'Funny, smart, soulful and sometimes devastating, this book shows life in all its shades. It made me laugh and cry.' Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self

'Hilariously, painfully, Freynefully brilliant' Joseph O'Connor

Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, in his scintillating debut, he is here to tell you about them: like the time...

For fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and P.G. Wodehouse

Where do you go after you die? Detroit.  

Something’s rotten in the afterlife. At least that’s how it seems to Rhinnick Feynman, the one man who perceives that someone in the afterlife is tugging at history’s threads and retroactively unraveling the past. Doing his best to navigate a...

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'Sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality' The Times

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England, 2020.

There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK.

They can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphising Event fifty-five years ago.
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Poor George has just about had it with the publishing world, lunches, infidelities and a lifetime of a right bunch of comedian wannabes whose utter tosh (think sports biogs by ‘celebrities’) he’s practically (OMG, ‘practically’ is as bad as ‘literally’’ and ‘like’… and ‘totally’) had to rewrite. What if he’s bothered to sit down and produce his own...

Let the hot Greek sun melt all your troubles away… A laugh-out-loud read full of warmth, joy and summer feeling!

Alice Clark is delighted when her boyfriend Max proposes. From her dead-end job to her straight-up-dead houseplants, her life hasn’t exactly turned out how she imagined, so she can’t wait to start some wedding planning.

But the intimate...

What if Emma isn’t the person she thought she was?

Her younger son has just been diagnosed with autism. 

She’s accidentally quit her job. 

The marriage she was dedicated to suddenly seems like a sham. 

She’s pretty sure that she is going to have an affair with a hot new dad at the school. 

The only thing that stays the same is everyone else. Emma realises it’s...

The only problem with getting everything you ever wanted is that it forces you to reassess everything you ever wanted in the first place.

Thirty-two-year-old Dan Johnson has it all; a nine-digit net worth, a gorgeous fiancé and a luxury riverside brownstone. The only problem is, he doesn’t want any of it. And the endless distractions of digitized society...

The Sunday Times' Thriller of the Month

'MIND-BLOWINGLY BRILLIANT.' Daily Mail

‘Gripping, terrifying and hilarious – John Niven is our Hunter S. Thompson.’ ADAM KAY, author of This Is Going to Hurt
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You're terminally ill.
Who do you kill?

Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a Trump Presidency and is...

There's a storm raging in Eerie-on-Sea. Has the mighty Gargantis come back from the deep...?

When an ancient bottle is found washed up on the beach after a ferocious electrical storm, all the residents of Eerie-on-Sea seem to want it ... but should they in fact fear it? Legend has it that the bottle contains an extraordinary secret that spells doom for the...

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE/JOHN LEONARD AWARD FOR BEST FIRST BOOK

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'This is the novel of...

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Armed with a super-sized backpack full of optimism, Jess sets off in search of sun, sea and a much-needed new beginning.

Things don’t get off to a good start.

Instead of sunshine, she’s...

‘Funny, interrogating, refreshingly self-aware and irresistibly readable’ DOLLY ALDERTON

’You’ll laugh. You’ll cry’ LENA DUNHAM

A hilarious, smart and incredibly singular debut from Raven Smith, whose exploration of the minutiae of everyday modern life and culture is totally unique and...

A mystery lands – literally – at Tom Winscombe’s feet, and another riotous mathematical adventure begins…

Tom Winscombe and Dorothy Chan haven’t managed to go on a date for some time, so it’s a shame that their outing to a Promenade Concert is cut short when a mysterious cowled figure plummets from the gallery to the floor of the arena close to where they...

Chris and George are best friends, and they want to be rockstars. Unfortunately, a childhood spent playing in the school orchestra and listening to Jimmy Nail has left them a little fluffy around the edges, and at the age of 23, their acoustic duo Satellite doesn’t resemble Bon Jovi nearly as much as they’d planned. So how do two ordinary boys from the Home...

Leicester, 2015. In his mid-fifties, unemployed and divorced, wannabe rock guitarist Stan Booker is sick of drifting through life. Saying goodbye to the old, he takes charge of his life, joining forces with his lifelong friend Phil to start a business and seeks out new challenges to fulfil his rock dreams. 

A relationship is soon on the cards as he meets...

Food journalist and chocoholic, Melanie Peters, lands a plum assignment for the top-rated Sexology website: Uncover what makes Sommer Chocolates so lust-worthy. Determined to get her hands on the coveted bonbons despite a year-long waitlist, she camps out on the doorstep of the world-famous chocolatier whose creations are reportedly “better than sex.”...

Mackenzie “Kiki” Forbes finds herself in a pickle.

Either become her snarky sister’s nanny, or move halfway across the country to work as assistant-to-the-stylist of a country music star. Neither job sounds ideal, although bedazzling cowboy boots may be a hell of a lot more interesting than ironing her brother-in-law’s underwear. But life on the road as...

How can a 400 year-old diary that was brought to America by John White, the Governor of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony of 1587, contain Beatles’ song lyrics?

And what does Elwood, a college freshman who believes he’s an extraterrestrial, have to do with it?

And how does Erica, the beautiful daughter of the U.S. Air Force’s Chief Investigator of UFO’s...

In his debut chapbook, bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer explores alienation in its myriad forms, from cultural (“Don’t try to explain Fortnite to me/I don’t care”) to romantic (“We’ll always have that poem about Paris”).

Playful, hilarious, and affectingly human, Shaffer’s poetry will bring a smile to the face of anyone who has ever felt like an alien...

Calm, mature, forgiving, honest, stylish and sober. Brisbane’s Terry Flynn possesses none of these qualities.

Bumbling his way through life without any real direction, knockabout Terry is the first to admit he’s never achieved anything of great significance in his 44 years. 

Seeking retribution from anyone he believes has wronged him is common practice...

Genevieve Howe is a 16 year-old witch incarcerated in a magical juvenile detention center. She’s not a bad kid, she’s just a really lousy witch. Sometimes her random thoughts unintentionally turn into actual spells, causing all kinds of trouble.

Now the administration needs Genevieve’s help to find a student/inmate who escaped. Why her? Because there’s...

After reluctantly being ‘rationalised’ from his Foreign Office job, Kevin Crump takes up a teaching position at Cambrian University, the most improved university in South Wales. 

There he finds a culture in which ‘Political Correctness 2.0’ is out of control, with ‘no-platforming’, intolerance of free speech, insidious anti-Semitism, gender politics in...

Boys in the Band meets La Cage in an Indiana gay bar. A joyous dance of song, drag queens, laughs, lies, friends and a touch of tawdry, grabs you, shakes...stirs, then sets you down with a smile and a kiss. Set in 2007, A.S.S. is a kaleidoscope of weird jobs, loves, hopes, dreams, rage, loss, music and more. It's a book for anyone who has ever felt...

A cross between “ The Devil Wear Prada”, “ The Nanny Diaries”. and “ The Asian Crazy Rich.” Stormy Sophie shows the other side of working as “Chef” in private estate, while still remaining light, fun and a pleasure to read. The book also shows how working as a “couple” can be a life-expanding experience.

The Bonjour Never Land series is a five-book romp...

You might think you know human history, but you’ve never viewed it From His Perspective.....you like a good laugh, right?

In the beginning, there was darkness and The Boss liked the darkness. He'd spent years creating the darkness. He was proud of the darkness. Unfortunately, his assistant Norbert liked to snack while working and had a very sensitive nose...

A retired gunslinger in the old West must kill his vaunted nemesis long thought to have been dead, at the behest of a woman the likes of which the living world has never laid eyes upon.

William Tuck is a vaunted gunslinger in the late 1890s who is rumored to have been deceased, along with his former cohort, Eddie Damon. But when Lilith shows up in all of her...

PRANKS. OIL. PROTEST. JOKES BETWEEN NEWLYWEDS.

AND ONE HILARIOUS SIEGE OF A MAJOR CORPORATION.

Remmy grows up with Beth in Bellhammer, Illinois as oil and coal companies rob the land of everything that made it paradise. Under his Grandad, he learns how to properly prank his neighbors, friends, and foes. Beth tries to fix Remmy by taking him to church. Under...

'Had me on the edge of my seat holding my breath as well as smiling and chuckling out loud.'

Asthmatic furniture restorer and covert witch Amanda Cadabra is a survivor. After all, her family’s bus went over a Cornish cliff. Now the presentable but irritating Inspector Trelawney is dogging her footsteps as he investigates the unexplained deaths. But that’s...

Filled with over 190 lethal limericks and punny poems along with some quirky cartoons, all with a mystery twist. Includes a special bonus feature: the short story "The Adventure of the Baffled Blacksmith," where Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes take on the Lizzie Borden case.

Samples of the sinister stanzas:

COLD CUSTOMERS

Embalmer Montmorency Rome

Is a cheerful, if...

Breaking up is hard to do… Or the best thing that could happen to you!

It’s Elissa’s birthday, but her boyfriend hasn’t really noticed – and she’s accidentally scheduled herself a cervical smear instead of celebration drinks. Great.

Then there’s her borderline-psychotic boss, the fact she’s not making but losing money at work, and her sinking feeling she’s...