Humorous fiction

'A delightfully rauchy story.

Look out for the new BBC adaptation starring Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson and Mark Gatiss!

Written with the characteristic wit and good humour, Leslie Thomas's novel tells the story of a grown man who runs away from home, and the adventures that befall him in his quest for a new lease of life.

To satisfy the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people who pay good money to see stand-up every year, Malcolm Hardee ('the comedian's comedian' WHSmith Online; 'a national monument' The Guardian) presents a comedy club on the page with a bill featuring the glitterati of British stand-up comedy.

Nine days is a long time in Coolsville.

NOW A SELL-OUT PLAY: OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOURThe choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city.

Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool.

The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle.

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.

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 novel built from beginnings.

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.

A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England s finest fiction writers'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman.

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.

Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare.

'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' ObserverSmooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;MRS.

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.

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

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

What if the only way forward is to go back?

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

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock's quintessentially Canadian take on life in small-town Ontario.

Der ­Soziologe Dieter Prokop hat eine unterhaltsame, leicht satirische Erzählung über Politik geschrieben.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a loser's manifesto, Rejection radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious nihilism as he realises that his feminism isn’t getting him laid and a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

A Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Electric Literature and more.

‘Blistering … takes a magnifying glass to the mind of the internet age’ VOGUE

‘An excruciating examination of modern losers in psychic distress’ THE TIMES

‘Tulathimutte is a pervert and a madman and a stone-cold genius’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of In the Dream House

‘Audacious and painful and addictive … I loved it’ RUFI THORPE, author of Margo's Got Money Troubles

‘The funniest, darkest thing – it’s like Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground meets Instagram’ ST. VINCENT

‘You will be crawling out of your skin from the very first words’ JIA TOLENTINO, author of Trick Mirror

From award-winning author Tim Downs comes this warmhearted story of mistaken identity and unlikely redemption that will have you both laughing and looking at life from a higher perspective.