Humorous Fiction

Synopsis Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's di...

Synopsis One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is ...

Synopsis How to Build a Girl is a 2014 coming-of-age novel by English author and journalist Caitlin Moran, published by Ebury Press. The novel is s...

Synopsis The next round in the beloved Two Pints series from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of bestselling author of The Commitme...

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

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 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...