Humorous fiction

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love.

Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring.

Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided to End It All.

Poppy Carew has just been dumped by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Edmund, when her beloved and eccentric father dies, leaving Poppy one last request - that she ensure he is buried in style by a 'fun' undertaker - and one large fortune.

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - winner of the 2022 British Book Awards.

As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter.

'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone.

The worst has happened.

Fresh from Los Angeles, Mrs Pearl Collingwood and her daughter Rona arrive in the frenzied no-man's-land of Heathrow airport: from the nearby village of Bedmansworth, Edward Richardson jets in and out of it faster than his marriage can tolerate.

It's a big night at the London Palladium.

Frank Inigo Savage simply wants to be alone and the top flat of Kensington Heights seems just the place.

Dangerous is back.

Meet Samantha Joyce.

Sometime novelist and critic, now literary hack and occasional lecturer at provincial universities, Geoffrey Shadbold has long rested on the laurels of what was once a promising career.

A chilling portrait of life under Communist rule by Albania's most important writerIt's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania.

Discover a beautiful story about what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne TylerHow does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?

Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now a Regular Army sergeant defending the Empire in the beds and bars of Hong Kong.

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.

Kurt Vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in Bluebeard.

Meet Jacob Smith, your good-old British policeman.

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry.

A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino.

In Enniskillen, Co.

Frank Ritz is a television critic.

Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature.

In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question.

Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work.

Marion Bishop's life has fallen apart.

'Martin Amis at his best.

A phenomenal writer Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ANDREW O'HAGANJohn Self is a consumer extraordinaire.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODOnce close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.

Seit einer Stunde saß Samuel, der Gärtner Gottes, mit seinem blonden Schützling in seinem Zelt zusammen.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;MRS.

'[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriott, and every bit as endearing.

A heartbreaking and hilarious novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious PeopleEveryone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house.

'A moving and intelligent comedy about finding love without losing yourself.

A love letter to Jane Austen and to the power of reading by an icon of British literature'Wise and wonderfully funny' The Times'Splendid'Guardian'It should be required reading'New York Times Book ReviewA special new edition of a modern classic, celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday: blending truth and fiction, the delightful collection of letters Fay Weldon sent her 'niece' about reading Jane Austen, the act of creation and the joys of writingIn this charming sequence of fictional letters - inspired by those Jane Austen sent to her own niece - 'Aunt Fay' writes to her niece Alice, an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring writer with green hair and zero interest in reading Austen for her college English class.

From My Legendary Girlfriend to Half a World Away, Mike Gayle's bestselling novels have taken his millions of readers through many key times for the modern man - friendship, courtship, stag weekends, marriage, work, holidays, significant birthdays - and Seeing Other People is no different.

Now in paperback and ebook: David Nicholls's new novel You Are Here Us: a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and childrenLonglisted for the Booker Prize'Perfect' INDEPENDENT 'I honestly can't imagine loving a novel much more' SUNDAY TIMES 'I loved this book.

From the author of Ayesha at Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of Youve Got Mail, set in two competing halal restaurants Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighbourhood.

A #1 Indie bestseller and a Canadian bestseller for 22 weeks, the brilliant latest novel from one of Canadas foremost authorsInspired by a handful of postcards sent nearly a hundred years ago, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace long-lost uncle Leroy and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe.

Amira Khanhas no plans to break her no-dating rule.

Pride and Prejudice with a modern twistAYESHA SHAMSI hasa lotgoing on.

A story of mid-life and second chances from Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, and his wife Anne BuistSoon to be a film produced by Ellen DeGeneresTwo misfits walk 2,000 kilometres along the Camino de Santiagoto find themselves and, perhaps, each other along the way.

What's next for Allan Karlsson?

What if the only way forward is to go back?

A madcap new novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of SwedenHitman Anders, recently out of prison, is doing small jobs for the big gangsters.

A generational family comedy for fans of Eligible, This Is Where I Leave You, Heartburn and televisions This Is Us It isnt easy being related to a feminist icon, especially when shes celebrating the greatest moment of her storied career.

First published in 1916, Further Foolishness is a collection of Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock's humour sketches.