Humorous Fiction

Synopsis Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero, returns to battle bureaucrats, politicians, terrorists and much more, at Fenland College. Hen...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award. Book of the Year in The Times. Things don't go entirely to plan when undercover ace dete...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Costa Book Awards 2020, and various other awards. The darkly-comic story of Majella, who is unapologetically and com...

Synopsis 44 Scotland Street - Book #7 The residents and neighbours of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gent...

Synopsis What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At onc...

Synopsis The bestselling author of Love Byte is back with this laugh-out-loud hilarious rom com. Getting hit by a bus was the best thing that eve...

Synopsis International Bestseller. A Guardian literary highlight for 2015.A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' in 2015. Cheryl Glickman believes in r...

Synopsis Bold, brilliant and hilarious Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller . . . COW [n.] /ka / A piece of meat; born to breed; past its sell-by-date...

Synopsis A wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940's Rio de Janeiro. Euridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 19...

Synopsis 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving ...

Synopsis Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new serie...

Synopsis Marina Lewycka explores the clash of the generations in one extremely colourful family in her comic novel Various Pets Alive and Dead. For...

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

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

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 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 An irresistible French sensation The Reader on the 6.27 explores the power of books through the lives of the people they save. It is sure ...

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 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 Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social...

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...