DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL 'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily MailIn 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.
Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically Americana dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.
Discover the man behind the moustache in this book of one-liners by the world's most famous Belgian detective, revealing the wit and wisdom of Hercule Poirot and his creator, Agatha Christie.
From the bestselling author of 'Eats Shoots & Leaves', an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.
Die Vielgeliebte ist ein ungewöhnliches und ungewöhnlich attraktives weibliches Wesen: Anmutig und vital, verständnisreich und selbstbewusst, zieht sie die Männer der Stadt Wien auf so faszinierende wie unwiderstehliche Art an.
Wer eine unkonventionelle und kreative Interpretation der biblischen Weihnachtsgeschichte lesen will, sollte zu diesem Buch greifen: Satire-Spezialist Lorenz Meyer versetzt die Geschichte über die Geburt Jesu in das literarische Setting bekannter Autor:innen.
In this set of short stories, Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake.
Boris Johnson's first novel, Seventy-Two Virgins is a no-holds-barred political satire, a comic romp peopled with a gallery of grotesques which lampoons both the absurdities and the extremes of modern society.
Michael Köhlmeier hat etwas Ungewöhnliches gewagt: Seinen Homer im Kopf, hat er in vierzehn Rundfunkfolgen die Sagen des klassischen Altertums frei erzählt.
Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
A shocking crimeA mansion filled with suspectsRuth Van Rydock can't shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen to her sister at Stonygates house.
'Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder' ObserverLife is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.
For suspense, ingenuity and sheer comic effrontery this takes the absolute, appetizing biscuit' Sunday TimesHigh in the Mid-Yorkshire Dales stands the traditional village of Enscombe, seemingly untouched by the modern world.
Janey undergoes, as if in a fairytale, a nightmare journey of exploitation - first incest, then abortions, a job selling cookies to the chi-chi bourgois of Brooklyn, a one-sided love affair with the leader of punk gang THE SCORPIONS, and finally is sold into the white slave trade in the middle east.
To British privateer Ethan Sharpe, Grace Chastain was nothing but a pawn for vengeance against Harmon Jeffries, the traitor responsible for his brutal years in prison.
The madness lying beneath the surface of life in Florida today is revealed in this manic tale of murder and mayhem from the acclaimed author of Orange Crush, Hammerhead Ranch Motel and Florida Roadkill - comic crime at its finest.
With imagination and authenticity Joan Aiken captures the customs and language of Austen's England in this one of a kind sequel to Jane Austen's classic novel, Mansfield Park, revealing a subversive and unique heroine.
This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, 'Detective Writers in England', in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.
