Literature & Fiction

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....

Madigan Wicked’s heart is not up for grabs. She’s been there, done that, and she’s not going back for seconds....

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...

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....

Everyone is looking for something. Most of them are looking in the wrong place.ZAC is a yoga instructor, a self-appointed financial visionary, and—according to ZAC—a man on the verge of something significant.His wife Suzanne has heard this before.ZAC possesses a rare talent for drawing...

Kirkus Reviews says: GET IT.The Trump era, retold as scripture.The Book of Don is a deadpan, mock-biblical chronicle of Donald Trump, television, power, politics, and America’s talent for turning spectacle into belief.From Queens to Manhattan, from The Apprentice to the White House, from the...

A disastrous blind date ends in death. But that's not the worst part of the evening.When Nate and Dahlia die in a catastrophic accident at an upscale restaurant, they arrive in Hell to find themselves inexplicably employed by Hell's Hauntings Compliance Department.Now they're forced to work...

'Just Saying' is a common phrase, with uncommon implications...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if a journey across Britain could expose every vanity, folly, tenderness, and contradiction of human nature? In *The Expedition of Humphry Clinker*, Tobias Smollett offers one of the great comic travel novels of the eighteenth century. Published in...

Kelvin is a mild-mannered guy with dreams like anyone else. He works at a fast-food restaurant, keeps to himself and crushes on one of his coworkers. Things never change...Until one day, Kelvin discovers he has a super power when he gets annoyed. The power to slap people with gory and deadly...

Four murders. Four mysteries. One sewing shop where life is never quite as cosy as it looks.When Penny Slipper loses her job at an exclusive London hotel, taking charge of her grandma's sewing shop in the beautiful Suffolk market town of Framlingham seems like the perfect fresh start.She has her...

Daniel Mercer just wants to answer his phone.A small-town repairman whose business lives and dies on every ring, Daniel has asked thecaller to stop. He's filed the complaints. He's kept the receipts. And every morning, thesame warm voice promises to take just sixty seconds of his day.So Daniel...

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career...

It's four months after Christmas, and Tippy Chan, Uncle Pike and Devon are reunited in Riverstone for the first anniversary of Tippy's father's death. When an early-morning explosion destroys the town hall and kills three people, the town is thrown into chaos. An arrest is made and Riverstone decides the case is closed except for Tippy and the Nancys, who immediately know something is wrong. With rumours spreading, tempers flaring and the threat of another attack hanging over the town, they must work out who to trust, who to ignore, and how to stop a killer before he strikes again.

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

A hilarious journey with Tom Sharpe's characteristic wit, adventure, and outrageous humour. Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as...

“Together, we’re so much more than the sum of our broken hearts.” Holly thought ending her co-dependent relationship of five-years would be tough. As it turns out, the new rules of singledom are even harder to play by. Suddenly, she’s navigating love-bombers, f*ckboys, and the literal...

Is your Christmas to-do list more like a never-ending roll-call of obligations? Are your fairy lights more tangled than your tights drawer? And are your homemade mince pies more pie in the sky than reality? Join the club. Meet Laurie: a working mother of two who is at the end of her tinsel. All...

Some crimes are best solved by the book … Readers LOVE the Miss Beeton's Murder Agency series: ‘What a sleuth Miss Beeton is. I need more!’ ‘Move over Agatha (and not Miss Beeton's loveable dog), there's a new queen in town’ ‘Strong women, friendship and found family, not to mention...