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From beloved comedian and New York Times bestselling author Jamie Loftus comes The Tower, a forbidden love story between an architect and the building of her dreams. If you build her, she will come. Ariel Anshelm is an architect with a secret: she’s fallen in love with her own blueprint. Alma...

From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes NEWPHORIA!, a playful yet biting dystopian satire about what happens if we get the future we deserve. It's 2075 and time once again for the annual Senecan Games, a fight-to-the-death tournament in which the sinful are contestants, as...

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.

Meet Jules, a single mum juggling a demanding job at an exclusive prep-school and raising her 11-year-old son, and love is the last thing on her mind. But all of that changes when she meets Nate and they immediately hit it off. Nate is charming, funny, and seemingly perfect, that is until the first parent-teacher conference of the year. With the knowledge that he is a parent, Jules is faced with a difficult decision: risk her job and security to purse love, or play it safe and miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime connection.

The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so, he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Otherwise, he works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang), who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner and also a one-room apartment in the small eastern German town of Kana.

Can comedians Guz Khan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe survive six thrilling choose-your-own-adventure survival scenarios? The clue’s in the title… Survival novices Guz and Kiell are being thrown in to a game that sees them reckoning with deadly environments where almost everything they encounter is trying to kill them. Join them in the studio to discover if these self-proclaimed semi-competent men make the right choices to survive a litany of dangers, including vomiting vultures, volcanic eruptions, shipwrecks, reindeer cyclones, sperm whale poonados and crotch rot.

Ein brennender Tesla in der mecklenburgischen Provinz markiert den Nullpunkt: Roger Ross, frisch gefeuert und ohne Gepäck, flieht in das Luxusresort »Eden« und erfindet sich radikal neu. Doch das Hotel ist keine Zuflucht, sondern eine prunkvolle Endstation für die Illusionen unserer Zeit...

UNA NOVEL·LA BRILLANT. UNA CELEBRACIÓ DE LA VIDA. Amb la lucidesa, l'humor i la rauxa d'Empar Moliner Quan a la Clàudia Pruna li anuncien que li queda poc temps de vida, decideix organitzar la seva desaparició d'una manera tan pragmàtica com insòlita, continuar publicant els seus articles...

The Stupid Ways to Die series is a globally-minded, darkly funny, affectionately sarcastic survey of the most creative, most avoidable, and most uniquely local ways that humans have found to accidentally check out early. Each volume focuses on a single country or region, celebrating the specific intersection of culture, geography, wildlife, and optimism that makes each nation's flavor of preventable death distinctly its own.

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...

British politics faces its extinction event. Political satire for a country that has forgotten how to laugh together. For fans of The Thick of It. Disgraced MPs saving the country. Yep, seriously. The Right Members Club has existed for over four hundred years to protect British politics from one thing: competence. Membership is reserved for disgraced MPs. Mark Fallow fits perfectly. Newly elected, immediately ruined, nationally humiliated. Then everything breaks.

Der Reality-Star Roman erschafft sich im Hotel Love eine perfekte Frau, die Androidin Julia. Ihr einziges Ziel: Roman glücklich zu machen. Blöderweise kommt es anders als gedacht. Die Männerpartei ist an der Macht. Frauenrechte werden über Nacht abgeschafft. Propagiert wird die »neue Familie«, bestehend aus einem Mann, einer Roboterfrau und einem künstlich produzierten (menschlichen) Sohn. Der Reality-Star Roman ist besessen von seiner Ex-Freundin Julia und erschafft sich eine Androidin nach Julias Vorbild – perfekt aussehend, gehorsam, dazu programmiert, Roman glücklich zu machen.

On Earth, women govern, manage business, and make the important decisions. Men are considered emotional, impractical, and increasingly difficult to find. For young Ferdinand Sparling, a voyage to Venus begins aboard a spaceship crowded with hundreds of women hoping to secure husbands on the...

The debut novel by Indie author James Wright, Friends With Death is a cosy horror comedy that will have you laughing out loud, trembling with fear, and designing cosplay & fan art of this delightfully pleasant characterisation of the Grim Reaper.

You're only old once. Time for a new adventure... Sunday Times bestselling author Deborah Moggach revisits her best-loved setting in the follow-up novel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 'THANK GOD for Deborah Moggach' Independent 'The Moggach miracle continues' The Times A generation after we...

'TRULY REMARKABLE, HILARIOUS, A TRIUMPH' EMMA THOMPSON 'ABSOLUTE HEAVEN' INDIA KNIGHT The debut novel from the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Why did you stay? ‘Pour yourself a drink, put on your lipstick, and pull yourself together.’ Constance released her grip from her daughter’s...

Constance Hardy is a woman of vision, certainty, and an unshakable belief that reality ought to behave with more dignity. Unfortunately for everyone around her—especially her husband Winston, a man of quiet desperation—it does not. Determined to host the defining cocktail party of the season, Constance assembles an impossible guest list of celebrities, intellectuals, social climbers, and ornamental bores. But as the evening spirals into beautifully organized chaos, it becomes increasingly clear that everyone understands exactly what they are doing—except what they are actually doing.

First published in 1975, The Unexpurgated Code is a gloriously improper manual of survival and manners for social climbers, elegant impostors, wounded underdogs and anyone attempting to navigate the absurdities of civilized life. Across hundreds of indispensable lessons, Donleavy dispenses fearless advice on improving your accent, choosing the correct neighbours, surviving disastrous parties, behaving at funerals, confronting the rich and powerful, and preserving one's dignity during even the most unlikely personal catastrophe.

Roman culte aux Etats-Unis depuis sa sortie en 1991, Fuck up donne à voir les errances d'un anti-héros attachant dans le New-York déglingué des années 80. Un roman riche, drôle et addictif à découvrir d'urgence. " Un roman culte pour plusieurs générations. " Télérama TTT " Drôle...

Grace is no longer famous. She sits alone in her New York apartment, endlessly watching reruns of herself on the reality TV show Speed Daters. Then, one evening, a man breaks in through her window. A rare, still-obsessed fan or raging incel — Grace is unsure. Before she can find out, he...