Satire

Mark Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us....

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities of modern life cause one man’s solitary world to spin suddenly, and comically, out of control.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness....

The City Watch needs men! But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot, Lance-Constable Cuddy, Lance-Constable Detritus, Lance-Constable Angua and Corporal Nobbs....

Large chests are said to encompass all manner of hopes and dreams. Men covet them. Women envy them. But one fact holds true - everyone wants to get their hands on some big ones....

This funny, down-to-earth parody of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up hands listeners the most useful tools for keeping crap clean and organized without all the pressure....

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey....

The complete 21st series of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 impressions show - plus three Christmas specials....

Hell is getting progressively colder, and things are a lot more serious than devils and demons needing to put on some sweaters....

Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit for Lussi Meyer, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub....

It's not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar....

Warning: This isn't the real thing...it's funnier!...

My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.)

Small Bones in a Fist is composed of stories drawn from Blindboy's first two published books: The Gospel According to Blindboy and Boulevard Wren and Other Stories....

When the neighbours in question are the proud empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork, those are going to be some pretty large garden tools indeed....

As well as writing about his first love, cars, James has a go at political correctness, the rules and regulations of daily life, the internal combustion engine, and traffic wardens....

For Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by...well, more troubling times....

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions....

Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment....

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst....

It’s been a year since the events in Niagara Falls. Things have generally gotten better in the wasteland and civilization is starting to take hold along the rivers....

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements....

They’ve taken everything from him. Now Jerry and Chewy are headed to Niagara Falls to take out the wasteland’s greatest villain once and for all. But The Librarian isn’t the only one looking for revenge....

Tricked into a world of banished gods, demons, goblins, sprites and magic, Richter must learn to meet the perils of The Land and begin to forge his own kingdom. Actions have consequences across The Land, with powerful creatures and factions now hell-bent on Richter's destruction....

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

When two childhood best friends blow up their respective romantic relationships, they make a time-sensitive pact: serial-cheater Chuck cannot sleep with anyone as she attends a three-month-long recovery group for cheaters, while sex-deprived Sofia vows to hook up with as many people as possible before recommitting to monogamy and tying the knot with her long-time fiancé. To keep things interesting, Chuck and Sofia decide to revive a past tradition from their summer camp days—also known as the dawning of sluthood.

ज़िंदगी, ज़िंदगी भर नहीं है दोस्त! ज़िंदगी कभी वेटिंग टिकट है, कभी तय रिजर्वेशन के बावजूद बग़ल वाले पसेंजर से सीट की अदला-बदली है। कभी सीट के नीचे से झोले की चोरी है तो कभी शौचालय की जंज़ीर से बंधी मग है।.

As escritoras June Hayward e Athena Liu se formaram em Yale e publicaram seus romances de estreia na mesma época. Tudo indicava que chegariam juntas ao estrelato, mas, pouco depois da graduação, Athena começou a colher louros literários, enquanto June recebeu apenas migalhas de reconhecimento. Quando Athena morre em um estranho incidente, June decide que chegou seu momento de brilhar. Por impulso, ela rouba o manuscrito do novo livro da amiga, uma obra experimental sobre a relevância dos trabalhadores chineses durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial.

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.

En el último carnaval de la Segunda República, Fidel Ruiz, el chirigotero más admirado de la tacita de plata, se alza con el primer premio en el concurso de agrupaciones. Nadie sospecha que detrás de su exquisito talento se encuentra María, su asistenta. Para continuar alcanzando la gloria carnavalera, el arrogante y maquiavélico señorito no dudará en manipularla y sacar tajada del amor incondicional que ella le profesa.

Graham Carpenter has big dreams of being a serious journalist, but he doesn’t quite have the skills to match. Starting a new job as local cub reporter for the Butterthwaite newspaper is Graham’s big chance. With pad and pencil in hand, he’s willing and ready - what could possibly go wrong? Follow Graham’s (mis)adventures as he tries to land the ultimate scoop. In the first week of the job he gets a lucky break and an unexpected story lead when there’s whispers of royalty coming to town, but can he get the front page?

Debauched pop star Howie Howden has led a charmed life – there has been nothing a fat cheque, a non-disclosure agreement or a course of penicillin hasn’t made go away. But a calamitous night on the town, with his troubled yet dutiful manager Eddy Katz, has consequences for both men.

Welcome to Rule 23: It’s the real-life tool that an elite coterie of trial lawyers has repurposed into a personal piggy bank for its members. With little cost and less risk, Rule 23 enables its acolytes to leverage a single client’s claim into hundreds, thousands, or even millions of similar claims and to reap the resulting profits. Exploiting the common folk hasn’t yielded such royal returns since they were serfs!

Was wäre, wenn jeden Abend Weihnachten wäre? Für Tante Milla ist Weihnachten, als Inbegriff eines besinnlichen Festes im Kreise der Familie, zu ihrem Lebensinhalt geworden. Ihre Lust am Fest wächst ungebremst, bis auch im August die Englein noch singen und die Familie allabendlich zur Feier des Heiligen Abends vorbeikommt. In Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit (1952) nimmt Heinrich Böll die deutsche Nachkriegsmentalität und scheinbar unumstößliche Weihnachtsroutinen aufs Korn.

Aly and Adam Bloomington have been best friends since birth. They are twins after all. When Adam travels to California for work and to visit an old friend, he leaves his beloved–and ill-behaved–dachshund, Pretzel, behind with Aly. When Adam FaceTimes Aly, his childhood best friend Levi hovering over his shoulder, Aly can’t believe this tall, broad-shouldered, chiseled stranger is the same scrawny, floppy-haired boy they grew up with. Could this be the same boy she secretly used to crush on? Aly finds herself wanting to get to know the mysterious man he’s grown into.

Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, find themselves on an island wellness retreat impersonating the Dhaliwals, who have probably been killed in a helicopter crash. After being welcomed by Jerome the robot, the intrepid imposters eagerly partake of the all-you-stomach buffet, the motivational speechifyings of self-help guru Brad Beard, and Professor Sayer's uncomfortably erotic couples counselling. But things quickly take an ominous turn when an excursion to a nearby deserted village reveals a guillotine and a haunted chapel.

„Louisiana!“, schrie Constance Mercier, als sie aus dem Traum erwachte. Eine verschlafen wirkende Asiatin, die neben ihr auf dem breiten Bett lag, schaute sie verwundert an. Es war Nicky, Constances Bettgespielin für diese Nacht. „Wow, hast du mich erschreckt! Was träumst du für einen Mist?“ Nicky deutete durch das Dachfenster der Loft-Wohnung. Im Hintergrund konnte man Hochhäuser bei Nacht erkennen.

Samuel und Stephanie standen unweit des bestialischen Mordes und beobachteten das grauenvolle Treiben des menschlichen Monsters. Stephanies türkisfarbene Augen blickten ernst und sie sagte: »Mir ist nicht wohl bei dem Gedanken, was der Plan mit dieser Bestie vorhat. Und … sind wir hier wirklich in einer Geschichte, an dessen Ende alles gut werden wird?« Samuel zuckte mit den Schultern. »Das weiß nur Gott. Die Menschen haben größtenteils die Augen vor dem Übernatürlichen verschlossen und das alte Wissen aus jenen Tagen vergessen. Es wird Zeit, dass wir ihnen die Augen wieder öffnen.«

Sie möchten jetzt ausrasten. Nichts läuft so, wie Sie es sich vorgestellt haben. Egal was Sie anpacken, es wird heute nix. Vergessen Sie es einfach. Diese Tage im Beruf kennen wir alle. Nur sollten wir dann gleich am großen Ganzen zweifeln und alles hinwerfen? Müssen es immer ein Jobwechsel, eine Dauerkrankschreibung oder eine Schwangerschaft sein, um dem ganzen vermeintlichen Irrsinn zu entfliehen? Wäre es nicht auch möglich, die ganze Misere aus einer anderen, frischeren Perspektive zu betrachten? Ich denke, dass das möglich ist.