Life Satire

For fans of comic fantasy, British pub humor, and stories where ordinary people face extraordinary nonsense with stubborn determination. Think The League of Gentlemen meets Bottom, if Richie and Eddie inherited an eldritch horror and tried to fix it with curry. Some reckonings arrive with fire and brimstone. This one arrives with vindaloo. Beneath an ordinary pub in Albrighton lurks the Hungry Table—an ancient entity that has survived wars, landlords, Thatcher, disastrous refurbishments, and pub quizzes so dire even the ghosts stopped attending.

Ioana powert sich aus: im Job und dabei, stets die Erwartungen ihrer rumänischen Familie zu erfüllen. Als ihr Großvater stirbt, gerät sie an ihre Grenzen – und muss sich dabei neu erfinden. Alexandra-Maria Pipos erzählt humorvoll und temporeich von einer jungen Heldin im Spagat zwischen zwei Ländern und verschiedenen Versionen ihrer selbst. Sowohl in ihrem Job bei Cadris Consulting als auch als aufopferungsvolle Tochter: Ioana glaubt an Leistung. Dass die Grenzen zwischen Selbstoptimierung und Wahn fließend ineinander übergehen, ignoriert sie.

“I love Fiona Warnick's writing.” —Sheila Heti From the author of the “hilarious” (Time) and “charming” (The New York Times) novel The Skunks comes the humorous and relatable chronicle of a young woman’s obsessive and romantically unrequited crush, in which the sex scenes are...

A “hilarious…hugely entertaining” (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City) novel that captures the complexities of marriage, art, friendship, and the fictions we create in order to become the people we wish to be. A creative writing professor at a third-tier college in upstate...

The spoiled son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Juan Belvidero cannot wait for the moment to claim the family wealth and title for himself. His father calls to his death-bed to inform him that he is in possession of a magic, death-defying potion. If the son will only rub the liquid on his dead body, the father will come back to life. Don Juan assures his father that he will resurrect him, but will he keep his promise or betray the old man?