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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.

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.

“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."...

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.

After a global disaster prompts thousands of impossibly unlikely deaths, a bisexual statistics professor?who has convinced herself she might not exist?and an ethically dubious government agent must travel to Las Vegas to unravel the connection between deadly bouts of absurdity and a...

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.

Spanning six decades, from a 1970s rehearsal dinner at a Malibu mansion to a crystal mine wedding in 1990s Sedona, a bachelorette party at a presidential estate in the 2000s, a penthouse ceremony in 2025, and an intergalactic courtroom in 2089, each of Lady Miss' weddings is less about the groom and more about the scheme. Whether she's blackmailing a senator, pitching a reality TV empire to her mother-in-law, or battling a tech billionaire for advertising rights on the moon, Lady Miss always has a plan, and it never goes the way she expects.

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.

In Mustard Seed they discover a massive underground complex stretching through miles of ancient lava tubes, and Mister Frostie grows up in a familiar, almost mythical mid-century small town with parks and stores and movie theatres and schools, even a miniature golf course. It's a time capsule full of people meant to preserve a tiny seed of the human experiment—just in case the human experiment blows up in the lab.

‘An absolute riot of a read' THE SCOTSMAN ‘A gleeful state-of-the-nation dystopia' DAILY MAIL A high NRG, whip-smart look at the state of modern Britain through the eyes of a disparate band of rave rebels, from the author of the acclaimed, bestselling debut The Young Team and one of...

She's fake dating the wrong guy. Enter Mr. Right. Scottie I've spent my whole life cleaning up after Jake Rodgers—the bad boy of Major League Baseball. So when his latest PR disaster threatens to send him to the minors, agreeing to fake date him feels noble. Temporary. Manageable. Then hot...

Three gifted siblings bound by a troubled upbringing navigate fame, scandal, and co-dependent relationships, revealing how their emotional dependence on one another both sustains and ultimately threatens to destroy them. When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose...

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.

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.

Catch-22 meets Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in this biting comic novel of one spy’s quest for justice—and a ray of truth—when he’s cast into a pit of bureaucratic vipers bent on never-ending expansion of the nest, even if they have to kill to do so.

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.

Ist das noch Reifeprozess oder schon Verfall? Dagmar Schönleber erzählt von den Schnäppchen und Schlaglöchern auf dem Weg in die zweite Lebenshälfte. Dieser buchgewordene Picknickkorb ist prall gefüllt mit rasanten Kurzgeschichten, Gedichten, Essays und Bühnentexten der erfolgreichen Kabarettistin. Mal philosophisch, mal haltlos überspitzt, mal tiefgründig, mal albern, aber immer humorvoll und selbstironisch spendet Dagmar Schönleber der »inneren Dreißig« Trost und bleibt doch rebellisch gegen eine Zukunft der Rückwärtsgewandten.