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كتاب ظريف في الأدب الساخر يضم بين دفتيه مجموعة مقالات تحتّلها عناوين شائقة عايش الكاتب شخصياً أحداث بعض منها، وهي تسلّط الضوء على الواقع من مختلف زواياه في أسلوب فكاهي سلس ومسترسل تدفع القارئ لأن يبتسم كما شاء له الكاتب في العبارة التسويقية التي غطت غلاف الكتاب الأخير.

في هذا الكتاب، يأخذك الكاتب في رحلة عميقة ومرحة بين أوراقه القديمة، حيث تتلاقى الهراءات مع لمحات من أفكار وخواطر تحمل بعض “اللحم”، أي الحقيقة والصدق في التعبير عن الذات. تلك القصاصات، التي قد لا تصلح إلا للحرق، تتحول هنا إلى مادة حية تجد صدى لدى القارئ؛ فهي حكايات، أفكار، ومشاعر صادقة تنبض بالحياة. بين السطور، يشاركنا الكاتب صراعاته، لحظات الإحباط، ومراوغات الإبداع، لتصبح هذه الأوراق جسرًا بين تجربة شخصية وفن سردي يُلامس القلوب. هكذا وُلد هذا الكتاب، من أوراق كان من الممكن أن تُحرق، لكنها اختارت الحياة من خلالك، أيها المستمع

The impressions show that needs no introduction - with bonus End of Year specials Radio 4’s award-winning and hugely popular comedy show is back with yet another helping of political-vituperation, media-mauling and celebrity-savaging. Sit back and treat your ears to a bumper edition of superb...

A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life. It’s Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New...

First there was the insomnia. Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep. Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything. Then he met Tyler Durden. Then came Fight Club. Fight Club is the psychological story of a man's descent into an...

সুখে থাকতে ভূতে কিল মারে বলে বাংলায় একটা প্রবাদ আছে। মানে, সংসারে এমন কিছু বেশ মানুষ আছে তারা সুখে শান্তিতে...

تصنَّف رواية الوجه الأصفر بأنها إحدى روايات الرعب التي تدور حول الشعور بالوحدة في مجال الأدب شديد التنافسية؛

A smart, funny, and essential survival guide that you didn't know you needed. But you do. As any current or former 20-something knows, adult life can get a bit weird because no one tells you what to expect. Many of us spend a decade or more figuring out how the world works, hoping that by age 30 our friends are too old to remember what happened. Unfortunately, Andy Boyle does not have it all figured out. But the funny and useful advice and observations in this engaging audiobook will help any newly minted adult get through the hard parts.

Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human.

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"—deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them—we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials.

Das Leben geht munter weiter im »Hotel Güneş«. Yusuf Karamak muss sich damit abfinden, dass seine 90-jährige Oma tatsächlich nach Las Vegas fliegt … und dann läuft er am Flughafen auch noch einem verwirrten Mann mit einem Messer in die Arme … Vom Krankenhausbett in Antalya bis in die schillernden Casinos von Las Vegas – Yusufs Leben ist chaotisch, spannend und humorvoll. Jeder Tag bringt neue Überraschungen.

Crypt currency is the future. The enchantments are reliable. The aethernet infrastructure is sound. And despite the fact the currency is stored in something called a pocket crypt, relies on phantoms of the dead, and often involves a worrying green glow, experts agree it has nothing to do with necromancy. All of the big crypt magnates say so.

‘Astonishing’ MICHAEL MAGEE ‘A novel to marvel at … ingenious’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH ‘Wicked and beguiling’ AMY TWIGG The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate as her attempts to navigate campus conspiracies set her...

From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that proves there are some dilemmas that no app can solve. Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a...

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighbourhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one per cent, but she can't seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.

Bloomsbury presents The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, read by Aja Naomi King, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Bahni Turpin and Heather Alicia Sims. * THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ‘One of the biggest reads of the summer, and for good reason’ INDEPENDENT ‘Enormously fun . . . A...

A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor I don't know who is.' An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is...

Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and is drawn into a four-billion year old mystery that must be...

“Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too.”--James Patterson The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change...