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Der Hunger macht auch vor Heff, dem Chef nicht halt. Doch alles Essbare, was noch in der Firma zu finden ist, sind das Fischfutter für die beiden Fische Rich und Sharky – und die Fische selbst. Für Heff gibt es keinen Zweifel, wer hier den Kürzeren zieht. Immerhin ist er der Chef und die Fische eben nur Fische. Seine Fische. Für die er teures Geld bezahlt hat. In einem Zustand geistiger Umnachtung beschliesst der sich im Fischfutterrausch befindende Heff völlig entgegen seiner Überzeugung Geld auszugeben und ein Firmenfahrzeug zu kaufen.

Als Heff, der Chef von einer zweitägigen Geschäftsreise zurück in seine Firma kommt, trifft ihn der Schlag in Form einer wahren Lawine aus Müll. Schnell ist klar, dass seine Jungs dieses Chaos nie und nimmer bewältigen können, selbst wenn die Vermieterin noch so sehr mit der Kündigung der Räumlichkeiten droht. Also beschliesst der größenwahnsinnige Heff im ersten Putzfrauen-Casting der Welt eine Reinigungsfachkraft für seine Firma zu ermitteln.

Umweltkatastrophen, Vulkanasche, Erdbeben, Atomkriege... All diese Dinge sind für Michael nicht einmal ansatzweise so schlimm, wie auch nur einen Fuß in die Firma zu setzen, für die er arbeitet. Als sich seine Wohnung aber wegen eines durch seinen Chef ungewollt verursachten Kakerlakenangriffs in eine Quarantänezone verwandelt und er gezwungen ist, einen Tag in der Firma zu verbringen, ist seine Laune entsprechend gigantisch.

Heff hat sich mit der Mafia eingelassen! Davon sind Alex, Sven und Franz spätestens dann überzeugt, als Alex etwas von "Beton Muffensausen" aufschnappt und Heff plötzlich überstürzt das Haus verlässt. Es gibt nur eine Person, die den drei verängstigten Angestellten jetzt noch helfen kann: Michael, der externe Telefonseelsorger und persönliche Domian der Firma.

Seit Wochen knabbern Heffs Angestellte höchstens noch das Schwarze unter den Fingernägeln weg, denn ihr Chef, der einen ausgeprägten Sinn für Personalführung vermissen lässt, gibt sein Geld lieber für Fallen aus als für Nahrung seiner unterbezahlten Angestellten. Der Hunger treibt Heffs Angestellten schlussendlich zum Kühlschrank der Vermieterin, die von diesem Akt des Mundraubs allerdings alles andere als begeistert ist.

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her head. “The novel surprises us by blending visceral horror with laugh-out-loud humor...

Read by actor Alex Jennings, Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick...

Life doesn't pick winners and losers. That's for the corporations to decide. And they picked Liam Argyle for a carefree life of fame and fortune as host of the world's most popular reality show competition. After two seasons of parading about the world's biggest victims on The Grass Is Greener, he's been forced to put a happy face on one tragedy too many - and he won't turn a blind eye to the horrors of the corporate dystopian world of the 2070s any longer. Now, Liam is out to destroy the very people who made him a star.

Sal, Max and Enzo Bruschetti have proved this over a lifetime of nefarious activity that they have kept hidden from law enforcement. Nowhere in any file, on any computer is there a record of anything illegal from which they have profited. But Max has a problem. His body is getting old and his doctor has told him to take it easy. Max has decided that the time has come for the family to retire. But when young actor Harry Murphy overhears the Bruschetti brothers planning changes to their organization.

Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust.

Bubba’s back from Fairyland, and sometimes it feels like they shoulda just stayed there! Man, coming back to the real world sucks. Bubba and his whole team have been fired on account of going MIA for a year and a half (yeah, time moves differently in Fairyland - yay), and now they’ve got to…get jobs? Oh, this is going to go well.

‘Funny, touching and wise, I loved it’ Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Wendy is lonely but coping. All nineteen-year-old Wendy wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy milk when it runs out and just to be okay. After her...

Saffy Huntley-Oliver is beautiful, charming, rich, and in her spare time she's a serial killer. For the past fifteen years she's been hunting down and killing bad men: rapists, murderers, domestic abusers. As a hobby, it's not as Instagrammable as baking, but at least it's better for your thighs. The problem is, that it's hard to sustain a healthy, balanced heterosexual relationship when you're expecting to have to kill your boyfriend at any moment. She's lost her faith in mankind. That's why she's decided to look for a good man instead, preferably one who shares her interests.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon, read by Zoe Telford. What to do if Matthew, your secret lover of the past four years, finally decides to leave his wife Sophie and their two daughters and move into your flat, just when you're thinking that you...

A penguin is all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia Sit back and enjoy this darkly comic full-cast adaptation of Andrey Kurkov’s bestselling novel set in mid-90s Ukraine, plus a bonus interview with the author. Viktor Alekseyevich Zolotaryov is an aspiring writer in Ukraine...

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets...

Saul "doc" Karoo, écrivaillon sans talent traînant une bonne dose de névroses est script doctor pour Hollywood. Sa fonction ? Massacrer les films des autres pour les rendre "commerciaux". Quant à l'homme privé, il se délecte amèrement de son inaptitude à toute forme d'intimité comme à toute émotion spontanée. Ultime échec : son impossibilité à noyer dans l'ivresse la conscience de sa vie de raté. Jusqu'à ce qu'une occasion unique se présente à lui : à la demande d'une vieille gloire hollywoodienne, le remake d'une ancienne comédie romantique à souhait qui va l'inciter à reconsidérer son existence.

Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed to follow her....

Acclaimed humorist David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is a perennial favorite. This updated edition includes six additional pieces, including a never-before-published story. David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published...

Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers. Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian. Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru. These three strangers have nothing in common-except for the man who's been lying to all of them. And who they are now holding hostage in a basement. EAT, SLAY, LOVE is a book about making friends, finding joy, and discovering the woman you really are . . . though sometimes, becoming your best self involves committing abduction and murder.