Black Humor
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A Beginner’s Guide to Murder
$12.99 Read more* Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2022 *
‘Guaranteed to hook you . . . At times both touching and darkly funny’ Anna Bailey, Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones
‘A beguiling, beauti
- Author: Stopps, Rosalind
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0008302650
- Language: English
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House Mother Normal
$14.95 Read moreHouse Mother Normal, subtitled “A Geriatric Comedy,” is the English writer B. S. Johnson’s fifth novel. Unusual in both its subject and structure, this novel is a remarkable study of old age, stripped… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, B. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0811222144
- Language: English
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The Life of the Mind
$19.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, The Atlantic, Electric Lit, Thrillist, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews – A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in … [more below]
- Author: Smallwood, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229916
- Language: English
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Foul Play
$9.99 Read moreOriginally published under the pen name Steffie Hall, “Foul Play” is the ninth release of Evanovich’s early short romance novels. Long out of print, this red-hot screwball comedy tells a tale of love … [more below]
- Author: Evanovich, Janet
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0061690384
- Language: English
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T Singer
$15.95 Read moreT Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden, located in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway. T
- Author: Solstad, Dag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 0811225968
- Language: English
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There’s No Business
$12.99 Add to cart- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856229
- Language: English
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Hospital
$28.99 Read moreFrom acclaimed Chinese author Han Song comes a twisted, experimental narrative of one man’s mysterious illness and his journey through a dystopian hospital system.
When Yang Wei travels to C City for w
- Series: Hospital #1
- Author: Song, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039479
- Language: English
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The Name of the World
$16.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Jesus’ Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern universit
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060929650
- Language: English
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Memoirs and Misinformation
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “None of this is real and all of it is true.” –Jim Carrey
Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but h- Author: Carrey, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 052556568X
- Language: English
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The Fish Can Sing
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner–“a beacon in twentieth-century literature” (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life). A poignant coming-of-age tale marked with… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0307386058
- Language: English
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Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World
$17.95 Read moreThis New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, is “hilarious . . . a riotous success. Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely… [more below]
- Author: Ives, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1593763905
- Language: English
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Death and the Penguin
$17.99 Read more“No summary can do justice to the strange appeal of this unusual, short book, which is at once a crime novel, a comic novel and a serious political satire on contemporary Ukraine.” –Anne Applebaum, T… [more below]
- Series: Melville International Crime
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1935554557
- Language: English
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Inside Story
$18.00 Read moreFrom one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time, an autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die
“[A]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 059331171X
- Language: English
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Three Assassins
$27.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick
From Kotaro Isaka, the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane thriller Three Assassins, set in Tokyo’s cri- Author: Isaka, Kotaro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1419763857
- Language: English
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Nature Girl
$19.00 Add to cartPassionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0593082370
- Language: English
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Snobs
$18.00 Add to cartJulian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel
- Author: Fellowes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250020360
- Language: English
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Anxious People Gente Ansiosa (Spanish Edition)
$18.99 Add to cartAhora una serie de Netflix que se emitirá el 29 de diciembre de 2021!
Un robo a un banco con toma de rehenes. Una escalera llena de policÃas a punto de asaltar un apartamento. Llegar a esto fue sor
- Author: Backman, Fredrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0062980580
- Language: Spanish
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Snuff
$18.00 Add to cartIn the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends … [more below]
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0307275841
- Language: English
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Gunk Baby
$17.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“[Lau’s] gift for writing accumulative insanities creates the same dizzying effect as a good cleaning.” –Alexandra Tanner, The New York Times Book Review- Author: Lau, Jamie Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 166260145X
- Language: English
