Leslie Thomas'In July 1945 it was the Colonel who had thought up the answer to the question that everyone in the zone was asking: what a suddenly peaceful army should...

Author: William Sutcliffe Can three mothers save their shiftless sons from themselves—in just one week?Gillian, Helen, and Carol are three suburban mothers who have known each other since their respective...

Gary ShteyngartEight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotionally rich novel about love, friendship, and betrayal, a book that reads like a...

Robert Perisic2003: As Croatia lurches from socialism into globalized capitalism, Toni, a cocky journalist in Zagreb, struggles to balance his fragile career, pushy family, and hotheaded girlfriend. But in a...

David Lodge   Everything changes when Timothy’s glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American...

Author: Joey Comeanu Overqualified's cover letters are like a slap in the face, but the slap is hilarious, and you can't stop laughing, and as soon as it's over you...

Author: Meg Cabot But she can't exactly tell the truth, either—not when she's juggling two boyfriends, secretly hating the high school football team everyone else worships, and trying to have...

Stephen Fry "Appallingly funny." — Daily TelegraphA hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis,...

Nina Stibbe This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place...

David Lodge Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But, when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation...

Ben Elton With old friends like these, who needs enemies?It's a question mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself when, in romantic desperation, he logs on to...

Author: Wendy Holden A comedy of country manors. January 1, 2001 by Headline