Fiction - Satire

Welcome to Vladimir Putin's phantasmagoric world, where a heady mixture of Orthodoxy, socialism, imperialism, racism, homophobia, and Mother Russia worship defines and distorts reality. Vovochka is the story of "Vovochka" Putin and his intimate friend-a KGB agent with the same nickname. The two Vovochkas...

She never imagined her part-time job would be so dangerous Life was going well for twenty-five-year-old Repo Agent Andrea Sloan. She hadn't stumbled across any more naked dead guys at work, and her love life was pretty much wonderful. Her biggest problems were keeping...

'Push Yourself' and other stories. ...Marrying into a French/Italian family - 40 years of living in France. This authobiographic book follows on from 'Philodog and other stories' published in 2019. I was the 'skinny anchovy' (according to her grandmother), an effeminate non sports lover...

Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60's, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an imagined one night stand with Jimmy Buffett. Years later on her deathbed her final words inadvertently send her son, 14...

Author: P. G. WodehouseISBN-10: 1731704003ISBN-13: 9781731704009Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2018Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

Over 700 pages of Magic, Dragons, and Cats... The unlikely duo who might just save the world Ben must be the hungriest cat ever... One moment, he was enjoying a breakfast of salmon trimmings in his home in South Wales. The next, he was...

Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: "All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls 'the great war between the old and young.' And what...

Awarded Finalist Prize in the 2019 American Fiction Awards 'Short Stories' Category by American Book Fest. An utterly fascinating and wryly composed collection of companion stories to Edward Gorey's alphabetical illustrations in 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies. These darkly humorous tales capture the essence of wit...

In Existentially Challenged, the sequel to Differently Morphous, the men and women of the Department of Extradimensional Affairs continue their struggle to uncover the motives of the Ancients under the ever-present threat of death, insanity, and sensitivity training. With magic declassified in the UK,...

"The daily grind got you down? Escape into this Swedish dark comedy about a scaldingly contemptuous office drone who discovers a secret room in his workplace."--O: The Oprah Magazine The inspiration for the upcoming feature film Corner Office, starring Jon Hamm Bjn is a...

A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls. Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches at is consuming his life, no...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Lyly's THE WOMAN IN THE MOON, about Pandora, the first woman.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright your translation, publish or self-publish it, and...

Father Rossi is the pastor of a small parish in an older area of Los Angeles who finds himself with a medical problem that seems impossible. While he is wrestling with the realities, God decides to send him Tabbris, the Angel in charge of...

In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King's daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy--literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.With climate change raging, Athena has come to believe that saving...

William "Bomber" Merridan is a small-town grocery store manager by day and a monster hunter by night. While Bigfoot is sexier, Bomber's passion is for the legendary Michigan Dogman. Connie Hayes is Fox Hollow's first-ever female Sheriff, not to mention the first Native American...

Krick isn't very good at being a giant monster. His brother and sister tease him because it seems like he wants to save the city more than destroy it. His incompetence brings so much shame and embarrassment to his family that his father disowns...

Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin...

"Kind of like what might happen if Richard Brautigan had been hired to co-write an episode of Adventure Time. Scary People is playful and painful and surreally real, and great fun to read." - BRIAN EVENSONAuthor: Kyle MuntzISBN-10: 1621052060ISBN-13: 9781621052067Publisher: Eraserhead PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2015Pages:...

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home, Candide finds himself on a journey that will...

"Brilliant . . . Miguel Syjuco is his country's most original and unflinching literary voice." --Salman Rushdie "It's a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author's reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out...

'Perfect for fans of 'A Man called Ove' by Fredrik Backman. Funny, moving, clever, mysterious and challenging, with a fabulous central character who always remains one strong-willed and whimsical man standing against the world.Dominic likes anonymity, his local Drumcondra park, his neighbour's cat, Boris,...

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after...

Kevin L Donihe is in the vanguard of a new type of brave and original writers that combine fun and childlike imagination with rich poignant themes. In his second collection, Papier Mache Jesus, Donihe's surreal wit and beautiful mind-bending imagination is on full display...

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a...

Obamasaurus is a fictional political satire relaunched with a new twist formerly published as the 2013 Irwin Award winning short story, Obamacare, Dinosaurs, Rednecks & Radicals. This political satire is written to remind free people who believe they were created by God and those...

"Sometimes our past is the only truth-teller, specially when the real-life persons are not always factual to us, or when the personal memories likewise are not so certain over the years." Such is the wisdom of kind-hearted Erasmus T. Yang, frustrated journalist wannabe and...

An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition With All Original Illustrations, To Include: How To Tell A Story - In Defense Of Harriet Shelley - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses - Traveling With A Reformer - Private History Of The 'Jumping Frog' Story - Mental Telegraphy Again -...

By turns a children's fantasy and a social satire for adults, Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular adventure tales of all time. Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship's surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer,...

THE LAST MAN STANDING?Earth is in crisis. And the intergalactic managers who oversee all creatures of the Milky Way Galaxy are tasked to bottom-line man's usefulness. Should they let homo sapiens survive or watch them continue to their own destruction? To answer that, the...

The 2 tomes, Infinity of Zeitgeist Doppelgangers and The Compleat OWL: The Forever Zeitgeist 1950-2050, have been created primarily for a reader-market who hasn't been born yet. Through the lens of satire they will read about the thoughts, beliefs and aspirations of those who...

The voice of disgraced love guru Brooks Nixon seems to haunt Hope Townsend, showing up at inopportune moments to deliver unwelcome commentary on her hapless romances. Brooks―who once doled out cliched dating advice to millions―fell out of favor with his fanbase when a life-altering...

Poison Pen is the absurdist tale of redemption about a depressed game show host known for his cruel on-air insults and crude behavior. The story, as told by a misanthropic poison-pen-letter writer, offers an off-beat look at American culture while exploring themes of life,...

The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro) and contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town. His perversity however thwarts all his mother's efforts...

"Funny as hell, brilliant dialogue, great characters who I just want to hang with forever and an air-tight story-line that thinks of every contingency and plans accordingly." -Tom McCaffrey, bestselling author of The Claire TrilogyWhat sucks about waking up next to a dead girl...

Heath Ison's collection of short stories and poems featuring: Beloved, Masticating Ghosts On Cybersphere, Glass Eater, Obligated Skin, Anti-Grip, The Infinite Crisis of A Neglected Box, and more.Author: Heath IsonISBN-10: 0692174869ISBN-13: 9780692174869Publisher: Plastic/OtherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2020Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d

First published in 1859, this novella by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky is laced with deceit and greed. Maria and her daughter Zina decide to deceive an elderly and senile prince who comes to visit their town. The mother attempts to manipulate the prince into...

If there are no strings attached, why is it so hard to let go?AdamThe Wheaton family name is famous for their luxury hotels, so that must make me the playboy heir, right?Well, turns out that's the easiest role for me to play.After all, most...

Monster Stalks NYC When a local drunk is mugged near the toxic Gowanus Canal by "a hulking, hairy beast who smells really bad," Hank Kalabander thinks nothing of blaming the assault on the legendary Bigfoot. His sardonic crime blotter for The Hornet, a local...

A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections each delving into the morals and ethics of English. Composed between...

From the author of The End of the World is FlatThe Terg wars are over. Now meet the Yerfs'Brilliant! Perfectly captures both the absurdity and horror ofthis madness'. Gareth Roberts When Tara Farrier returns to the UK after along spell as an aid worker...

I have, this morning, read your review of "A Thoughtless Yes." I wish to thank you for the pleasant things said and also to make the connection-which I am surprised to see did not present itself to your mind-between the title and the burden...

Harvey Hudson is an emotionally scarred, fifty-six-year-old history professor who has lost his job, his wife, and his self-respect. In desperation, Harvey takes a high-tech job for which he is totally unqualified. So, he outsources it to India.Then Harvey discovers that a Russian intelligence...

"A horror filled look at the reality of the damage internet trolls can cause, with a touch of bizarro." Kevin J. Kennedy, author of Halloween Land. Scotty is no stranger to being bullied, but after a chance encounter on an online chatroom, finds hope...

In The Player, the Hollywood classic that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last $6 million, and broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His...

Buried secrets. Mystic symbols. Revolutionary action. Edinburgh is uneasy in the aftermath of the independence referendum. Relations between Holyrood and Westminster are poor, and a humiliating football result won't help. Hamish 'Hard' Knox, investigative journalist, craves adventure, so when his friends are kidnapped, he...

You've seen them in every action film. You've read about them in spy-thrillers. Their deaths are abrupt and often met with cheers. They are henchmen, the expendable underlings of super villains and crime lords. But even they have a story to tell...Author: Kyle DeckerISBN-10:...

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over. Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up...

"If you liked Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, read The Society of Shame by Jane Roper." --The Washington Post In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's...

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by...

A hopeful, speculative short story collection about how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change. "Climate fiction does not owe readers hope, but through humor and humanity Hyde manages to present a harsh reality without descending into despair, offering a space for...