Carl Hiaasen Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he just had to dispatch a pistol-packing intruder with the help of a stuffed marlin head. But...

Colin Bateman Bateman's back with a fast-paced, unforgettable story of murder, intrigue and reincarnation on the streets of Belfast.Walter has a rubbish job but so has Margaret, a security guard...

James Hamilton-Paterson The hero of this black farce of a book is Gerald Samper, a ghostwriter to unbearable sports celebrities and rock stars, whose dream is to write the libretto...

Maria Semple Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect...

Jasper Fforde It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty Stuyvesant Van...

Bailey White Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm....

Garrison Keillor This book is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, in Minnesota - a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and...

Roald Dahl Containing all the stories from Roald Dahl's world-famous books – Over to You, Someone Like you, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch – plus eight further tales of the...

Christopher Buckley Christopher Buckley’s “hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale” about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Dürer who conspire to fabricate Christ’s burial shroud reads...

Victoria Mather Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape are at it again, observing the social scene with delicious and hilarious accuracy. January 1, 2003 by John Murray Pubs Ltd

Charles McCarry Lucky Bastard is the suspenseful and hilarious story of a gifted politician with dangerous friends and a zipper problem. The author is Charles McCarry, a writer widely acclaimed...

Fiona Neill For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It's been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than a metre high, months since...