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Hugh Laurie, Rory Bremner and Morwenna Banks star in this six-part comedy series that sends up both politics and traditional sitcom conventions 1993, and the party of the loony right and centre sweeps to power, changing the face of politics forever and drastically disrupting the very normal...

It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world?

Dürfen wir vorstellen? Grace Bernard – liebende Tochter, beste Freundin und teuflisch gute Serienmörderin. Grace ist eine Serienmörderin und sie mordet aus gutem Grund. Grace rächt sich bei ihrer Familie. Dafür dass sie beiseitegeschoben wurde, weil sie unehelich ist. Dafür dass sie nicht reingepasst hat in die feine, reiche Familie ihres Vaters. Aber noch mehr rächt Grace ihre Mutter, die es nie verkraftet hat, zuerst mit allen Mitteln verführt und dann schäbig vergessen worden zu sein.

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear instead of his head, Samson is left an orphan, with only his father's collection of abacuses for company. Until, that is, his flat is requisitioned by two Red Army soldiers, whose secret plans Samson is somehow able to overhear with uncanny clarity.

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognise the parts as people and give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realises he has created a monster: one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path. 

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. This audiobook edition is read by stage and screen actor Alex...

The lifestyles, careers, romances, and peccadillos of various British intellectuals, scientists, and artists are dealt with - often with hilarity and sometimes with dark comedy and sophisticated banter. All of this is set off by the ingenious idea of self-inflating pants!

From Emmy Award-winning author David Quantick, All My Colors is a darkly comic novel about a man who remembers a book that may not exist, with dire consequences. A bizarre, mind-bending story at the intersection of Richard Bachman, Charlie Kaufman, and Franz Kafka.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of India Knight's darkly comic Comfort and Joy. Read with humour and sensitivity by Lucy Brown, the star of the hit show Primeval. It's December 23rd and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a blue-arsed fly trying to buy presents. She...

All ten episodes of the dark, surreal comedy featuring Matt Berry's twisted regression therapist Unorthodox, unpredictable, and verging on the unprofessional, Dr Berry is a deeply disturbing hypnotherapist. His experimental regressive technique is both strange and terrifying, and involves taking...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe, read by Daniel Weyman. Music, murder ... and Madeleine William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an...

At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction...

Penniless and downtrodden at the loss of his wife and one of his daughters, Samuel Clemens turned to writing. The short stories and essays in Letters from the Earth find Clemens—under the pseudonym of Mark Twain—at perhaps his most quizzical and questioning state ever. Written as diary entries, Twain penned a series of letters from the point of view of a dejected angel on Earth who observes the many curious natures of man. These pieces, gathered by Twain's literary executor, feature sharp takes on the inconsistencies of Christianity and farcical criticisms of American life.

s ist kalt. Bitterkalt. Was im tiefsten Winter natürlich völlig verständlich ist. Genauso natürlich konnte man es von Heff, dem Chef nicht erwarten, dass er mit dem hereinbrechenden Winter zum Jahresende rechnet. Dennoch fangen die Angestellten problemlos an zu kochen – aber vor Wut. Denn Heff denkt nicht im Traum daran, die Heizung anzuschalten. Es kommt zum Streik.

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.

Heff, der Chef der Firma, die brilliert und firmiert, bekommt überaschend Besuch von einem Kunden. Als wäre das allein nicht schon Grund genug zum Wundern, überlegt der Kunde tatsächlich, Heff einen Großauftrag zu vermitteln. Jedoch muss sich Heffs Firma erst einmal beweisen. Das offensichtliche Chaos, die Bademäntel tragenden oder ständig schlafenden Angestellten, der ständig nörgelnde Praktikant und nicht zuletzt Heffs eigene Inkompetenz machen keinen sonderlich vertrauenserweckenden Eindruck.

Geld weg, Firma weg, Perspektive weg und von der Vermieterin vor die Tür gesetzt. So besuchen Heff und seine treudoofen Angestellten den einzigen Mitarbeiter der Firma, der von all dem nichts mitbekommen hat, weil er grundsätzlich nur zu Hause arbeitet: Michael. Alles andere als Begeistert ob dieses spontanen Obdachgesuchs, bringt Michael einfach Sack und Pack auf einen alten, verfallenen Bauernhof, für den die Bezeichnung "Bruchbude" noch zu gut wäre. Aus welchen Gründen auch immer sieht Heff in diesem bau- bzw.

Der Hinweis auf eines der verborgenen Drachengräber führt den Magier Tib und seine Begleiter in die Wüste der Ewigkeit.

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...

Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn’t schedule them for enough hours―most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs