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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...

The Adventures of Bosco and His Pals, Not-so-Pals, Enemies, and Neutral Official Bodies: A story without any moral whatsoever, with no admirable chara

by Helen Rusinoff

Synopsis: A long time ago, a group of aliens called Frakas paid a visit to Earth, where they discovered humans. For some unfathomable reason, the humans began to worship them and commit acts of violence against...

Madame de Gaulle's Penis: A Fictional Memoir of the Sixties

by Herbie Brennan

Cast as a fictional memoir of the 1960s, 'Madame de Gaulle's Penis' tells the story of John Sinclair, an ambitious young broadcaster with marital problems whose career nosedives following what should have been...

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel

by Alex Gilvarry

Unveiling two of America's most illusory realms—high fashion and Homeland Security—Alex Gilvarry's widely acclaimed first novel is the story of designer Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, New York glamour...

XXXmas

by Jeffrey Howe

Christmas 1983 at the last porno theater in St. Louis: You'd think the atmosphere would be sordid with a miasma of stale popcorn and dank upholstery. You'd be right. Yet, behind the crumbling facade and flickering...

We Promise Not To Tell

by Albert Able

"A human story of love, pain, humour and ambition all spiced with a little scandal and intrigue, 'We Promise Not To Tell' is a dramatisation, plus a little author's licence, of forty highly successful years...

Barney's Version

Giller Prize 1997

by Mordecai Richler

Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career.

Told in the first...

WLT: A Radio Romance

by Garrison Keillor

In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis....

Pretty is as Pretty Does

by Alison Clement

Lucy Fooshee is a fish out of water. Living in a small Midwestern town where behavior is prescribed and expectations limited, this local beauty queen had pinned her hopes on marriage, only to be disappointed....

Commonwealth

by Joey Goebel

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Torture the Artist, a fiercely funny novel about red-state politics, family traditions, and a common man who decides to fight back. Somewhere in the middle of...

Welcome to Higby

by Mark Dunn

Welcome to Higby follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in northern Mississippi over Labor Day weekend. The weaving of narratives brings us Stewie Kipp and Marci Luck, whose love for one another has...

The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure

by Jack Pendarvis

You've met the characters in The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. They're the quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers we all know...and might even be. These characters are absurd, hilarious, and...

The Porridge Incident

by Herschel Cozine

Is Goldilocks really a trespasser who broke furniture and slept in strange beds, or is she the victim of mistaken identity? Our intrepid Detective Nathaniel P. Osgood III (fresh off his success in the short...

Morning Stories

by BJ Narker, Justine Huffman & Matthew James Zakutny

A compilation of short stories taken from a great group of amateur writers. These are short stories can bring tears to your eyes in sadness and in laughter. A great coffee table or toilet room book.

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons & Alexander Mccall Smith

Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders...

Cereal Killer

by Suzanne Berube Rorhus

Elizabeth Hart enjoys her high-powered job and her lakeside home but is tired of Officer Andrew Baird's hands-off policy. A mere ten year age gap is no reason for refusing romance, is it? As Andrew searches...