Satirical fiction and parodies

'Kurkov is hugely talented.

A delightfully illustrated cult novel, literary satire and epic adventure.

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

As every woman knows, matchmaking is no easy job.

All is not well in the state of Niagra, the America of the African continent.

Excitement is building for this year s Twammies and Clementine Darling is hotly tipped to win Best Female Singer and Political Spokesperson!

From the bestselling author of Italian Ways and Italian Neighbours comes a darkly comic new novel of murder in Veronese high societyMorris Duckworth has a dark past.

EPISODE 4 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Baxter returns as summer tutor for Clarence s grandson George and plans to weasel his way back into permanent employment.

EPISODE 1 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Clarence has to get his pig eating again or lose the fat-pig prize to his arch nemesis.

When Jack Sued Jill is the latest collection of original verse by maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis.

Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books.

There was a bloodied knife on Allbran s bed.

How did Robert Purcell, distinguished barrister and perfect specimen of the British Establishment, end up in prison?

'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.

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend.

Jane Austen meets Bridget Jones Hilarious GlamourMeet Butterfly loveable socialite, avid party-goer, inspired shopper and unwittingly acute observer.

The play script adaptation of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the City Watch series, part of the Discworld novels.

The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca LordWhile the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.

While Mortals Sleep is a smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction.

Discover the original adventure story as dreamers, fools and knights errant collide in this brilliant satire that is widely regarded as the world s first modern novel.

Over the past 21 years Jilly Cooper has written a selection of best-selling books, mixing outrageous anecdotes from the lives of her family and friends with shrewd and wicked social satire and criticism.

'He wanted very large sums of money, the friendship of titled and distinguished men, the love of beautiful women who were also famous.

WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE'Compulsively readable' Independent on SundayA discontented ad salesman finds his life changed, in the wryly funny and addictive novel from Booker-shortlisted David SzalayPaul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life - professional, sexual, weekends, the lot.

Discovered in the secret compartment of a North Italian cabinet, this enchanting manuscript may or may not be complete, and it may or may not be intended for posterity.

Collects Right Ho, Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; and Carry on, Jeeves'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven't lived [.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Carol Milford is a free-spirited young woman who marries Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

The Making of Zombie Wars is a hilarious black comedy from Aleksandar Hemon, celebrated author of The Lazarus Project.

Killer Affair by bestselling author Rebecca Chance explores British reality TV in this gripping thriller.

Each of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job.

The debut novel from much-loved writer, poet and broadcaster Clive James, Brilliant Creatures is a bold, hilarious satire of the media industry.

'The work of a master, and a master not only of language and comedy, but of feeling too' - The Sunday TimesSlaka!

Malcolm Bradbury's first novel is a timeless and brilliant fiction about the clash of cultures and generations which has beset academia since it began.

Meet Fi.

'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New York Times Book ReviewSome get all the luck but not Eugene Debs Hartke.

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.

When it isn't prison, it's hell.

When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on.

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

Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name.

The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements.

Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World.

Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower, and soldier - has become unstuck in time.

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country.

'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.

Man Booker winner Anne Enright s moving and darkly funny debut novel of sex, death and reproductionGrace is a TV producer whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel.

Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes.

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend.

Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter.