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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 Jones. A woman walks into a gym and lies to get a job. The gym is a palace of possibility. Here she can transform and...

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...

“Yan’s storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible quality.”—NPR The brilliant and highly resonant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers, exploring a son, father, and mother all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one...

THE SPANISH LANGUAGE SENSATION 'Reflects on what we truly think (but almost never say) about domestic labour' Vogue 'A witty and unflinchingly honest novel on domestic work, motherhood, and class. Painfully relatable and enjoyable to read' Roxy Dunn, author of As Young as This 'Makes you laugh...

From Chuck Palahniuk, an author whose “literature is a breed all its own” (USA TODAY), his first foray into science fiction, following a young man searching through old sci-fi pulp magazines for clues to find his father who disappeared into space years ago. On Earth, a young man named Grunt...

Der französische Literatur-Gigant Balzac war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende. Sein fast übermenschlicher Arbeitseifer wurde optimal durch seine Kaffeesucht und seine zahlreichen Affären ergänzt, wobei letztere ihm dabei halfen, seine chronischen Geldprobleme wenigstens phasenweise zu überwinden. Er erschuf ein Universum von mehreren hundert Charakteren, wobei „Die menschliche Komödie" sein bekanntestes Werk darstellt.

Millie is old enough to know better. Just don’t tell her that. At forty-nine, Millie's life is in freefall. Everyone around her seems to have it all figured out—meanwhile, she’s stuck in a job she hates and back living with her mum. Avoiding reality is practically a full-time job. With the...

The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is...

“Mateo Askaripour is a writer of deep talent, great range, great skill, and very funny! What a pleasure to read his work.”—James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck: a dazzling, inspiring...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Davis Kennedy interviews at a mysterious new startup called Paradox Inc., he’s startled to find the venue is in the past. Silicon Valley’s emerging “temporal engineering” sector has just cracked time travel, and companies are racing to exploit it for...

Silicon Valley just invented time travel. Now, three reluctant heroes race to save the timeline before the resulting tech bubble bursts—and takes all of reality with it—in this satirical, hilariously plausible oral history. "Funny and distressingly realistic...propelled by awesome characters...

Le retour de votre auteur new-yorkais préféré. Orloff Trenchant, dit Or, est artiste peintre dans l'East Village. Après une rupture, il se retrouve à dormir dans son van, à vendre des livres dans la rue, et à tenter de finir le tableau qui peut-être, un jour, lui apportera le succès...

When Annie Meyers wakes up in a made-for-TV Christmas movie starring her ex-situationship and a now not-so-dorky childhood neighbor, her plans to swear off love—and Christmas—begin to unravel. Perfect for fans of A Merry Little Meet Cute, this holiday rom-com will enchant listeners who have...

A hilarious journey with Tom Sharpe's characteristic wit, adventure, and outrageous humour. Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him.

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality.

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium than to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...

The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friends and Straight White Male. What do you do when a homeless man knows your name? For Alan, there's no question – only natural that he'd want to see his old mate Craig off the streets, even if only for a few nights, and into some clean clothes. Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends, No Good Deed is a funny and painful examination of friendship, the strange currents of ambition, loathing, pity and affection that flow between people over the decades, and of men getting older as they fail and succeed.

Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to...

THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Doll’s wife pursue their passion –...