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Author and comedian Daniel Foxx presents a wonderful collection of stories especially for the little darlings of the fabulously wealthy - that can also be enjoyed by YOU, the downtrodden, pitiful, ordinary adult! Listen to the everyday adventures of Rupert, Shallotte and Genevievette as they ski, holiday, and drift around Selfridges - whilst always keeping a healthy distance from the dreaded hoi polloi!

Barry has now been through it all during his short time as a reincarnated, magical, evolving blueberry. Mushroom zombie monsters, a full-scale war with a hive of wasps, the death of the king, and now an adventure through the insides of a dead God's corpse. After narrowly surviving his most recent encounter, Barry is finally ready to explore his second tier race and his brand new upgraded class.

"O Alienista" é um conto clássico escrito por Machado de Assis e publicado em 1882. A história satiriza a sociedade e a ciência da época, explorando o conceito de sanidade mental e os limites da razão humana. Com humor e ironia, Machado de Assis apresenta um enredo cativante e reflexivo.

Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers. Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian. Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru. These three women have absolutely nothing in common - except for the charming, attractive man who's been lying to all of them. Now that he's tied up in a basement...

Follow Cal Minor's journey from the depths of despair to the edge of redemption as he grapples with the consequences of his actions during a global financial crisis. When offered a chance at redemption by the elite Atlas Corp, led by the formidable Hank Henleman, Cal must navigate a treacherous path fraught with danger and deceit.

Bloomsbury presents Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall, read by Rachel Noe Nishizawa. Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall. In this brash and...

The History of England from Henry IV to Charles I, by a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant historian. N.B. There will be very few dates in this History! Jane Austen wrote The History of England in 1791, at the age of just 15, as a satirical parody of 18th-century historical textbooks. It pokes fun at the apparent impartiality of contemporary historians and contains more opinions about the monarchs’ relative characters than any facts or dates. The History of England was not published until 1922, more than a century after Austen’s death.

Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother’s legacy. On the night of Maren’s annual New Year’s Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It’s a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power—and a trigger for a spiraling descent into paranoia and blind ambition.

For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as nothing more than an unfortunate accident. It's more difficult, however, to explain away the strangled corpse of a man found inside a locked room, surrounded by rare and obscure erotica.

When a pile of sh!t from space lands near a renowned filmmaker’s set, inspiration strikes. Take a journey up a cosmic mountain of excrement with the director and his film crew as they ascend into madness led only by their own vanity and obsession. This is a nightmare about creation. This is a dream about poop. This is a call to arms against vowels.

We'll dive into the wild world of indifference, exploring the nonchalant, the absurd, and the plain silly aspects of everyday existence. From the art of not caring to the mysteries of social media, from office absurdities to domestic dilemmas, we're about to embark on a humorous journey through the "Who Cares?" moments of life.

For the last year Eric's life has been going pretty smoothly. The family are settled. His new job is going well, apart from the fact that Abi refuses to acknowledge his existence now she is at the same school. He is even trying his hand at dating again. Best of all he is finally finding the time to get back to his roots and do a little digging in the allotment. That is until the greed of a faceless property developer looms over his little slice of tranquility.

When Abi secretly enters Eric and Daisy into a magazine competition, she never expected them to win. Now with the clock ticking and long kept secrets emerging from the past, the pressure is on. Learning to juggle a new relationship and an all or nothing deadline, sees Eric back to his old eccentric ways. But if he doesn’t strike the right balance he could lose more than the competition prize, he could lose his shot at happily ever after…

Life has finally settled down for Eric Sibley and his family; Abi and Mabel are happy, his mother-in-law is on hand for support, and life has begun to have a sense of normalcy and routine to it. But, with cash flows running low, Eric has to acknowledge it is time to re-enter the world of employment. Unfortunately, jobs suited to former high-flying recruitment executives are of short supply in the sleepy town of Burlam.

In seventy-two hours, a blockbuster expose will reveal Victoria Stevens's multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout—and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Opting for the latter, he takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which one of the world's biggest problems to "eradicate forever."

Certainly not the twins at the heart of the matter of all things Apocalypse, Calvin and Trent, who soon must decide what—or rather whom—they’re willing to sacrifice in order to delay your world’s dying gasps. Definitely not the high school principal, Gary Mustafa, whose hyperfixation on balloons will leave your mind only loosely tethered to your head. Then there’s Love and Yew, the former government hacker and ex-reality TV star, the latter a psychedelic therapist who thinks she’s better than you. The less said about these two women, the better.

My best friend’s brother broke my heart five years ago. He left me behind after our summer together to chase his dreams in Nashville. Now he’s back, all rich and famous, and my best friend wants us to write a song together for her wedding. The last thing I want to do is write a love song with the man who broke my heart, but I love my best friend too much to tell her no. He starts trying to win me back again with grand gestures and flirty lines, but I can’t give in. My mother chased my biological father down for years, and all it led to was heartbreak. I won’t repeat her mistakes.

'Full of kindness, even tenderness... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long, The Times Richly imagined and...

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself not merely a fish out of water, but a very big fish in a small pond. He awakens to find himself tied to the ground by the natives of Lilliput—tiny people small enough to fit in his pocket and play hide and seek in his hair!

Дьяволиада — сатирическая повесть знаменитого русского писателя, драматурга и театрального деятеля Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова (1891–1940). Товарищ Коротков служит делопроизводителем на спичечном заводе и вполне уверен в завтрашнем дне. Но в один прекрасный день сотрудникам завода объявляют, что жалованья не будет — денег нет. А еще через пару дней жалованье все-таки дают, но не деньгами, а... спичками. Славу и признание Михаилу Булгакову принесли его произведения "Богема", "В кафе", "Красная корона", "Воспоминание", "Вьюга", "Грядущие перспективы", "День нашей жизни", "Пропавший глаз", "Звёздная сыпь", "О пользе алкоголизма".