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The hilarious new satire from the bestselling author of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series There’s only one idea more foolish than dividing Ireland – and that’s trying to put it back together again. Meet Fiach O’Bric: career diplomat, recent widower, and a man looking forward to a peaceful...

When Lady Miss returns to her great-aunt's church in New Orleans to plan the funeral of the beloved Mother Miss Pearline, she discovers that the humble congregation of her youth has been transformed into a megachurch conglomerate run by holograms, subscriptions, and an AI named Earncybot. At the center of it all is the scheming Illuminate Slanders, a woman with five dead husbands, a suspicious will, and a dangerous plan to upload every church member's consciousness into her AI network.

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. *Contains an exclusive bonus chapter!* Featured as 'best books about female rage' in Stylist ‘So engaging and easy to get lost in. I couldn’t put it down’ ★★★★★ ‘All the twists, all the...

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. *Contains an exclusive bonus chapter!* Featured as 'best books about female rage' in Stylist ‘So engaging and easy to get lost in. I couldn’t put it down’ ★★★★★ ‘All the twists, all the...

Kay Brazen used to be famous. Don't ask her what for, you won't hear the end of it—but not anymore. After being evicted from her penthouse apartment and being forgotten by all who previously loved her, she embarks on a series on confrontations with those who she's wronged (or wronged her), with increasingly hilarious and explosive results.

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.

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...

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. 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...

A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival—with a new introduction by James Wood. Richard Tull, a failed and disillusioned novelist, seethes with envy as he watches his longtime friend Gwyn Barry, a talentless...

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...

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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.