... road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his ... of his world is deeply moving, very funny and utterly convincing. The novel is being published ...
... ...will dazzle readers for years to come' - HILARY MANTEL, author of The Mirror and the Light Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling ...
... the true subject of Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. ... bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was published simultaneously by ...
... old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog? In a brilliant comic narrative which explores the ... magical masterpiece. 'A truly comic novel - achingly funny in parts - challenging and executed with wit and ...
... a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying. Reading Group Book Questions ... who makes a welcome return in Started Early, Took My Dog. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize for ...
... is a true story, compelling and maniacally funny. Above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy ... San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Augusten has been a dog trainer, candy store clerk, waitor, sail cutter, store detective and ...
... a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit ... Christopher Hitchens in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Funny, poignant, crowded with carnivalesque types and ...
... Australia, Louis de Bernieres heard the legend of Red Dog and decided to do some research on this extraordinary ... people who'd known and loved Red Dog, Louis decided to spread Red Dog's fame a little further. The result is ...
... novel to feature the former private detective Jackson Brodie, who makes a welcome return in Started Early, Took My Dog. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum ...
... in Sydney, and rendered with the evocative and powerful prose Blain is known for, Between a Wolf and a Dog is a novel about dissatisfactions and anxieties in the face of relative privilege. Yet it is also a celebration ...
... child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories; and the snow dog, a faithful friend who brings him back from the depths of despair—Dann embarks on a strange and captivating ...
In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives ...
... 'Smith writes like an old hand, and, sometimes, like a dream' New Yorker 'Outstanding ... A strikingly clever and funny book with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life' Sunday Telegraph ...
... and intensely moving... A heartbreaker' Spectator 'The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created ... a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. It will have you biting back the tears ...
... one of them has to be fertiliser. He loses the coin toss, lies in a grave he has dug and asks the dog to bury him. Rich on so many levels, and not without its flashes of characteristic Yan Lianke humour, this cosmic tale ...
... night, a young intern and would-be writer, newly arrived from Copenhagen, meets the intriguing Ana Ivan. Clever and funny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self ...
... EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self ... , Fake Accounts is a wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity and authenticity in the age ...
... of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen's divine plan was not imagined after all. Discover the funny yet poignant classic by the bestselling author of The World According to Garp. ' So extraordinary, so original ...
... begins one of modern storytelling's most beloved tales. ________________________ 'As brilliant and funny as its screen version' Observer 'One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long ...
In her best-selling story collection, "Birds of America" (" it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" --James McManus, front page of "The New York Times Book ...
... and later on, of his Maori foster-father Joe, drags them all into the gyre of possibilities. Cruel, funny, ardent and beautiful, "The Bone People" is a powerful and visionary New Zealand fable. Author: Keri Hulme. Format ...
... to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral. About the Author Michel Houellebecq lives in County Cork, Ireland ...
... past. * Murakami's new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now * 'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time Out 'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction ...
... her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses' house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again. Author: Tim Winton ...
... his love for Fermina Daze comes, when her husband is killed retrieving a parrot from a mango tree. Funny, poignant and heartfelt - enduring and unrequited love have rarely been more movingly expressed. About The Author ...
... to insanity. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction is a funny and frightening satire on the end of the world and the madness of mankind. Author Biography Kurt Vonnegut ...
Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic. 'Her greatest book ...at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist's charmingly ...
... her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses' house, a small dog is torn screaming from its leash by something unseen. Nothing will ever be the same again. Author: Tim Winton ...
An engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel on climate change Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name ...
... on Plath's own life and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and a razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide. About the Author Sylvia ...
... life beyond his experience and into whose orbit he falls despite himself. What follows is a heart-stopping, funny, exhilarating and haunting. Eyrie asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the ...
... could haunt your life" Ali Smith, Times Literary Supplement , Books of the Year "Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment" Peter Kemp, Sunday Times , Novel ...
... unexpected tragedy strikes, long-buried resentments rise to the surface, hastening a reckoning no one sees coming. Funny and heartbreaking by turn, The Animators is a dazzling story of female friendship, the cost of a ...
... at his kitchen table and considers the events that took him away and then brought him home again. Funny and strange, McCormack's ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This profound new ...
... take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon. He should be at school. And so David is enrolled in ...
... the drugs don't make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption... Searingly funny and deeply humane, Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series ...
... the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate - dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 - My Year of Rest ...
Longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping ...
'Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of stories, both melancholy and funny, about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habits with urban life. Oblivious to the garish attractions of the town, Marcovaldo ...
... this heart-breaking territory-the dying friend who comes to stay-and make it not only bearable, but glorious, and funny? There is no answer except: Helen Garner is a great writer; The Spare Room is a great book.' - Peter ...
... latest juicy installment of the Full Figured Series. "Other Women's Husbands" by Anna J- Nobody wants a bone but a dog. That's been Zaria's motto for as long as she can remember. Gorgeous in the face and thick in the ...
... 't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens ...
... novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton s iconic debutthe novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny, profound, and searingly true-to-life exploration of love. A man and a woman meet over casual ...
... -owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl, and their dog Sparky. Author: Ann Patchett. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Literature
... reign... The novella is followed by In Persuasion Nation , a collection of stories by turns touching, funny and sad, and set in a warped, hilarious yet very recognisable American landscape. Author: George Saunders ...
'A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart' Raymond Carver You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All ...
... much else has been lost. But can they offer her redemption in her last days? Poetic, poignant, and at times bitingly funny, The Last Days of Ava Langdon takes us into the mind of a true maverick. About the Author Born in ...
... that peace with his own life. Part road-movie, part 'Koori-noir', Dancing Home announces an original and darkly funny new voice. About the Author Paul Collis is a Barkindji man, born in Bourke in far western NSW on the ...
A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. DI Leo George has been invited to a friends' reunion weekend at a lodge in the grounds of ...
... Barbara Kingsolver, author of Unsheltered and The Poisonwood Bible Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, lives with her dog and makeshift family in the hidden spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. She thinks she knows ...
... in the form of a final farewell. About the Author Jack Livings is the author of the short story collection The Dog , which was awarded the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Rome Prize for Literature. He lives in ...
... . With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison, Daniel Handler gives us a tender, brutal, funny, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. "There are love stories galore ...
... Prize 'Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years ... Funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical' NEIL GAIMAN The year is 1806. centuries have passed since ...
... correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent. Named one of ...
... human cruelty and need. 'Graham Swift...has a wide range; he can be delicately sensitive or outrageously funny. 'An admirable collection. Each story has its subtle nuances of narrative and language which established a ...
... stunning debut' - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss 'An extraordinarily brave debut that's painfully real—but plain funny as hell, too' - Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl What have you got to lose ...
... a vision of life and love and sex and mortality that is both chillingly brilliant and teeth-rattlingly funny.Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital ...
... -fiction. His novel Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times ...
... of female friendship under the transforming pressure of illness. 'The clear-eyed grace of her prose' in this darkly funny and unsparing novel has been hailed by Peter Carey as 'the work of a great writer.' Garlanded with ...
... of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K "One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new ...
... and unforgettable narrators in recent fiction—a voice at once distanced and maternal, indulgent yet blackly funny. And the result is a piercing yet humane meditation on alienation, consumerism, the city, self-awareness ...
T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in its range, richness, ...
... werewolf who's the key figure in Russia's Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date ...
... the streets of Baltimore as the leader of a close-knit group of friends: Mike, the ladies' man; Tank, the funny guy with a short fuse; Apache, the wild one with artillery expertise; Gee, aka Dread, a cold piece of work ...
... is an American original who writes like a female Charles Bukowksi: crude, rude, and raw; often very funny, sometimes shocking, disarmingly poignant, and incredibly readable. In a story with parallels to the author's own ...
... has a target for his rage--and a focus for his twisted, horrific plan. Dark, haunting, often screamingly funny, The Butcher Boy chronicles the pig boy's ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness. No ...
... , the kind that Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away' Anne Tyler 'Funny, thoughtful ... a perfect example of the Lively art' Mark Lawson, Independent Author: Penelope Lively. Format: Paperback Non ...
... substrata of erotic love. "An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit. . . . It's moving, it's funny, it's frightening . . . fiction at its best."--New York Times Book Review. About the Author Julian Barnes once ...
A delightful new setting-London-a wonderful new cast of characters and one incredibly clever dog. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London's vibrant Pimlico ...
... at the same time,Beatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish, laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America. About the Author PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland ...
... . Cozzano is more than the perfect candidate. He's a special effect. "Complex, entertaining, frequently funny.""--Publishers Weekly" "Qualifies as the sleeper of the year, the rare kind of science-fiction thriller that ...
... novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick i s still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever. Author: Chris Kraus. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Literature
... thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer ...
"Wickedly funny." --The New York Times Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men ...
... greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. This gripping, often deliriously funny yet emotionally devastating book looks at war - that great fall of Man from grace - and the effect ...
... novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer? "Satirical and tender, funny and disturbing...wonderful." -- The New York Times "A portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal ...
... the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days. Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a ...
Funny, tender, edgy. I wanted the love story to go on forever.--Joan Johnston, bestselling author of No Longer a Stranger Written in the wonderfully honest, edgy, and hilarious voice she perfected in God-Shaped Hole , ...
... Plath's own life and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and a razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Author: Sylvia Plath. Format ...
... world where beauty can be found on every street corner - a message on a T-shirt, a friend in a stray dog or a star in the night sky. Common People shines a light on human nature and how the ordinary kindness of strangers ...
... is the author of one previous novel, The Good Teacher . He lives with his wife, four dogs, and a new cat. Author: Jilliane Hoffman. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Literature
... where the first draft of this book was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn. Author: Maria Dahvana Headley. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction ...
... and mature love. It is a hymn to the rhythm of country life - to vicious birds, virginal cows, adored dogs and ill-used sheep. On one small farm in a vast, ancient landscape, a collection of misfits question the nature ...
... of the Folio Prize for Fiction 2014. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection by George Saunders ...
... rain. The stories - of her golden twin brother Aeney, their closeness even as he slips away; of their dogged pursuit of the Swains' Impossible Standard and forever falling just short; of the wild, rain-sodden history of ...
... care about Grace and Champ till it hurts. Readers who enjoyed the raw vibe of Omar Musa's Here Come the Dogs and Jesmyn Ward's devastating memoir Men We Reaped will recognise much of the territory and the themes of this ...
... moved from Hampshire to Spain. She now writes her novels in sunnier climates with the company of her husband, four dogs and six cats. Author: Sam Michaels. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction
... the pool narrows until a surprise ending reveals Doug's dog-and why he went missing. Featuring hilarious illustrations of funny dogs galore, this text is perfect for collaborative story time with beginning and reluctant ...
Meet Hally Tosis, a knee-slappingly funny dog that will take your breath away in this full-colour sturdy board book by Dav Pilkey! Hally the dog has horrible breath. Even the skunks avoid her. So when Mr and Mrs Tosis ...
... for everyone who loves a funny dog story, this anniversary edition is sure to delight a whole new generation of readers. Everyone sees my dog differently. Some people even think she's the ugliest dog in the world. But I ...
Frog & Toad meet Elephant & Piggie meet Bill & Ted in this wonderfully strange and funny book about best friends on a cosmic adventure. Dog & Hat search for some dreamy moon magic! When Ant sets out to visit her cousins ...
... by Ogden Nash The relationship between us humans and our dogs has inspired many of the world's greatest poets. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, the poems in this beautifully illustrated anthology are a true celebration ...
... this day). Everybody in Dav's class thought he was pretty funny, except for one person - his teacher! Dav's teacher didn ... Dav found a cute stray puppy and named her 'Little Dog'. She soon became his best friend. In 1990, ...
... tell you... I was with my mutt mates in the dog park when we saw something MONSTROUS through the trees...I recognized ... Pong series, which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He's also an actor, dancer and ...
The funny, heart-breaking, wonderfully told story of love, family and overwhelming loss which led one woman to find hope and healing in the dog she always wanted. Growing up with the Deans was a fabulous training ground ...
... Australian Shepherds all the way through to Yorkshire Terriers and Zoomies, The Dog Lover's A to Z mixes Clare Faulkner's adorable illustrations with funny, engaging written entries to create a charming guide that's the ...
... is a perfect gift for P.D. Eastman fans and dog lovers of all ages! Originally created by Dr. Seuss himself, Beginner Books are fun, funny, and easy to read. These unjacketed hardcover early readers encourage children ...
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