Was passiert, wenn ein preuischer Generalfeldmarschall auf Skiern, eine resolute Haushalterin mit Berliner Schnauze und ein leidgeprufter Leutnant auf die exzentrische Welt der Filmstars treffen?
Conocido sobre todo por sus celebres Viajes de Gulliver, ya publicados en esta coleccion, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) fue un satirico mordaz y un polemista incansable.
In the footsteps of Doomed to Die: An A-Z of Deaths in Tolkien, and inspired by the works of Edmund Gorey, this insightful parody breathes life into Shakespeare with an illustrated ABC of the Bard's more gruesome deaths.
'A superb satirical novelist' WASHINGTON POSTIn a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant - who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be.
In dieser Zeit, in der psychische Storungen an der Tagesordnung zu sein scheinen, sind die "e;normalen"e; Pschotherapeuten oft nicht nur finanziell sondern auch inhaltlich am Ende.
With an introduction by Jonathan LethemIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef.
An Instant New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller🔥 "e;Matt Dinniman has cooked us all up a deliciously terrifying gamer geek stew, mixing up Avatar and Ender's Game, with a dash of The Last Starfighter and Independence Day thrown in.
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction.
A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie is a riotously funny, razor-sharp tale about wanting it all He was a charismatic porn star who sold his dirty underwear.
From the author of How to Be Eaten, a darkly funny, deeply incisive (Booklist) take on the campus novel that follows a woman on the edge gigging her way through academias poor job market when she crosses paths with her old PhD adviser, whose new novel might be about her.
'An absolute riot of a read' THE SCOTSMAN'A gleeful state-of-the-nation dystopia' DAILY MAILA 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 Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever The resting place of legendary Viking warrior Egil Skallagr msson s skull, Mosfell Church is a lonely, country church, fated to be destroyed.
Four of Kurt Vonnegut s best dystopian stories, Monkey Business distils his darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life.
Welcome to the most exclusive retreat of the summer but not everyone will make it out aliveSuccession meets White Lotus in the razor-sharp follow-up to the universally acclaimed Bad Summer People--Caitlin s spending a week in paradise with the strangers who are her new colleagues.
A group of students head into a war zone, armed only with 'the power of theatre' in the first novel from the Emmy award-winning creator of Succession and Peep Show.
TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT CHANDLERMoscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier"e;.
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.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER'EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK' BELLA MACKIE'NIGHTMARISH, SHOCKING, BRILLIANT'STYLIST'MADDENING, MESMERISING, INGENIOUS'NEW YORK TIMES'INTELLIGENT, INCISIVE, INSANELY READABLE' JENNIE GODFREY'DERANGED, DARING, CLEVERLY WRITTEN'VOGUE'My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.
