A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects.
A debut novel in the vein of Liane Moriarty and Tom Perrotta, about dark secrets brought to life after the mysterious death of a handsome and charismatic trainer to the elite women in Santa Monica.
Sieben Jahre nach dem Tode von Rudolf Augstein erhob Martin Walser erstmals im November 2009 Anspruch auf die Vaterschaft von dessen altestem Sohn Jakob.
Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the fifth book in the Witches series, part of the Discworld novels.
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 [.
A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects.
'I can wholeheartedly confirm that Susie Donkin is funnier than Shakespeare' MEL GIEDROYC'Impeccably researched, contagiously enjoyable, highly recommended.
A tale of financial skulduggery reminiscent of recent city scandals Daily Telegraph Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it into turmoil.
Ernest Hemingway's first piece of long-form literature, The Torrents of Spring, is a satirical novella that the great American author wrote in just ten days and is a rare early example of his work.
In April 2020, at the height of the pandemic in New York City, Andrew, the assistant director of a funeral home one mile from Elmhurst Hospital, the epicenter of the epicenter, meets a legendary Coney Island witch doctor (Lelya Dorche), who makes him an offer that could better his chances of keeping his COVID-positive elderly parents and his severely asthmatic 13-year-old son, Miro, off the ever-expanding list of virus mortalities.
A Touch of Love is Jonathan Coe's delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting inRobin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis.
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's debut novel, a rich and introspective exploration of youth and self-discovery, centring Rachel Vinrace, a young woman embarking on a journey of both physical and emotional awakening.
Set between 1913 and 1963 in one of Montreal's well-known, upper-middle-class suburban neighbourhoods, Martine Desjardins's The Green Chamber is a fast-paced, highly atmospheric, riveting novel that chronicles the decline of a wealthy French-Canadian family over the course of three generations.
