"Hilariously funny. . . . Lydia Millet's novels raise the bar for boldness."―Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip―our opinionated, skeptical narrato...

This fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends is "a delightful literary novel…extraordinarily imaginative" (Psychology Today) from Man Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz—for fans of ...

Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life―creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in he...

How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? When headhunter Fabrice Valentine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undertake a course of hypnotherapy to rid himself of the habit. At first the treatment works, but his stress level...

‘Do you have to stare like that?’ I asked.‘Think about the actors in porn. They’ve got no problem showing themselves off.’‘Think about when I broke your nose,’ I replied.Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatp...

The new book from the anonymous author of the international bestselling Bourbon Kid series. Everything seems peaceful in the small town of B Movie Hell until a mysterious serial killer in a skull mask topped with a red mohawk shows ...

A Miscellany of Men is a classic text from G.K. Chesterton is a collection of humorous short stories and English essays which includes: The suffragist -- The poet and the cheese -- The thing -- The man who thinks backwards -- The name...

A brilliant new collection from one of American literature's most original and hilarious purveyors of dark comedy Silenced by the horrors of Nazi Germany, a Jewish satirist is inspired to write again by his biggest fan: Joseph Goebbel...

An irreverent black comedy about sex, drugs, murder… and children's baseball. Dwayne Devero is just like you and me, except he simply doesn't give a s**t any more. He's had enough. He's done with people living life wrong. You'll do ...

In a work of blistering dark hilarity, a young Nietzsche experiences life in a metal band & the tribulations of finals season in a modern secondary schoolWhen a new student transfers in from a posh private school, he falls in with a g...

Every student has a story...But you won't find it here. Dark, profane, and absurd, this comedy follows the journey of a young teacher on a misguided adventure to resurrect dead dreams. After being let go from his first school, the nam...

This classic collection of humourous essays from Jerome K. Jerome includes, Are We As Interesting As We Think We Are? Should Women Be Beautiful? When Is The Best Time To Be Merry? Do We Lie A-Bed Too Late? Should Married Men Play Golf...

AN AMAZON LITERATURE & FICTION BEST-SELLER!⠀⠀⠀⠀Elevator Music is a virtuoso performance by the best-selling author of novels Biflocka and A Lion In Your Number. It is the story of you, _______, a young man who has 24-hours...

William Meridian, weatherman for a big city television station, seems on his way to a contented marriage and a safe career until a series of events shatter the cohesion of both his personal and professional lives, and steer him into a...

. . . This book is a fictional detailed account of the author starting a new career at the same time as discovering the beauty of scotch single malt whiskies just before scotch whisky started to become fashionable again, and appreciat...

If all goes according to plan, tonight will be Jack Current's last. The young engineer is at the end of his emotional rope and plans to take his own life. But first, a bar crawl through his downtown Cincinnati neighborhood is in order...

A New York Times Editor’s Choice “Cinematic and confessional—electric.” —The New York Times “Written in funny, punchy vignettes perfect for consumption between U-Bahn stops, and a few hours in...

This debut novel—told in interviews—spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement.In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the "personality movement," an integrative approach...

A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience. A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine It...

Every adventure starts as a fool's journey, and if you're lucky it ends with the aeon, but that's just the Tarot talking. No one really believes this mystical hocus-pocus nonsense, no more than they believe in divinity or fate.But wha...

A Times (of London) Best Fiction Book of 2022 "...Clever lines drop down on these pages like flowers thrown on a casket...[a] zany, increasingly dark comedy..." — The Washington Post A wildly inventive, savag...

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