Author: Kurt Vonnegut Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a...

Charles BukowskiFrom iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed...

Carl HiaasenUnfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against...

Author: Francesca Simon Warning: Too rude for parents and for slimy toad little brothersThese are Horrid Henry's very own jokes: the jokes that grossed out Mom and Dad... that made...

Dr Seuss This follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories features familiar Seuss faces and places — including Horton the Elephant, Marco, Mulberry Street, and a Grinch — as well...

Janet EvanovichLow-rent bounty hunter Stephanie Plum reaches depths of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and hideous cars...

Paul Theroux In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and...

Glenn MurphyPublished July 2nd 2015 by Pan MacMillan (first published July 4th 2008)

Cressida CowellHiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking hero who ever lived - but it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back...

Caitlin Moran   "It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few...

George MikesHow to Be an Alien(Penguin Readers: Level 3)George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour -...

Nick Hornby   In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World...