Satire Comedy

We return to… Guy Secretan now disgustingly rich, nationally famous, and building a Swiss chalet-style mansion of alarming ambition. Mac MacCartney is thinking about leaving it again, while Caroline Todd contemplates whether she’ll ever get to be a mother. Martin Dear despite minimal effort, is somehow still not a doctor. Joanna Clore has served her time and is ready for action. Alan Statham is getting used to life working under Boyce, who is doing his level best to hold on to his department, his parking space, and his sanity. Sue White remains a law unto herself.

In the scorching heat of the Turanian summer, Thraxas is doing his best to avoid working. His plans for a spell of uninterrupted beer drinking go wrong when the Civil Guards arrest a man for murder, right in Thraxas's office. Outraged at this insult to his dignity, Thraxas goes into action. Soon he finds himself in the middle of a deadly war between rival bands of warrior monks. The situation becomes more complicated when a consignment of the King's gold goes missing.

In an alternate America, JFK survived—and didn’t just win the Space Race. He never stopped. Now it’s 1972, and JFK’s ever-expanding space empire is ripping holes in space-time itself—erasing people, places, and entire histories from existence. The only ones who might be able to stop him? Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne), a former moon nurse lying low in Hoboken, New Jersey… and Richard Nixon, tangled in a conspiracy so bizarre it stretches from the Moon to a Shakey’s Pizza to a parallel-universe Watergate.

The Roman poet Juvenal was the greatest satirist of Imperial Rome. His 16 satires encompass attacks on the immorality, abuses and hypocrisy of the Romans of his day. The last of the great Roman poets, he wrote between CE 110 and 130, his approach to satire coming close to modern expectations of the genre.

Sie sind neugierig und wollten schon immer einen intimen Blick hinter die Kulissen eines gut vernetzten Personalberaters werfen? Dann begleiten Sie einen Insider auf eine Reise durch die ebenso faszinierende wie befremdliche Welt der Headhunter. In über 85 Episoden enthüllt dieses Buch die absurdesten, kuriosesten und überraschendsten Erlebnisse aus dem täglichen Geschäft der Personalvermittlung. Hören Sie hautnah, wie Top-Manager und Führungspersönlichkeiten agieren oder manchmal auch grandios scheitern.

Spanning six decades, from a 1970s rehearsal dinner at a Malibu mansion to a crystal mine wedding in 1990s Sedona, a bachelorette party at a presidential estate in the 2000s, a penthouse ceremony in 2025, and an intergalactic courtroom in 2089, each of Lady Miss' weddings is less about the groom and more about the scheme. Whether she's blackmailing a senator, pitching a reality TV empire to her mother-in-law, or battling a tech billionaire for advertising rights on the moon, Lady Miss always has a plan, and it never goes the way she expects.

When Lady Miss returns to her great-aunt's church in New Orleans to plan the funeral of the beloved Mother Miss Pearline, she discovers that the humble congregation of her youth has been transformed into a megachurch conglomerate run by holograms, subscriptions, and an AI named Earncybot. At the center of it all is the scheming Illuminate Slanders, a woman with five dead husbands, a suspicious will, and a dangerous plan to upload every church member's consciousness into her AI network.

Elizabeth “Lezi” McGyver is a gifted, chaotic inventor whose cutting-edge pleasure tech keeps short-circuiting her career. When her newest prototype accidentally livestreams its own product testing, the scandal threatens to shut down her lab and destroy her reputation. To salvage what’s left of her company—and her dignity—Lezi dives into a whirlwind of malfunctioning gadgets, jealous competitors, and one persistent ex who won’t stop “offering feedback.

Brought to you by Penguin. All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics. But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie...

When separated baby twins Leo and Trevor are reunited 27 years later, it's a cause of celebration. That is until Leo accuses his brother of sleeping with his woman. Now they are brothers in arms. Only their newly found mother can stop them ripping each other to bits. But HER terrible secret from...

WAMBAM is an advanced chatbot with promises of a better future. Whether it's making art, giving medical advice, or offering bleach-ammonia cocktails, the sky's no limit for the mechanical virtuoso. But mistake after mistake proves it's nothing but Slopper the Slop Bot! With every new advancement, Slopper goes from a minor nuisance to a harbinger of the world's demise. Slopper's very sorry for messing up and will do better next time-but are good intentions ever enough?

What on earth has PG Wodehouse, the creator of the Inimitable Jeeves and the hapless Bertie Wooster, got to do with a serious topic like the decline and fall of the British Empire? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is Quite a Lot. The British Empire depended on splendid show and display, but...

Ein bayerisches Dorf mit Hangover - Xaver Gottwalds Schädel brummt, als er nackt auf einer Kirchenbank erwacht. Was ist gestern beim jährlichen Frühlingserwachen-Fest nur passiert? Verkatert sieht sich der Dorfpolizist um und entdeckt ein Foto, das ihn glücklich in eindeutiger Pose mit einer wunderschönen Unbekannten zeigt. Verdammt, wieso kann er sich an nichts erinnern! Xaver macht sich auf den Weg zur Wache. Im Dorf herrscht blankes Chaos: Reifenspuren in der Kirche, bemalte Schweine auf dem Friedhof und Pinguine in Kühlregalen.

Ever wondered why dogs don’t speak human languages? Simple: they know too much. If dogs ever started talking, they’d tell you exactly what they think and that would shatter every human illusion in one bark. No more polite nodding. No more “Who’s a good boy?” theatre. Just pure, unfiltered clarity. And clarity is dangerous. Enter Pepe: a highly opinionated, aggressively honest Jack Russell who has finally decided to break the silence. He’s here to explain the world as dogs actually see it... and trust me, you’re not ready.

What if London’s heaviest man weighed absolutely nothing? In this brilliantly bizarre, darkly comedic tale by H.G. Wells, an annoyed gentleman named Formalyn is relentlessly badgered by Pyecraft - the most monstrously obese, insufferable clubman in London. Desperate to escape his massive size...

Evan Calder took a government job because he believed he could make a difference. That was four years and fourteen failed project plans ago. Now he spends his mornings decoding contradictory emails from leadership ("Be bold. Also, don't do anything without approval."), his afternoons in meetings about meetings about meetings, and his evenings wondering why he still owns a leather portfolio his parents bought him when they thought he was going to change the world.

In Praise of Greed: A Satire in Rhyme is a modern English translation of Lof de Geldsucht by the seventeenth-century Dutch poet Jeremias de Decker. In rhymed couplet like the original, In Praise of Greed is a sustained, ingenious voice-portrait of Greed personified. It dredges up both classical and Christian authorities, scientific breakthroughs, Dutch seafaring, and forces the reader to think about wealth, ambition, and moral agency from an unfamiliar perspective—"through Greed's glasses." The poem is both timely and timeless.

Please Remain Seated: This Will Only Take a Moment is a dark satirical novel about what happens after power stops shouting and starts waiting. The world is not ending loudly. It is being corrected quietly.

Two people trapped in their different worlds. One by wealth and one by poverty. Twenty years working for The Firm has given Marcus Barlow everything he wants but has taken his soul in return. Finding a way to leave has become an obsession. Claire Halford’s life hits rock bottom when she is caught stealing food from Tesco Express. Left alone by her husband with two small children and an STI, her suicide music is starting to play louder in her head. A chance meeting brings them together.

Be prepared to immerse yourself into eleven stories of youth, travel and trouble from Karl G. Trautman in The Appocalypse and Other Stories. The author of Deacon Blues writes of compelling tales of pain, hope, regret, love and wanderlust. There are also stories of technology gone crazy, as inanimate objects come alive and plan necessary acts of nefariousness. "Crying in the Basement" is the story of an emotional wound passed down from father to son in Depression-era St. Louis.