Satire

Mark Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us....

For Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by...well, more troubling times....

The City Watch needs men! But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot, Lance-Constable Cuddy, Lance-Constable Detritus, Lance-Constable Angua and Corporal Nobbs....

A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.

For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution....

'Look after the dead,' said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.' Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected....

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness....

When the neighbours in question are the proud empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork, those are going to be some pretty large garden tools indeed....

Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder....

Tricked into a world of banished gods, demons, goblins, sprites and magic, Richter must learn to meet the perils of The Land and begin to forge his own kingdom. Actions have consequences across The Land, with powerful creatures and factions now hell-bent on Richter's destruction....

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

Artie Kipps is destined at the tender age of fourteen for a life of drudgery in the drapery trade … until he unexpectedly inherits a fortune from a grandfather he never knew existed!

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements....

My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.)

When a groundbreaking theatrical experience goes horribly wrong, a deadly night reveals the dark consequences of blurring the lines between performance and reality.

Tyson Dawes is back from the dead! Broke, lost, and more pissed off than ever.

Galapagos takes the listener back one million years to A.D. 1986....

When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands....

Author and comedian Daniel Foxx presents a wonderful collection of stories especially for the little darlings of the fabulously wealthy - that can also be enjoyed by YOU, the downtrodden, pitiful, ordinary adult!

Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended....

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst....

Denk an das schlimmste Date deines Lebens – und du bist noch nicht einmal nahe dran! Ein ebenso humorvoller wie lebenskluger Roman, eine grandiose ...

Set in a garden in Tehran in the early 1940s, where three families live under the tyranny of a paranoid patriarch, My Uncle Napoleon is a rich, comic and brilliantly on-target send-up of Iranian society....

The Freaks of Mayfair by E.F. Benson is a series of satirical sketches introducing us to some bizarre inhabitants of Edwardian High Society of Mayfair, which was, and still is today, the stamping ground of the very wealthy. Each sketch introduces a different type of "freak"....

Dearth Conglomerate is plummeting in market value, and Kraken is no more. But not all threats have been extinguished. Thanks to the rising threat of the Sleem, the whole multiverse is in danger. Desperate for a cosmic bailout, the Church calls for a financial crusade.

It's Christmastime, and the Fairchild family is spending the holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in Maine while the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery. His caterer wife, Faith, is rejoicing in the rare, holiday family-time together—watching ice boaters, snowshoeing, and doing plenty of reading in front of the fire. But Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman in an antique sleigh in front of the Sanpere Historical Society. The victim, Norah, was a teenage drug addict who apparently died by her own hand.

When Vivian's kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep stocked up on chew toys, and play PTA politics with sirens and chthonic nymphs and people who literally can set her hair on fire.

Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic.

When Come Knocking came to Los Angeles, the interactive theater production that took over six floors of an abandoned building was met with raves, lines for tickets, and reviews calling it the “must-see experience of a generation.” But after dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured on a bloody night of chaos during the show’s run, the nation was captured by one inescapable question: How could this happen?

The year is 1984. In the wake of the atomic wars, Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Woke Party, led by Big Brother (“Actually, I am non-binary!” —BB). Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, rewriting historical sporting results so that everything was officially won by disabled minorities.

Rose Gold can’t catch a break. Her latest “golden opportunity” has given way to a madcap adventure through the soft underbelly of Bonneville City. She finds herself cast in the role of renegade mentor and hero to a trio of idealistic young rebels. Together, they perpetrate an act of subversion targeting “future-mover” and celebrity CEO Moses Honeydew, which puts them in the crosshairs of his Substrate Inc.

Four friends embark on a quest for revenge, but inadvertently discover a way to make a lot of money. Their discovery brings them into the world of espionage where they are forced to work for a secret government organization. They’ll soon uncover deadly secrets that could easily tilt the balance of power in the world. Join them as they escape the cold grasp of a sinister organization that will stop at nothing to establish itself as a new global power.

Absolute Anhedonia is a satirical novel about Jeff Winters, a man living in a dystopian society. Believing life to be meaningless, Jeff has lost the ability to feel anything. He is addicted to the internet, working, and generally tries to avoid contact with other people as much as realistically possible. When he makes a big mistake at his job, Jeff is forced to abandon his comfort zone and flees to an island with no real plan.

This work pertains to the Vietnam experience as it relates to young men performing duties in the Rear Echelon. These texts are farcical, ribald and, in some cases disturbing. No claim of objectivity in my reporting... I interpret through satire, political incorrectness, hyperbole, and profanity. Don't look for courageous deeds...in my group, heroic action didn't come without extreme prodding.

A grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set in a world that could only have sprung from the unhinged and brilliant mind of John Waters. Listen as Waters himself acts out each role! On the verge of a suburban mental health...

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

Mike is a foley artist who traveled from England to work with his friend Dwain—the first foley artist in the porn industry. On set, Mike finds himself drawn to Chloe, an actress who looks like Marilyn Monroe… if she’d been involved in an industrial accident. The loss of her leg hasn’t stopped Chloe from becoming a top star in Freak Porn. Inspired by his feelings for her, Mike sets out to bring a touch of artistry to the sleaziest corner of cinema by creating tastefully erotic films featuring abnormally shaped performers.

'It’s a Fallen World!' is a very unusual audiobook. Here you will find four flash fiction audio stories. Each story is only about seven minutes long. They are brought vividly to life with immersive, cinematic sound effects. For the full experience, please use personal listening devices. This collection is perfect for the short Uber commute, a waiting room or wherever and whenever you need a break from the everyday boring reality. This is darkly comedic satire at its best!

Una breve ed esilarante parodia del libro "Cuore" di Edmondo De Amicis.

Ominous signs portend great danger, and Regina Y-Z, a psychic, fears the worst. Furthermore, the warning signs all point to her former best-friend, Celeste Bonneville. According to the Aeon religion, Y2K will bring about the End of Days. Celeste, a leader of the Central Ohio Conclave of the Church of Aeonism, looks forward to her future life in a digital paradise, called Singularity. The most holy Master Desiderata has chosen Celeste for a special mission. If the apocalypse doesn’t happen on its own, she has instructions for how to light the fuse to get it started.