Satire

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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.

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Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before 'It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Reaper Man is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford (Fleabag; Vanity Fair; Quiz). BAFTA and Golden...

New York Times Bestseller “Just because everything appears to be a mess doesn’t mean you have to be one. Mark Manson’s book is a call to arms for a better life and better world and could not be more needed right now.” — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Equal Rites is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before 'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Lords and Ladies is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before 'Holy Wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Small Gods is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor and director Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings; Planet of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Carpe Jugulum is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Mort is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford (Fleabag; Vanity Fair; Quiz). BAFTA and Golden Globe...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Pyramids is narrated by Alfred Enoch, known for playing Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter film series, and Wes Gibbins in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. 'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Raising Steam is narrated by Richard Coyle, who starred as Moist von Lipwig in the television adaptation of Going...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. 'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people. They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Witches Abroad is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Sourcery is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Eric is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill...

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. 'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. 'A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on' William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Interesting Times is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions....

From visionary creator Kenya Barris (beloved TV sitcom Black-ish and the podcast Unusual Suspects). Starring comedy legends Jenifer Lewis, Cedric the Entertainer, and Niecy Nash-Betts, Big Age follows recently retired couple Dot and Butch Watts' reluctant relocation to their new Floridian home, Sunset Gardens, a senior community that is anything but relaxing.

The debut standalone novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7, THREE DAYS IN APRIL is a near-future speculative thriller that marks the entry of a bright new voice into the genre. Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars...

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...

An unforgettable debut, For Human Use is a twisted tale of modern love that bends every genre, sears itself into your brain, and presents a horrific romantic comedy unlike anything you’ve ever read before. ★ "An utterly ingenious horror-romcom, darkly zeitgeisty, and unnervingly...

Antonin Suburre est bijoutier à Brioude. Au cours d'un braquage dans sa boutique, il abat l'un des voleurs, un jeune homme du nom de Chamseddine. Condamné pour homicide, Suburre découvre, en prison, l'œuvre du sociologue Pierre Bourdieu et l'opposition entre dominants et dominés qui fonde sa pensée.

A metaphysical crisis occurs when the note C sharp mysteriously vanishes after being played perfectly by the pianist Jonathan Blenheim. The absence causes tonal collapse worldwide, leading to chaos in orchestras and triggering a bureaucratic panic at the Bureau of Eclectic Notation (BEN). The Bureau attempts to force the note D Flat into substitution, to be met with fierce opposition by D Flat.

“Deviously intelligent...Irresistible.” —The New York Times Book Review “Murder Bimbo is Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era, and Rebecca Novack is one of our funniest and most acerbic new writers.” —Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X The exhilaratingly twisty story of a...

A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning. “An instant classic.” —The Washington Post “Excellent ” —The New York Times “Urgent and lyrical.”...

When marketing executive Jessie Malone reluctantly returns to her childhood summer camp for an adult nostalgia weekend, she expects bug spray, awkward reunions, and maybe a mild existential crisis. She does not expect the camp’s charismatic counselor to vanish overnight. As Camp Maple Echo slips from quirky retreat into quiet panic, Jessie teams up with her relentlessly optimistic childhood friend Cal Becker to figure out what really happened.

Cakes and Ale is the novel that William Somerset Maugham said he wished to be remembered for. Published in 1930 and written in the first person singular, Maugham's narrator (and alter-ego) Ashenden exposes the disapproving, moral judgement made by conservative society on the character of Rosie Driffield and opines that it is unjustified.

Aaron Rogers is a former two time IFL MVP who’s in a bit of a rut. He has been bounced around the league after legal issues, league wide suspension and his play becoming despicable at best. Ending up living a life of a loser. An assistant coach from the Bismarck Thunderbirds, Dom Capers, ends up seeing Aaron’s arm throwing lobs from his house. He gets pressed to find the gift he’s been given. The Thunderbirds are lacking a quarterback because of the league wide lockout, shortening the season and restricting the star players that could be picked up.

The Supreme Court of gods has a problem: mortals are starting to notice that suffering isn't random—it's optimized. Gabriel, a young god overseeing seven American ERs, generates impressive save rates by letting patients code so he can stage dramatic rescues. The Supreme Court loves him. His mortal nurses, developing PTSD at three times the normal rate, do not.

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

A Garden for Ignatius is a comic literary novel set in Buffalo, New York, written in affectionate homage to the grand absurdities of American satire. Centered on a brilliant, belligerent, and deeply unadaptable protagonist, the novel explores what happens when moral certainty, baroque intellect, and modern life collide.

The Fryer Ascends is a theological and culinary epic detailing a conflict between the forces of flavor and imperfection (represented by the prophets Frank and Glen the Fryer) and the forces of order and blandness (led by the metaphysical entity Softly, the Adverb, and the Bureau of Blandness). The narrative charts Frank’s journey as he confronts Softly’s attempts to sterilize existence by controlling grammar and grease, which leads to “The Great Drying” where all flavor disappears.

A-list actor Peter Compton and producing partner Marci Levy exist in the rarefied air of Hollywood’s elite. Their status as a married power couple is unmatched, their presence in any room transformative and god-like. But as their private jet lands in Atlanta to begin production on a tentpole superhero movie, even their privileged position will come under threat by the massive pressures of such an undertaking.

Emily and her friends are off for a fun day at the Museum of Naturally Cherrypicked History! What starts out as a demoralizing and utterly boring exercise in forced self-loathing shortly transforms into a battle for survival as an ancient monkey sorcerer and his wicked former Pharoah enabler transforms the museum and surrounding city into a blazing inferno of undead dinosaur destruction! Can Emily, her friends and their chaperone parents turn the demonic tide? Is the city even worth saving at this point?

Franklin isn’t just a dachshund—he’s a force of nature. Behind his unassuming charm lies a mind sharper than most and a mission that could alter the course of the world. Zaina always knew Franklin was different, but she never realized just how extraordinary he was. For years, Franklin quietly waited for her to be ready—to step into a world of secrets and danger that only she could help him navigate. Now drawn into his enigmatic orbit, Zaina must rise to the challenge as they face a web of intrigue where alliances are fragile, trust is elusive, and every move carries monumental weight.

Zu guter Letzt nähert sich ein Raumschiff einem scheinbar unbekannten Planeten, doch sowohl die Astronauten als auch die dortigen Wesen ringen mit der Frage, ob ihre Wahrnehmungen mehr von Projektionen ihrer Ängste oder von Hoffnungen geprägt sind.

Savannah Blue is a darkly funny, sharply observed Southern coming-of-age novel about loyalty, tradition, and the brutal rites of passage that shape young men long before they understand what they’ve inherited, brought to life in an immersive audio performance narrated by Rachel Simons. At a 120-year-old all-boys Catholic military academy in the South, Harrison and Delli enter their final year caught between fading old-guard traditions and a new culture determined to erase them.

Die staatsnahe Stiftung 'moderne21' fördert jährlich eine zivilgesellschaftliche Initiative mit einer hohen Summe. Dieses Mal gibt es gleich vier Bewerber, die die Stiftungskuratoren vor eine schwere Wahl stellen: Um die Finanzspritze konkurrieren persönliche Vertreter der Initiativen `Dudelstopp´, `Gewalt-geht-immer´, `Wir-sind-wichtig´ und `Wahlabsage´. Wer streitet vor den Kuratoren am gewieftesten für seine Initiative ?

The Wombat Ultimatum describes a chaotic societal crisis following the kidnapping of the adverb “Softly” by marsupial revolutionaries. The main conflict pits the prophetic tobacconist and wombat leader Runciman, who champions “blunt grammar” and the rejection of all adverbs, against the spiritual cooks, Frank and Glen, who represent the esoteric faith of “Greasehood” and the necessity of nuance.

Gabriel is a young god overseeing seven American emergency rooms, and he's terrible at his job. He stages dramatic rescues for social media clout while his mortal staff develop PTSD at three times the normal rate. The Supreme Court of gods loves him—because suffering generates virtue, and Gabriel generates spectacular suffering. But Chrona, the Court's administrative assistant, (Mariline) has been watching for centuries.

Demons is Dostoevsky’s profound and moving novel of politics, psychology, and social upheaval. Exploring how ideas come to possess those who espouse them, this is a story of unforgettable characters who pass through times of love, enlightenment, betrayal, and tragedy. Their story and the story of their life together show how the choices they make in turn make a fabric of destiny and how the fate of their people rests on the nature of an idea.