Humorous Fiction

Synopsis The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #8 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive is the eighth in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Women's Prize For Fiction 2019. Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2019. " . . . blood is thicker - and more difficult ...

Synopsis The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #7 There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Pr...

Synopsis A brilliant romantic comedy exploring beach basics for the broken-hearted from number one bestselling author Mike Gayle. Their holiday b...

Synopsis First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a ma...

Synopsis The Diary of a Nobody is one of the great classics of English humour. Mrs. Pooter's Diary is more than a brilliant homage to the origina...

Synopsis Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018. Less is a satirical comedy novel by American author Andrew Sean Greer first published in ...

Synopsis Bob Servant #3 Bob Servant is troubled. The economy is collapsing, his health is failing and around his hometown of Broughty Ferry, Bob ...

Synopsis Happy to Be Here is a collection of short stories by Garrison Keillor, first published in hardcover by Viking in 1981. It is Keillor's fir...

Synopsis The Twitter Diaries tells the story of pen pals for the 21st Century. Two parallel lives separated by an ocean but united over a social ne...

Synopsis From the bestselling author of Starter For Ten, One Day and Us. For Josh Harper, being in show-business means everything he ever wanted - ...

Synopsis Dirk Gently #2 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Ad...

Synopsis Dirk Gently #1 Douglas Adams' 'thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic' and beloved cult ...

Synopsis An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting li...

Synopsis Comic novel about old age and the trouble which such a state brings. Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis...

Synopsis This is the second novel in the "Corduroy Mansions" series by Alexander McCall Smith. In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlic...

Synopsis Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Mau...

Synopsis A powerful, contemporary & humorous novel set in London from a master of literary fiction. London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Ov...

Synopsis A comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bo...

Synopsis When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine - and a dashing sommelier - he's left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He...

Synopsis From the acclaimed author of The Biology of Luck comes a hilarious, Kafkaesque satire. Arnold Brinkman is a shy and retiring botanist; he...

Synopsis Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part in Douglas Adams' much-loved cult classic series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This e...

Synopsis The intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent begin in the first volume of the 'trilogy of five', Douglas Adams' comedy sci-fi classic The H...

Synopsis Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - e...

Synopsis Families. Sometimes They're a bloody nightmare . . .  Life with the Radleys : Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and...

Synopsis Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tr...

Synopsis Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage flo...

Synopsis The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable as...

Synopsis Angelique De Xavier #3 If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a gr...

Synopsis Explores the complex lives of five very different men, When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub,...