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Lezi McGyver: Dos Sex Machina is a hilariously unhinged, sex-positive fever dream about a genius inventor put on trial by her own subconscious. Featuring sentient gadgets, a cartoon courtroom, and the uncomfortable question of why it’s easier to fix everyone else than yourself. Equal parts absurd comedy and emotional gut-punch.

Angels of the Great Plains Motel is the story of what happens over two tumultuous weeks at a motel, restaurant, and nightclub in a small town in the upper Midwest. In the fall of 1975, America is in something like the half-slumber of a Saturday afternoon nap after a rough week. Leisure suits are everywhere, even on “The Tonight Show.” Gerald Ford is caretaker-in-chief of the White House. Olivia Newton-John warbles “Have You Never Been Mellow” and Glen Campbell belts out “Rhinestone Cowboy” on pop and country radio stations.

Narrated by award winning actor Bill Nighy. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral...

Brought to you by Penguin. Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes...

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

Brought to you by Penguin. Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets...

"Narrator Laurence Dobiesz’s reading is unhurried, almost leisurely, as he savors Amis’ wicked stylistic virtuosity and his dark humorous portraits of characters." —Booklist A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more...

Named one of Time’s 100 best novels in the English language, Money is “savagely hilarious. It risks, it boils with energy . . . it even manages to shock” (The Washington Post). Including a new introduction by Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Originally published...

A riotous, razor-edged satire from one of Britain’s most fearless literary provocateurs. Xan Meo, a disgraced journalist, becomes entangled in a twisted web of violence, betrayal, and media spectacle after a brutal attack leaves him physically and emotionally shattered. Meanwhile, a gangster...

মাপা হাঁসি চাপা কান্না জীবন নিয়ে কাহিনী।আমাদের জীবনে নানান মাপা হাঁসি ও চাপা কান্না ভোরে থাকে।এমনই দৈনন্দিন...

সঞ্জীব চট্ট্যোপাধ্যায়, ১৯৩৬ এ কলকাতা শহরে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। উনি একজন বিখ্যাত ঔপন্যাসিক এবং জনপ্রিয় ছোট গল্প...

মাপা হাঁসি চাপা কান্না জীবন নিয়ে কাহিনী।আমাদের জীবনে নানান মাপা হাঁসি ও চাপা কান্না ভোরে থাকে।এমনই দৈনন্দিন...

Thursday 1st September 2039. On the centenary of the Second World War, atheist scientist Chris Deckers exploits the planet's most powerful computer to reveal something so cataclysmic it makes five thousand years of recorded human history–wars, empires, revolutions, the lot–look like an underwhelming warm-up act.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Eleven-year-old Hans Drost has one job: never reveal his magic. In an empire ruled by the Great Clown, every spell is regulated, every gifted child is watched, and the Bureau of Magical Control is always one magical sneeze away. But when Hans...

Sophia Abney lives in a rundown apartment with her slacker brother and handicapped mother. After graduating from community college, she wins a full scholarship to medical school. It’s the chance of a lifetime for a poor city kid, one she believes will raise her family out of poverty. But once school starts, she quickly falls behind her classmates, all from rich families and elite colleges. She begins to worry she’ll never become a doctor.

What if, one ordinary morning, humanity discovered that animals could suddenly understand us… and talk back? In The Cats Have Notes, Sam Peterson and his wife Sally wake to a world forever changed when their three household cats begin carrying on perfectly understandable conversations. Morgana, the self-important Maine Coon mix; Melisandre, the sardonic black cat with a Goth streak; and Grizabella, the sharp-tongued young tabby, suddenly have opinions about everything—from food and litter boxes to television, politics, personal privacy, and the baffling habits of humans.

When a devastating EMP attack wipes out the electrical grid across the United States, the people of Clinton, Iowa suddenly find themselves cut off from the modern world—no phones, no internet, no refrigeration, no idea whether the federal government still exists, and only three days’ worth of patience remaining. Mayor Frank Ramey is trying to keep the city functioning with lanterns, rationed gasoline, and whatever remains of Midwestern common sense.

“The perfect book for anyone who has ever built an entire fantasy life around a man who barely knows your last name and who makes you ask, ‘Is this love, or am I just deeply unwell?’ It’s funny, cringey, painfully real yet still tender about the humiliations we endure to feel chosen."...

Tilly Penrose and Barnaby Flinch have made a glorious career out of disaster. For twenty-six years, the beloved comedy duo — half pratfall, half poetry — have transformed spilled milk, broken props, collapsing scenery, and outright mayhem into a uniquely joyful art form. But when a performance in Brighton literally breaks the stage, they receive a dire ultimatum: one more catastrophic incident and the tour is over. As injuries mount and doubts creep in, Barnaby privately wonders if their bodies — and their luck — are running out.

Set against the post-war backdrop of a rural village in the Emilia-Romagna, this is the second in a new series of hilarious and incisive Don Camillo anthologies, which offer 215 stories translated into English for the very first time. As ever, the townsfolk, riven by their disparate allegiances to the hot-headed Catholic priest and his equally pugnacious adversary Peppone, the Communist Mayor, are relieved of their prejudices by the gentle humour and insights coming from high above the altar in the village church.