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A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin...

From the Booker Prize longlisted author of The Wall, comes his first novel in eight years. What if the year's most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the...

A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer.

A collection of social comedies, wry observations of Victorian society and ‘spook stories’ from the great humorist E. F. Benson E. F. Benson is probably best known for his wickedly satirical ‘Mapp and Lucia’ series. A prolific writer, his works included novels, biographies and...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of War by Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens, Cillian Murphy, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Stephen Mangan. In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the...

Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or...

Endlich: Es geht weiter! Nach dem Manifest folgt die Offenbarung! Hier kommt die fulminante Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung: der "Känguru-Chroniken" dritter Teil. Das Beuteltier und der Kleinkünstler auf der Jagd nach dem mysteriösen Pinguin. Haltet euch bereit.

PTBS? Davon hat Yusuf noch nie etwas gehört. Warum fällt er dann neuerdings ständig um und warum wird er mit dem Kopf im Schoß einer fremden Frau von Marie erwischt? Warum braucht Nene einen Bodyguard und warum will sie nicht für eine neue Moschee spenden? Fragen über Fragen, im Buch...

Danny Dunkel is the golden aristocrat who has been kicking ass for eighty years straight without breaking a sweat. Now entering his second term as US President, Danny's thoughts turn to legacy. Dynasty. But will the Dunkel Dynasty Demand lead to a triumphant Dunkel-day? Only if Danny follows a...

Eine Alten-WG, in der man nett zusammensitzt, Socken strickt, über seine Krankheiten redet und nie mehr einsam und allein ist ... nun so sieht es bei den 5 alten Schachteln nicht wirklich aus. Im Gegenteil: Ein hässlicher Brief, ein geheimnisvoller Kellerfund und ein Schlaganfall halten alle...

The Terrorist Inclinations is fiction and a collection of terrorism related poems. The book condemns all forms of injustice and man's inhumanity to man. It exposes the deception of the ruling class and the futility of violence before negotiations. It also dwells on appropriate conflict...

ICE QUEENS: THE UNSPOKEN HIERARCHY OF YOUTH HOCKEY MOMSWelcome to youth hockey, where the kids play the game and the parents compete for the crown.Ice Queens: The Unspoken Hierarchy of Youth Hockey Moms is a funny, brutally honest look at the personalities, politics, and power struggles behind...

حلم العم بقلم دوستويفسكي … كتبَ دوستويفسكي رواية “حلم العم” في منفاه بسيبيريا ما بين عامَي 1856 و1858 بعد أن خرج من معتقل أومسك الذي عاش بين جدرانه على امتداد أربع سنوات تجربة اعتقال مريرة ومضنية.

Brought to you by Penguin. A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society, the Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Demaria, Jr. Gulliver's Travels describes...

If we were as tiny as ants to another being, what would they make of our philosophies? The great satirist Voltaire imagines alien visitors who have opinions. Bedtime stories are narrated by the world's most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don't stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.

Brought to you by Penguin. I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call life. My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator, my daughter was in...

Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau's hapless gaucherie.

Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp who craves wealth and a position in society. Calculating and determined to succeed, she charms, deceives and manipulates everyone she meets. A novel of early 19th-century English society, it takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory.

Brought to you by Penguin 'If I've learned one thing,' the late, great Father Fehily used to say, 'it's that life, families and rugby balls don't always behave the way you want them to!' Looking at my life, I'd have to say, the dude wasn't wrong. My old man had been caught rigging a General...

Poet Ian McMillan is our host in this gleeful game of literary tomfoolery, outrageous parody and biting wit. Joining him for some lighthearted competitive wordplay are a quartet of writers and comedians, all ready and eager to run riot through the halls of great literature.