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The complete series 27 of the popular impressions show, plus two Specials The popular topical comedy show is back with another helping of political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging. So sit back and treat your ears to a bumper helping of superb satirical impressions from the...

Ever wondered if one choice, one weekend and one person can change everything? Writer Tess has always been accused of being overly romantic by her best friend Carys. And when they meet cheerful stranger Spencer and his more reserved wingman Ryan on the sleeper train to a wedding, Carys is all-in...

Cervantes's masterpiece, joyously restored to its riotous, laugh-out-loud glory. In one of the world's first and greatest novels, don Quixote of la Mancha becomes obsessed with romantic tales of chivalry, dubs himself a knight, and sets out in search of adventure. Accompanied by his scrawny...

The humorous and relatable chronicle of a young woman’s obsessive and romantically unrequited crush, in which the sex scenes are replaced by endnotes written as rhymed sonnets. Six months after graduating from a small liberal arts college, Willa receives a text from Alex, her situationship...

An intriguing and hilarious mystery about the ultimate literary scandal, in which the son of a world-famous author is faced with the dilemma of whether to publish his father’s final, unfinished work, which he had promised to destroy upon the his death. Meet Dmitri Boris Godunov, son of Russian...

Her awful boss has been murdered and everyone in the office is a suspect in this bright, witty, chaotic, and all-too-relatable mystery. Julia wants her boss dead. We’ve all been there. Who hasn’t spent hours daydreaming about the ways their egotistical, bullying, sexist, controlling boss...

A son who wants to kill his father. A father who wants to kill his wife. A wife who wants to kill her only son: this eye-popping new novel by one of the world’s great literary satirists is full of surprises and home truths. In Gaotian Town, Central Plains, China, a family lives in abject...

Gym by Verena Kessler is a sweat-slicked, painfully funny novel about obsession, ambition and a woman’s doomed attempt to run from herself. Translated from the German by Lucy Lee Jones. A woman walks into a gym and lies to get a job. The gym is a palace of possibility. Here she can transform...

'VERY INTELLIGENT AND VERY FUNNY' SARA PASCOE 'AN OUTSTANDING DEBUT' MARY BETH KEANE 'UTTERLY GRIPPING' DAISY BUCHANAN I am sitting in the waiting room of a London clinic. In ten minutes I will have an injection that, I am assured, will erase the last twenty years from my face. It's quiet in...

Since their first trip to the beach, Masachika, Alya, and their friends have been through a lot together. From fiery debates and competing against rivals at the school festival to celebrating birthdays and revealing secrets—you think you’ve seen it all. These short stories offer a look...

The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times, Sunday Times and global bestselling phenomenon, The Love Hypothesis. Olive Smith finally has her PhD, and she's living her happy ever after. Well, not quite her ever after, since postdoctoral fellowships are temporary by nature, but...

"I can’t imagine there’s a woman out there who wouldn’t identify with Julia. I wish I could meet her in real life for a drink, a cig, and a long chat." —Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Whale Harbor For readers of Maria Semple and Grant Ginder, a funny, furious, and...

A charismatic love coach is exposed as a master manipulator—bringing together the many women he’s wronged—in this razor-sharp, witty debut that interrogates intimacy, power, and the stories we tell to appear perfect Dion Watkins is a relationship podcaster and influencer revered for his...

A funny, bittersweet novel about a mother-daughter stand-up comedy rivalry that becomes the only honest conversation they’ve ever had, from the author of When We Were Enemies. When struggling Chicago stand-up comic Chloe Masterson turns a disastrous family dinner into a viral comedy set, her...

From the #1 bestselling author of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates comes a swoony killer romance in which a sinister couples retreat results in cult chaos – for fans of Grady Hendrix and Brynne Weaver. Featuring duet narration and special sound effects that will have listeners on the edge of...

Georges is dead. Charlotte’s live-at-home, darling son took a blow to his head while out drinking, and she had to find him, still wearing last night’s clothes, lying on top of his sheets. He was only thirty-four. Left with only her philanderer, porn-addicted husband Erik for company...

Four wives. Five murders. One very bad, very dead husband. Rich Milford is dead. At last. In the Black town of Newville, Oklahoma, Rich Milford has spent his life doing exactly as he pleases. A moonshiner, womaniser and self-styled prophet, he runs his eccentric household with rigid rules...

Ein humorvoller Frauenroman über Neuanfänge und andere Katastrophen Mann weg, Liebe weg, Leben futsch? Wenn man nach zehn Jahren Ehe von seinem Mann per Telefon verlassen wird, dann ist das ein Schock. Zum Glück sind Schwester und Freundinnen gleich zur Stelle und verordnen der viel reisenden...

Ein Stalker zwingt Nora zur Flucht aus ihrer Wohnung – und treibt sie geradewegs in die Arme des Mannes, den sie lieber vergessen hätte: West. Unfassbar attraktiv, unerträglich arrogant und der beste Freund ihres Bruders. Um sie auf seinem Luxusanwesen rund um die Uhr zu schützen, schlägt...

A comic romance set in the snowy north, from one of Japan’s most revered novelists. Available in English for the first time. Unimpressed by her marriage prospects, 20-year-old Natsuko Matsuura decides to pack it in and enter a convent. But en route to an abbey in the far north of Japan, she...