Joseph Heller   Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it...

Hugh Laurie   When Thomas Lang, a hired gunman with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a...

Gary ShteyngartOpen Absurdistan and meet outsize Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, lover of large portions of food and drink, lover and inept performer of rap music,...

Anne TylerYou can’t get around Kate Battista as easily as all that’Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father...

Graham Greene

You have to wonder what kind of pets cartoonist Darby Conley had as a child. If they were anything like Bucky Katt and Satchel Pooch. . . well, life in...

Yael Breuer and Eyal Shavit Hilarious Hebrew is a book that will help you memorise Hebrew words in a FUN and FAST way, with no tedious repetition. Hilarious Hebrew is...

The hilarious, bittersweet novel from the playwright behind EDUCATING RITA, SHIRLEY VALENTINE and award-winning musical BLOOD BROTHERS.Dear Morrissey,I'm feeling dead depressed and down. Like a streetlamp without a bulb or...

Mark Haddon   A painful funny humane novel: beautifully written, addictively readable and so confident' The Times Discover this brilliantly comic and moving bestselling novel by the award-winning author of...

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of...

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...

The beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty crime, from 'the hottest thriller writer in the US' [Time]."But the whole deal, staying and going along with her...