Satirical fiction and parodies

The Number One Global Sensation*Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year**Amazon Book of the Year**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**Fiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards*'Addictive' Grazia'Hugely entertaining' Observer'Provocative' Mail on SundayTHIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.

Willkommen zurück im lauschigen Zwielicht der Hochseeganoven!

First published in 1818, "e;Nightmare Abbey"e; Is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock and his third long work of fiction.

Die abenteuerliche Geschichte eines modernen Don Quijote, der voller Zuversicht und Tatendrang die Mission verfolgt, Nachhaltigkeit, Identitätspolitik und Wokeness in die Provinz zu tragen.

Kampagnenmanager Frank Fischbach hat alles erreicht, was er wollte: Macht, einen ihm ergebenen Kanzler, eine erfolgreiche Freundin, ein rasant expandierendes Unternehmen.

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody.

'A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy' - ENIGMA'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative .

'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin.

Der satirische Hochseekrimi von P.

BELIEBTER SATIRIKER, SCHAUSPIELER – UND BEGNADETER ROMANCIER: OTTO GRÜNMANDL.

Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, a standalone Discworld novel.

After failing to maintain a successful practice as a surgeon, Lemeul Gulliver departs London for the excitement of the open seas.

Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn.

AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story that's acid-etched and full of heart, intimate, and relevant' Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away'Every woman should read this book.

'Bridget Jones meets menopause.

'A bittersweet work, tough and touching at the same time.

»Das komischste und aktuellste Epos über die amerikanische Demokratie«Boston GlobeDie USA befinden sich im Wandel.

Everyone knows about the immaculate conception and the crucifixion.

Richard Whately (1787-1863) was an English rhetorician, academic, logician, philosopher, theologian, and economist.

Bridesmaids meets Black Mirror in the most twisted and entertaining thriller of 2022.

The Sunday Times bestselling novel from viral sensation, @MammyBanterA hilarious warts-and-all novel about modern motherhood - and how having it all sometimes isn't what you think it might be.

With a modest upbringing and an ordinary profession, Shibli considers himself to be an average Persian man.

Though he's the illegitimate nephew of a German baron, Candide grows up in a castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss.

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This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an Indian-born English author, novelist, and illustrator.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616 NS) was a Spanish writer.

In this explosive first-person account of swapping the White House for the Big House, Donald Trump aims to Make Prison Great Again.

In the middle of a gang war, wanted for murder, truly alone and outside the law, Detective Inspector LeBrock is on the run from both the police and gangster assassins, the victim of a diabolical scheme to annihilate himself and everyone he holds dear, engineered by mastermind crime lord Tiberius Koenig, one of the most despicable villains in the history of detective fiction.

Dying is the best way to revive your musical career .

Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the seventh book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels.

The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce.

In a society of anthropomorphised canines, Gissing, a debonair young dog about town, adopts some orphaned puppies and begins to yearn for a more meaningful existence than his pleasant life in suburban Canine Estates.

A wickedly funny dystopian parody set in a financially apocalyptic future America, from the critically acclaimed author of Triburbia.

'A thrill for the sickos among us' JIA TOLENTINO'Utterly inimitable' RAVEN LEILANI'Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN'The funniest, darkest thing' ST VINCENTLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONAn audacious, original and unforgettable novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.

Vor dem großen Knall: die letzte Satire der Sowjetunion.

A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy & Son is a quietly moving masterpiece from one of Ireland's most gifted comic writers.

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven.

'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' Time OutThe plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar territory.

This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Witches series, part of the Discworld novels.

'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature'.

Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow.

Over the span of a century, the Pontifex family is populated by manipulative and domineering characters attempting to control the fate of the next generation.

'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today.

A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes.

The razor-sharp, violent and darkly comic second novel from actor, comedian and writer Ardal O'Hanlon.