Ten masterworks of short fictionby turns tender, comic, powerful, and devastatingfrom the highly praised author of The Madonnas of LeningradA surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention.
A splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between in this newest entry in Terry Pratchetts internationally bestselling Discworld series.
The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts theAnkh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence -- some would even say lucky -- until he started killing people.
"e;May you live in interesting times"e; is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life.
"e;Readers will appreciate the well-drawn, saucy characters and witty exchanges that garnish Andersen's latest (following Be My Baby) rags-to-riches romance.
* SOON TO BE A MINDY KALING TV SERIES ** A Book of the Month pick by CNN, Bustle, PopSugar, Entertainment Weekly and Vox ** One ofThe Washington Posts 10 Best Books of 2021 ** Longlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize *';Achingly familiar and marvellously inventive a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel' Celeste Ng';Completelyoriginal, utterly absorbing, complex and confident'Karen Joy Fowler';Truly funny, insightful, smart and filled with wonderful characters unmissable' Ann NapolitanoANYONE CAN BE EXTRAORDINARY.
A Hollywood insider and director of Friends delivers a scathingly brilliant and caustically comedic bird's-eye view behind the scenes of comedy television.
Sharing Sean is a fabulously entertaining, and comedic debut novel in which four women in their late thirtieswith no time, or desire for a full time relationshiphatch a plan to "e;share"e; a man.
An anonymous author has turned English society upside down, and only one man can protect her identity from being revealed, and her life from being destroyed, in this sexy new romance from reader favourite Jacquie DAlessandro.
That lovable, under-undermedicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeancejust as his cherished home state is about to take a beating from a conga line of hurricanes bearing down on the peninsula.
I cant figure out if this book is a heart-felt dispatch from the front line in the battle of the sexes or a brilliant send-up of the way in which the male point of view has been misrepresented by militant feminists.
The compulsively readable and sinfully gossipy tale of five Hollywood personal assistants who band together to turn the tables on their celebrity employerswritten by a former personal assistant to a star.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate returns with his fifteenth book of poetry, an exciting new collection that offers nearly one hundred fresh and thought-provoking pieces that embody Tate's trademark style and voice: his accessibility, his dark humor, and his exquisite sense of the absurd.
A book-hating bookshop owner and a hopeless romantic author discover that love isn't always by the book in this charming bookish, opposites-attract romantic comedy, perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert and Lyssa Kay Adams.
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.
Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemn's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance!
'I love Sarah's novels because they are a burst of pure happiness' Cathy Kelly'A gorgeous Christmas gift of a book - big-hearted, cosy and joyful' Lucy Diamond'Unputdownable and gorgeous, I adored Snowed in for Christmas.
The author of the hit parody The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadfully Teddy draws on the simple, idyllic world of Beatrix Potter to shed light on some of the most pertinent issues of our time.
