK, including a phenomenal 12-nights at Hammersmith Apollo.

Amongst all of this, he still manages to squeeze in time to record his award-winning podcast ‘Hip Hop Saved My Life’, to write his regular ‘Midlife Crisis’ column for the Guardian, and to pen his bestselling autobiography, Straight Outta Crawley.

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Praise for Yasmin Bandara Levels Up!

As well as being a hilarious and accessible read, the story also delivers a really powerful and heartwarming message about the importance of believing in yourself and following your dreams.

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