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For now, and for our purposes here, every man is Bob. A blisteringly funny and sharp-edged beauty of a debut novel about a newly engaged couple house-sitting for a wealthy artist in a remote manor, whose relationship unravels into a darkly elemental absurdist romp The heroine of The Fig Book is...

Mit dem ihm eigenen Humor und Sound erzählt David Schalko in neunzehneinhalb Kurzgeschichten von den seltsamen Träumen, täglichen Krisen und bizarren Obsessionen dieser eigenartigen Spezies Mensch.

Already an international sensation, this darkly funny and provocatively visceral novel introduces one of contemporary fiction's most unforgettable heroines: a gifted butcher whose greatest longing is to become a mother. For Esther, life is simple and beautiful. Born in a Finnish industrial town...

Heather, a young performance artist with middling talent but flawless instincts for self-promotion, becomes an emblem of our times. As she prepares a work that promises ultimate revelation, her sense of the real begins to disintegrate. By smashing apart the circuit board of late-capitalist life...

Cementing her mastery across genres, Catherine Lacey returns with a new collection of visceral and absurdist short fiction. Across the nine stories in My Stalkers, Catherine Lacey’s second collection of short fiction, women are constantly confronted with the thrill, banality, and horror of...

A literary fantasia chronicling one man's quest to understand his father and himself—a comic, psychedelic novel from the award-winning author of The Hundred Brothers “To have a new Donald Antrim novel enter the world is like having a comet reappear: It marks the arrival of an otherworldly...

A collection of twenty-six shocking, awe-inducing short stories! A doctor tells a patient they can speak only one thousand words before their life ends. Someone’s boyfriend turns into a can of mackerel. A woman is in her sixth year of pregnancy. This mysterious world is full of laughter and...

I am having problems relating to my crew member, having never been a great fan of cats, nor they of birds. Why have we been press ganged into service together? What can they hope to achieve by sending this absurd duo out to sea? I am an owl. The Cat is a cat... In Pea Green Boat, Stewart Lee and...

Have you ever been dead certain that you’re being observed, that maybe your very existence is predicated on how others see you? A few minutes after she’s become convinced she’s the victim of a home invasion, In the Round’s brilliant and intimate narrator plunges us into a feminist...

'Profoundly surreal, intensely melancholic and boldly exploratory.' - DAMODAR MAUZO 'N. Prabhakaran's tales restore our sense of delight, not just in this literary form but in the crying human need for retrieving, remembering, retelling experience.' - ANJUM HASAN 'Vividly imagined and narrated...

As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building’s residents to the basement increases, children block out reality with the toys at hand—some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionable improvisations. Maša Kolanović’s Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity.

Gespräch mit einer Mumie ist eine satirische Kurzgeschichte von Edgar Allan Poe, erstveröffentlicht in The American Review im April 1845. Der namenlos bleibende Ich-Erzähler berichtet von einem schweren Kater, der ihn veranlasste, nach einem üppigen Abendessen, bestehend aus fünf Pfund Welsh Rabbit und ebenso vielen Flaschen braunem Stout, frühzeitig das Bett aufzusuchen. Doch wird er wieder aufgeweckt durch eine Botschaft seines Freundes Dr. Ponnonner (= Upon honor).

THE BOTHERING OF CTHULHUAn Eldritch LampoonTHE STARS ARE RIGHT. CTHULHU IS NOT IN THE MOOD.For countless eons, the Great Old One has slumbered beneath the Pacific Ocean, dreaming unspeakable dreams of cosmic destruction, universal madness, and unusually affectionate female demon manatees...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One unforgettable family. One Caribbean adventure. And a teenage girl about to discover her own rhythm! The Hendersons are back aboard the luxurious Royal Aurelia, and their extraordinary world cruise is taking them from the Amazon toward the vibrant...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One unforgettable family. One Italian adventure. And one man who simply cannot stop measuring things! The Hendersons are back aboard the luxurious Royal Aurelia, and their extraordinary world cruise is taking them into the beautiful Mediterranean! Their...

Ethan Essig wakes up every morning disappointed to find he’s still himself—a bitter, burnt-out pornographer running a company on the brink of collapse with a soul teetering on the edge of immolation. Over the course of one surreal week, Ethan will gamble everything on salvation: paging through the Awesome Bible (the Bible, but awesomer), seeking redemption from a Baptist pastor, and trading insults with a foul-mouthed portrait of Jesus himself.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Kauppamatkustaja Gregor Samsa herää eräänä aamuna levottomien unien jälkeen ja huomaa muuttuneensa valtavaksi syöpäläiseksi. Oven takana perhe tivaa, miksei hän ole jo lähtenyt töihin. Gregor yrittää vastata, mutta kurkusta kumpuava ääni...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **Look Up, Hendersons! — The Family Who Went Up the River** *All Aboard the Hendersons — Book Eight* **One unforgettable family. One legendary river. And an adventure that will change the way they see the world!** The Hendersons are back, and their...

Blaming herself for her sister's fatal zoo accident, Maya overdoses in her mother's attic. Far away, a cafeteria employee named Claudio is gunned down on a university campus. The two of them meet in the afterlife, where a science-obsessed angel pushes people towards life-changing insights...

A FICTIONAL RAZOR-SHARP, DARKLY HILARIOUS SATIRE ON MASCULINITY, THIS IS THE STORY OF BEN FORD, A MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS IN CONTROL, UNTIL CONTROL BECAME HIS PRISON. Through a whirlwind of hilarious stories, outrageous 'escapades', and a therapist whose unconventional approach challenges Ben in ways no one else can, the book delivers sharp laughs without ever losing sight of its emotional core.