Zeigt Titel in Satire

A heart-warming tale of office life, homicide and biscuits, which was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2017… Jonathon Fairfax, the world’s most socially awkward hero, works for a giant corporation where he specialises in muttering ‘um’ and tripping over bins. When he accidentally...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Maskerade is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives. The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right...

“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and...

Harassment Architecture has been described as an almost plotless and violent march against what the author calls the "lowerworld". Written in many small to medium sized chapters, it's the story of a man who aims to usher in collapse. He's sick on his surroundings, bound by them, but still seeking the way out.

Mikä on menestyksen hinta? Avioeroasianajaja Caroline käy pitkillä kävelyillä Dyrehavenin puistossa, eikä itsekään tiedä miksi. Hänen kiinteistönvälittäjänä työskentelvä miehensä Kaare on pääsemässä takaisin jaloilleen konkurssin jälkeen, ja miehellä on jälleen suuria...

A runaway goat, a fearless six-year-old, and a roomful of empire-builders collide in Simla, where a child’s plainspoken wisdom exposes the blind spots of British bureaucracy. When Tods—idol of bazaar porters and servants—bursts into the Viceregal Lodge in pursuit of his pet, he also...

A man moves to the forest to be left alone. The forest turns out to be fully staffed. Twenty-five years ago Boris Kriger drove north out of Toronto on a nice day, kept going until he got tired, and bought a house on a hill with six and a half acres of impassable bush. He had been in Toronto three days. He was looking for silence.

Getting Even/Letting Go is a taut, darkly comic novel about money, memory, and the psychic wreckage of a marriage long after love has ended. On a single spring afternoon in New York City, Gene Mills —a once-successful writer now living on fumes —hosts friends in his apartment while waiting for an art auction that could change everything. The paintings on the block were made by his ex-wife, now a global art star. They depict her affair, her ambition, and the life she detonated when she left him. Gene believes selling them is justice. Or survival. Or both.

Worcestershire, 1987: When cash-strapped Vale Television, the smallest station on the ITV network, goes bust, Victoria Bloom sees her career come to a crashing halt. Forty years later, happily retired, Vicky reminisces with her granddaughter as they watch a show she once worked on, now repeated on a nostalgia TV channel. Later, when a stranger offers her the chance to revisit the past, Vicky returns to the start of the year when it all went wrong.

Gnot Normal woke up dead. At least, that was his first assessment. His second was that being dead involved considerably more mud than expected.

Une mort annoncée. Une vérité reléguée en note de bas de page. Une bureaucratie en pleine panique. Decimus Flaccus n’était qu’un simple scribe. Discret, consciencieux et presque parfaitement oubliable… jusqu’au jour où il surprend par hasard un complot visant à assassiner Jules César. Le voilà désormais obligé de jongler avec des prophéties égarées, des augures corruptibles, une blanchisseuse particulièrement explosive et le secret le moins bien gardé de Rome. Sa mission ? Rédiger un rapport. Son plan ? Passer inaperçu. Son erreur ? Dire la vérité.

As society teeters on the brink of nuclear apocalypse, Markus Moksha, an oversexed alcoholic anthropologist, encounters Dordogne, a telepathic woman from the future who recognizes his import to the fate of humanity.

"In Gedanken zähle ich die Tage bis zum Ende der Pubertät. Es sind noch viele. Sehr, sehr viele." Sebastian Schulz, alleinerziehender Vater der 14-jährigen Mathilda, ist entsetzt, als seine Tochter zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben eine Vier mit nach Hause bringt. Da das Kind sein wichtigstes Projekt ist, lässt er alles stehen und liegen und fahndet nach der Ursache. Doch die ist glücklicherweise schnell gefunden. Sebastian ist überzeugt: Sein Kind ist hochbegabt und deswegen in der Schule einfach nur unterfordert. Allerdings - er ist so ziemlich der Einzige, der an diese Theorie glaubt.

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. 'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people. They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller! 'My favourite book I've read this year' FIVE star reader review 'It’s great fun! A new spin on a classic mystery with plenty of humour' FIVE star reader review 'An absolute cracker of a book' FIVE star reader review 'This book had me squealing so much! I...

The long-awaited sequel to Jasper Fforde's cult bestseller Shades of Grey, set in world where social hierarchy revolves entirely around visual colour. Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie...

One of the New York Times' “Novels We’re Excited About This Spring” David Lynch meets Fight Club in T. C. Boyle’s No Way Home, an obsessive psychological study that illuminates the darkness that lurks inside all of us. Terrence Tully, work-obsessed and a naif in the arenas of sex and...

A workhouse orphan, Oliver experiences the terror and brutality of the criminal underworld. His companions, a thief, a whore, a pickpocket, and a fence, are destined for gruesome ends, but Oliver emerges unscathed from the darkness of the underworld.

Yoga gegen Rechts vereint Kurzgeschichten mit trockenem Humor, bissigen Dialogen und messerscharfen Beobachtungen. Mit satirischem Scharfsinn und viel Selbstironie entlarvt Patrick Salmen die pathologischen Züge achtsamkeitsbesessener Stadtneurotiker, denn niemand weiß so gut wie der Dortmunder Comedian, dass einem das Gegenüber oft nur deshalb so schräg vorkommt, weil man gerade in einen Spiegel schaut.