Dark Humor Satire

Each of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job. For the chairman, MP Malcolm Craig, it is backbench boredom, media personality Jo Cross is on the hunt for a 'relevant' novel, and Oxbridge academic Vanessa Shaw is determined to discover good writing. But for Penny Feathers of the Foreign Office, it's all just getting in the way of writing her own thriller.

E se in una tiepida notte di luna piena vi capitasse di incontrare Satana? È questo quello che accade a due esimi letterati moscoviti e purtroppo per loro, l'incontro significherà dolore e morte. Non saranno gli unici ad avere a che fare con il signore del male e il suo seguito di demoni. Lo strano e pericolosissimo gruppetto si fermerà infatti alcuni giorni a Mosca, provocando catastrofi e sconvolgimenti a tutte le persone che avranno la sventura di incontrarli, ma darà vita anche a situazioni esilaranti al limite dell'assurdo, descritte con una straordinaria comicità.

Als Maike und Alex vollkommen unverhofft ein etwas baufälliges Haus in Tübingen erben ahnen sie noch nicht, dass ihnen die Renovierung der »Villa Mimmi« alles abverlangen wird. Erneut stürzen sich die beiden mit Leib und Seele in ein neues Abenteuer und lassen sich weder von motorradfahrenden Biker-Omis noch von paragrafentreuen Bauamtsinspektoren von ihrem Ziel abbringen. Morsche Terrassen, irre Handwerker und tierische Untermieter sorgen auf dem Weg ins eigene Traumhaus ebenso für Überraschungen wie unfreiwillige Volksfestbesuche und Kletterpartien auf regennassen Dächern.

Canciones de rock & roll, una afición antigua por los cómics, una avalancha de juguete, Bruce Springsteen y una instructora de baile son algunos de los objetos y personajes que conforman las viñetas, los relatos, y las estampas a través de los cuales Sergio Zurita se narra a sí mismo, a sus afectos y sus recuerdos. Esta compilación de textos breves, que atraviesa la frontera de la ficción y se interna en la realidad va desde la autobiografía hasta el testimonio, construye un retrato íntimo donde se reúnen los anhelos infantiles, la curiosidad adolescente y la cruda madurez de la vida.

Berry Barry and his companions are back after their battle with the Flesh-Cursed creatures that lurked within the southern border wall mists. Barry, Fogwarth, and Ak-Lok, along with their newest tag-along, Goomba, must now return to the Mothric Kingdom and report what they have found back to the king.

Let's be real: customer service sucks. Being sandwiched between needy customers and incompetent leadership at a greedy corporation sets an impossible expectation. It's Tony's job to "reset the customer experience" with no tools other than his customer-oriented attitude and expression of the company's hip and trendy culture.

Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave’s collection of 11 stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of “star power”, but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical “Hollywood endings” in very unique and literary ways.

A children's tale...meant for adults...with deep political relevance these days....

Anna is a young Hollywood film executive with a gift for picking box office winners. When she is passed over at work and in love, she begins to question herself. And when an escaped psychiatric patient crosses her path, she is intrigued by his insight. Anna finds herself surrounded by brilliantly vibrant and outrageously eccentric characters who, like many of us, are shaped by our pasts.

Gundolf, der Sohn des Gutsherrn Jayden-Fynn, zweifelt an seinem Verstand, als man ihm offenbart, dass sein alter Vater noch einmal heiraten will. Und als wäre dies nicht schon genug, muss es auch noch Klotilde sein, Gundolfs Ex-Freundin. Was für eine Schmach. Nach einem unfassbar tief gehenden Streit sieht Gundolf keine andere Möglichkeit mehr, als dem Gutshof für immer den Rücken zu kehren.

Don is a clerk in the Quick Stop convenience store with a problem: He suddenly can’t remember his past or what he’s doing here. He thinks maybe he’s an angel sent on a mission. With Sancha, his only friend and fellow clerk, Don and Sancha of the Q set out on a quest to do some good and find out why he’s here. Maybe it has something to do with the stolen atomic bomb in Don Q’s basement. Maybe.

In this book, the third volume of the satirical epic poem The Trumpiad, Martin Rowe delves into the tumultuous final year of the 2010s, including the denouement of the Mueller Report, the emergence of the Ukraine conspiracy, and the sundry and daily outrages committed by the President of the United States and his colleague in disruption in the United Kingdom.

Rowe plumbs the depths and details the degradations that, with disturbing consistency, characterized the second year of the administration of the 45th president of the United States, as they had the first. From Melania to Stormy Daniels, Vladimir Putin to Kim Jong-un, Robert Mueller to Omarosa, The Trumpiad invades the consciousnesses of the many characters who inhabited or infected the swamp, and offers a withering satirical take on the state of our politics.

Jaakko ist 37, als sein Arzt ihm eröffnet, dass er bald sterben wird: Jemand hat ihn vergiftet. Das an sich ist schon genug, um einem Mann so richtig den Tag zu verderben. Leider wird Jaakko zu Hause auch noch Zeuge, wie ihn seine Frau mit Petri betrügt, dem jungen knackigen Angestellten der gemeinsamen Firma. Der Firma, die jüngst gefährliche Konkurrenz bekommen hat. Jaakko beschließt herauszufinden, wer ihn um die Ecke bringen will. Und er wird sein Unternehmen für die Zeit nach seinem Tod fit machen.

And Lead Us Not is a comic novel about Wally Zeringue, a high school dropout who becomes president of the United States. Wally has enemies - among them, Dan Bitterman, a former classmate who is now a reporter for the president's hometown weekly newspaper. Two other bitter enemies of Wally Zerignue become secret informants for the reporter.

Every year, on the anniversary of the death of 1980s prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the elderly residents of State Retirement Home SY-379 hold a festival of celebration. Balloons and bunting go up, raucous punk music is played, memories are relived by those who still have all their faculties, and a good time is had by all. With the 30th anniversary of Thatcher’s death coming up in just a few weeks, Colin Baxter decides to make this year’s Thatcher Day something to be remembered. He contacts octogenarian punk band Sick Bastard and books them to play live at the retirement home, promising to pay them in free beer.

Obscurity is a way of life for Gavin Vonn Getch, a painter who works at a frame shop in a small New England town. His life changes when billionaire Gary Eastman enters his shop and becomes the ultimate patron: a lifetime commission for all his work in exchange for a crap-load of money. Some of his artist buddies envy him and others think he's sold out. Curious as to where his paintings are being displayed, he makes a trip to the DLC headquarters, where a shocking discovery forces him to reevaluate his deal with Eastman and his identity as an artist.

Barnabas Jack lived a simple life as an ordinary Japanese salaryman. Life was good in his suburban utopia, until he died, of course. Imagine his surprise when he opened his eyes to a middle-aged male goddess who had given him the gift of reincarnation to new worlds. But there was one catch: Whatever killed him the past life is what he became in the next. With this knowledge, Barnabas Jack embarks on a personal journey to die at the hands of a cute girl or a handsome man. But for now, he'll just have to settle with being a car.

Carla the florist is surrounded by the duplicitous and the craven - and that’s just her flowers. The human beings are infinitely worse, especially the men. There’s Gwynne, her oafish and cold-hearted brother, Gerald, the suave and sophisticated doctor whose hidden agenda is unspeakable, and finally there’s David, the handsome, dashing lawyer whose deceit hurts most of all. If only God weren’t a fictional character then surely they’d get their just deserts...except, it is only through their perfidy that love finds a way into her world.

It is a matter of received wisdom that people are so much more than the sum of their parts. However, in the vast majority of cases, this is simply not true. Never fear; medical science has discovered a solution to the problem and in conjunction with certain corporate backers, a new company has burst into the market that has completely reevaluated the sum of your parts.