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A FICTIONAL RAZOR-SHARP, DARKLY HILARIOUS SATIRE ON MASCULINITY, THIS IS THE STORY OF BEN FORD, A MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS IN CONTROL, UNTIL CONTROL BECAME HIS PRISON. Through a whirlwind of hilarious stories, outrageous 'escapades', and a therapist whose unconventional approach challenges Ben in ways no one else can, the book delivers sharp laughs without ever losing sight of its emotional core.

As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building’s residents to the basement increases, children block out reality with the toys at hand—some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionable improvisations. Maša Kolanović’s Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity.

Gespräch mit einer Mumie ist eine satirische Kurzgeschichte von Edgar Allan Poe, erstveröffentlicht in The American Review im April 1845. Der namenlos bleibende Ich-Erzähler berichtet von einem schweren Kater, der ihn veranlasste, nach einem üppigen Abendessen, bestehend aus fünf Pfund Welsh Rabbit und ebenso vielen Flaschen braunem Stout, frühzeitig das Bett aufzusuchen. Doch wird er wieder aufgeweckt durch eine Botschaft seines Freundes Dr. Ponnonner (= Upon honor).

THE BOTHERING OF CTHULHUAn Eldritch LampoonTHE STARS ARE RIGHT. CTHULHU IS NOT IN THE MOOD.For countless eons, the Great Old One has slumbered beneath the Pacific Ocean, dreaming unspeakable dreams of cosmic destruction, universal madness, and unusually affectionate female demon manatees...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One unforgettable family. One Caribbean adventure. And a teenage girl about to discover her own rhythm! The Hendersons are back aboard the luxurious Royal Aurelia, and their extraordinary world cruise is taking them from the Amazon toward the vibrant...

In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bissected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'The Constant Rabbit is Jasper Fforde's most chilling and realistic book yet' Guardian 'You won't read anything quite like this in 2020 - or beyond that too' CultureFly *** England, 2020. There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK. They can walk...

Isaac, a young Australian photographer, is travelling through Europe. His whole life he has longed for the sophistication and wealth of the Europe of his father’s stories, the Europe at the centre of civilisation and culture. But behind the facade of a unified and globalised contemporary society, he finds a history blasted wasteland, a place forever condemned by the ghosts of its unspeakable past. Dead Europe is an unsettling ghost story about blood lust, blood libel, and blood revenge.

Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by...

WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work. Ghost Cities - inspired by the vacant...

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in JapanThe English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task...

Oblomov is one of the most distinctive characters in Russian literature - within a short time following its publication in 1859, the novel spawned its own saying: ‘Oblomovism’! From the pen of Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) emerged a portrait of a young man, Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov, who represented...

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading - and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission. As...

The cult classic that can still change your life… Let the dice decide! When a bored psychologist hands over all of his decisions to chance, making choices on the roll of a die, he transforms his life – and the world. Because when you follow the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining...

Fairy tales are as old as language itself. Long, long ago, storytellers all around the world told tales of wonder both to enchant and entertain us, and also to teach us that – if we are good and kind and courageous enough – we can change the world for the better. For this is what fairy tales do. They give us hope. As we travel through the dark and dangerous world of the fairy tale, as we fight dragons and outwit ogres and save our sisters and brothers, we learn that we are capable of anything.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo introduced us to Scandi noir. Now, welcome to Alexander McCall Smith's world of Scandi blanc... Ulf Varg works in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. Like all Scandinavian detectives he has his issues. In his case these include his unresolved feelings for his colleague, Anna; his impatience over the seeming incompetence of his irritating colleague Blomquist; and his concerns for the health of his hearing-impaired dog, Marten, the only dog in Sweden (and possibly all Scandinavia) who is able to lip-read (in Swedish).

Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, that wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and that ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration.

Silverville’s St. Patrick’s Day goes sideways when Nana O’Shea’s Pot of Gold display disappears, along with antique gold nugget boxes that may—or may not—hide a treasure map. Then her main competitor’s famous Irish cream pie is sabotaged, and security footage points straight to Nana.

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.

Bloomsbury presents Will There Ever Be Another You, written and read by Patricia Lockwood THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION The world might be...