Comedy & Humor

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone....

The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse....

In this collection of humorous essays, Kendra Syrdal takes you along for the ride in the completely weird and sometimes messy life of another girl with a terrible case of resting bitch face....

These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didn’t really start out to be one.....

Paradise is supposed to be a short-term stop. Until Thor shows up. Okay, not the real Thor. But replace the hammer with a dog who won't stop barking, and Adam Thomsen is definitely long-haired Thor's doppelganger. Too bad for me, he's decided I'm the villain in his story. Too bad for him, his...

‘आवार भीड़ के खतरे’ पुस्तक हिन्दी के अन्यतम व्यंग्यकार हरिशंकर परसाई के निधन के बाद उनके असंकलित और कुछेक अप्रकाशित व्यंग्य-निबन्धों का एकमात्र संकलन है।

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, while the rest of the house slept, the author watched a video of a man in a rented sports car explain how he made $10,000 a month using artificial intelligence to create content he did not write, art he did not paint, and videos...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This book is the official record of a complaint, and you are the party being complained about. Your cat has retained counsel, engaged a court reporter, and filed a formal grievance accusing you of a long list of human performance failures, including the...

"Der Blick von Veso Portarsky auf Deutschland, auf die Menschen und Verhaltensweisen, ist wirklich lustig und hat einen ernsthaften Hintergrund. Sein Schreiben erinnert mich an Vladimir Kaminer, an seine sehr populären und erfolgreichen Bücher. Herzlichen Dank, dass ich lesen durfte.” Dr...

This is the story of Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor, who becomes mired in a surrealistic web of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. He develops an obsession with an enigmatic poem which leads him to perceive a silent, invisible...

Bloomsbury presents The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido, read by Amy Noble. Stunning and difficult, Stella Goldman is programmed for maximum nuisance capacity, but when she discovers both her father’s affair and her boyfriend’s infidelity on the same day, she flees into the arms of...

Narrated by award winning actor Bill Nighy. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral...

Brought to you by Penguin. Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story just waiting...

Brought to you by Penguin. John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. But John's...

Brought to you by Penguin. Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets...

Brought to you by Penguin. Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes...

Brought to you by Penguin. A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England’s finest fiction writers 'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths, most of which turned...

Everyone's favorite vampire odd couple is back for another bloody good time in this new supernatural mystery from the authors of Dead & Breakfast. Arthur Miller (no relation to the playwright) and his beloved, Salvatore Conte, are settling into their (para)normal lives in Trident Falls. Finally...

Multicast Narration with Creative Production A sharp-witted enemies-to-lovers romcom about a podcaster who embarks on a matchmaking tour of Ireland and gets trapped with a grump who pushes all of her buttons. Maya Davis is chronically terrible at dating. So much so that she's turned her...

A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival—with a new introduction by James Wood. Richard Tull, a failed and disillusioned novelist, seethes with envy as he watches his longtime friend Gwyn Barry, a talentless...