Dark Humour

Dan has accidentally "Noclipped" into the Backrooms—a bizarro, extra-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out.

Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating.

From Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Good Sister, comes a twist-filled, darkly funny mystery about the two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years...

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN ‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES ‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH They say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them. Meet Grace Bernard. Daughter, sister...

Dorothy Graham is dead, which is inconvenient, not least for her. Luckily, she has planned for this eventuality....

All seven series of Andy Hamilton's fiendishly funny award-winning comedy set in Hell. Welcome to Hell—where nobody can ever quite catch the barman's eye. In this collection, which contains all seven series of Old Harry's Game, get ready for some wicked one-liners and scorching satire. Satan...

Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night-shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all. That is, until his best friend reveals the body of a local politician hidden in the trunk of a car....

Paul can't let an incident from his past go. When he finds out a rival detective agency played a key role in it, he drags MCM Investigations into a blood feud that they can't hope to win....

It’s the year 2000 in Dublin and, following some traumatic events, Detective Bunny McGarry is taking a well-earned break from the force. Bunny’s former partner died in the line of duty under dubious circumstances, but his murky background has suddenly resurfaced....

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film. 'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose...

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin. Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the...

A SPECIAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR Discover the deliciously dark and fantastically funny No. 1 bestseller about a woman living life rather too well and being whisked away from it all, from the No. 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups 'How did it end up like this? Twenty-seven...

Bunny McGarry has finally got a lead in his mission to find the Sisters of the Saint, but the lead, one Father Gabriel de Marcos, isn’t willing to play ball. Desperate times call for desperate measures and Bunny has to put the padre under surveillance....

Bart is 30. He is bald. He is overweight. He wears glasses. He is a fry cook. He hates cats. And kids. Bart occasionally does very bad things. He is looking for his perfect match. He has done his research....

American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal....

Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all....

PRE-ORDER the brand-new gripping dark comedy thriller from the world of the Sweetpea series – Now a major TV series on Sky Atlantic, starring Ella Purnell! 🌷🌷🌷 Murder can be a family business … 🌷🌷🌷 Even wallflowers have to bloom. Sixteen-year-old Ivy is your average...

'A whip-smart whodunnit, this will keep you guessing' Red 'A fast-paced thriller with clever twists' Bella ***KATY BRENT IS BACK! I BET YOU'D LOOK GOOD IN A COFFIN IS OUT NOW*** Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident. I know she...

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The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

Liked the Sweetpea TV series on Sky Atlantic? You'll love the books… ‘This isn’t a book for the squeamish or the faint-hearted … think Bridget Jones meets American Psycho’ Red 🪓 Sweetpea is coming home at last… Newly married, with a loving family surrounding her, everything's...

Dopo una delusione d'amore e una brillante carriera da chirurgo andata in fumo, Fionn Kane si è rifugiato in una piccola città del Nebraska, lontano dal "circo" di Boston. Poi però arriva il circo vero. Rose Evans si esibisce sulla sua motocicletta con il Silveria Circus.

The Floating Opera and The End of the Road are John Barth's first two novels. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on human emotions....

From Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Good Sister, comes a twist-filled, darkly funny mystery about the two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years...

I've always known I was different. My name is Seven Grey, and I hang out with dead people. Yes, Seven like the number, and yes… literal dead people. I'm the only mortician in a small town tucked away in backwoods Maine, and I've known this was my dream job since the day they asked us on our first day of Kindergarten. I know who I am, and I don't apologize for it. Death is just different for me, which is why my second job works even better than my first. They call me "The Cleaning Lady".

A piercing satire about a journalist working the night shift at a tabloid and the explosive consequences of her “harmless” clickbait. Washed-up New York journalist Frankie Miller is getting desperate. Since the twenty-nine-year-old lost her dream job at a glossy magazine three months ago...

He lived fast, he loved recklessly and every mistake was made at full throttle. When a pilot with a taste for danger and strip-club nightlife thinks he’s untouchable, the universe reminds him just how far a man can fall. Smoke in the cockpit. A marriage collapsing at the airport. Betrayal. Burned bridges. Scorched earth. And a past full of wounds he pretended didn’t exist.

On a comedown from one of their infamous parties, the dysfunctional Morland siblings find a guest has been murdered… and hide the body in their wine cellar. This locked-room crime thriller is a deliciously dark descent into privilege and paranoia, perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, and...

Plongez dans l'univers captivant de "Signé Cath", un roman de la collection « Ristretto » des Éditions Vivat. Conçu pour être dévoré en moins d'une heure, ce récit intense et intrigant vous transportera dans une autre réalité. Comme un café serré, il stimule l'esprit et offre un pur concentré de plaisir littéraire. Laissez-vous emporter par une histoire où le suspense et le mystère se mêlent, vous tenant en haleine jusqu'à la dernière minute. Découvrez un monde où chaque détail compte et où chaque révélation est une surprise.

Nora Lange's debut novel, Us Fools, was praised as the "Great American Novel" by Molly Young in the New York Times, and "a razor-sharp critique of American capitalism" by Michael Schaub at NPR. Now, she turns her eye toward the daily exercise of getting by. In "Heart Beats," Carol and David...

Struggling romance writer and recent divorcée Marcy Jo Codburn feels like a failure. She’s green with author envy and longing for a book deal, a launch party with cupcakes, and the admiration of her daughter. But her dream of literary success is fading faster than her beige hair dye. When she witnesses celebrated author Francesca Barber in a compromising position, Marcy sees her chance. Transforming into Summer Branigan, her bolder, blonder pen name, she leverages Francesca’s secret to secure the ultimate coauthor.

It’s salmon season, the summer of 2022, in Sitka, Alaska. Emily Morrison is a seasonal office intern. Jasper Patchett is a seafood processor at the bayside plant, along with his friends Mason and Luis. And Alma Mendoza, Jasper’s cousin, is a social media influencer—beautiful, charming, and manipulative—and she’s tagging along for the ride. Jasper has fallen obsessively under his cousin’s spell, but he doesn’t know that Alma and Emily are lovers.

For better or worse, the Nearly Dearly Departed Club are back ... and this time it's a matter of life and death. Or rather, stay alive long enough to protect the dead. That's the plan, at least. But then what do they say about best laid plans? There’s been a death at HM Prison Stainmouth. The...