Humorous

The Brush-Off

by Shane Maloney

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, this is the second Murray Whelan adventure. On a sultry Melbourne night, a dead artist is fished from the ornamental moat outside the art gallery. Whelan begins...

Something Fishy

by Shane Maloney

The fifth Murray Whelan adventure. Even in the political wilderness, hope springs eternal for the Honourable Murray Whelan MP. He has found true love, with the salty-tongued Lyndal Luscombe, and there is a baby...

The Big Ask

by Shane Maloney

The fourth Murray Whelan adventure. With a disastrous election looming, Murray's days as a political minder seem numbered. But when his boss picks a fight with the trucking industry and Murray finds himself...

Sucked In

by Shane Maloney

Murray Whelan's sixth adventure. Now pushing fifty, Murray is spinning his wheels in Parliament: a toothless cog in a stalled machine. The millennium is coming but the prospect of Labor regaining power is utterly...

Stiff

by Shane Maloney

True believer Murray Whelan makes his debut in Shane Maloney's first thriller. The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding...

Flunky

by Steven D. Vivian

"I had a great time reading Flunky ...a good, ribald academic comedy." -Tony Award winner Mark Medoff, author of Children of a Lessor God and The Homage "Money is oil to dignity's water."

So muses John Deyme,...

The Sunset Gang

by Warren Adler

With time running short, the lively and intrepid residents of the Sunset Village retirement community in Florida continue to thirst for life. But the true beating heart in these acclaimed short stories is the...

Two Stories in English and Dutch

by Koos Rozemond

These two stories by Koos Rozemond, with English translations by Aart van den End, manage to be both droll and comedic, subtle and sophisticated. In each story, the narrator creates a central character as a...

Taft 2012: A Novel

by Jason Heller

HE'S BACK.

AND HE'S THE BIGGEST THING IN POLITICS.

He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media...

The Laughing Sutra

by Mark Salzman

Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between...

Further Tales of the City

Tales of the City #3

by Armistead Maupin

The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for...

More Tales of the City

Tales of the City #2

by Armistead Maupin

The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cozy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse,...

Significant Others

Tales of the City #5

by Armistead Maupin

Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick...

Doomed Planet, the: Mission Earth Volume 10

by L. Ron Hubbard

Fasten your seatbelts.

Mission Earth is approaching climax . . .

And it will rock your world!

Who will control Voltar?

What is Earth’s ultimate fate?

And what is the big mystery?

The wait is over. Powerful forces...

Three Cheers for Me

by Donald Jack

The year is 1916 and subversive young Bartholomew Bandy is leaving behind hearth & home, religion & boiled cabbage, to fight in the Great War, where the blank, expressionless face he developed for annoying the...

The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

by David Lodge

"A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own...a cause for celebration." -The New York Times Book Review

David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels,...

Perfect Blend: A Novel

by Sue Margolis

From Sue Margolis, the beloved author of Forget Me Knot and Gucci, Gucci Coo, comes a clever, capricious novel about lust, longing, and sizing up the competition.

After enduring her share of commitment-phobic...

Finger Food

by Helen Lederer

A comedy of ambition, dreams, blackmail and daytime TV from one of the UK's favourite female comedy writers

Idristan

by Nick Weldon

Musicians, artists and writers colonise Wales, led by their muse Myfanwy Muff Maboob. Comic, moving, sexy and philosophical - a novel about jazz, love, squash and our experience of time.

The Christmas Village

by Linda Andrews

There's no doubt about it-Cade Dugan has a magic matchmaking touch. Every time he's made figurines of mates for local residents of Holly for his ceramic Christmas village they've arrived as depicted. His problem...