Fiction - Satire

*Named a Best SFF Book of 2022 by Book Riot*They're underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this dangerous? Jacob Elliot doesn't want a temporary job in the...

James Lawson, a business entrepreneur from our times, has grown up with the belief that the main purpose of life is to maximise wealth. He only accepts that climate change is real when he realises he can make money out of dealing with it.Struck...

Zach Docter's debut short story collection is a perfect blend of stark reality and the zany! Full of ambiguous happenings, twist endings, and deep truths about humanity, this collection will keep you on the edge of your seat and chuckling along the way.Are the...

Being an adaptation of the Inferno and a retelling of the Masterpiece for our Modern Age with notes and illustration by the authors - the Brothers Grim & Grimy (undead).Author: Declan MoranISBN-10: 1678136662ISBN-13: 9781678136666Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2022Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 - 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as one of the most talented and prolific...

When the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at the chance, despite his professed dislike for cheese in all its forms. He soon finds himself submerged in a bureaucratic nightmare as...

CONFESSIONS OF A DISCONTENTED DIETY arose from the Biblical lesson that Man was created in the image of God. That must mean that if you want to understand more about God you should look at what Man is like and work backwards, right?That's what...

It's 1976, and Shelley Ilillouette, unemployed and without prospects, has never heard of the Kingdom of Tonga>--but when an artist offers her a job in this South Pacific kingdom, she takes it. She arrives in Tonga to discover that her employer has vanished. Alone...

Author: Jonas KarlssonISBN-10: 1799983285ISBN-13: 9781799983286Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2016Format: MP3 CD

The Plastic Garden shows us a new world with no suffering and only the body's activities to sustain us: a farcical parallel to modern life. When Mike falls in love, he doesn't know how to handle his emotions. Can the guru Mume Bibstripe save...

A hardened sleuth plumbs the darkest corners of the city-and his mind-in this visceral modern Noir.Winter. 2018. William Keele's back in town and he's barely getting by. Rents are up and wages are down and dirty cops are a dime a dozen. So when...

England, Their England is an affectionately satirical inter-war comic novel first published in 1933. It hit the right spot at the time and became a bestseller, and has endured as a classic of humor, transcending the passage of time. It is particularly famed for...

Enter a speculative universe where logic has been put on life-support, traditions have become useless appendages, and every character in these overtly farcical tales lives a hopelessly bewildered existence, carried along by a laughably dysfunctioning self-awareness antithetical to his or her well-being. If this...

Mathieu Poulin brings us an action comedy of a novel, starring big-budget, explosion-happy movie director Michael Bay. What if Bay were, against all odds, a misunderstood genius right up there with the likes of Plato, Sartre, and Nietzsche? What if his films were more...

From a bold voice in African fiction comes a satirical and unputdownable reimagining of an overlooked episode in Cameroon's colonial past.Cameroon, 1929. As colonial powers fight for influence in Africa, French military surgeon Eugène Jamot is dispatched to Cameroon to lead the fight against...

Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast...

From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship. "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest." -George Saunders, bestselling, award-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo...

Coming as an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn, here is a gleefully zany and incisively sharp tale from "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald). Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the...

Author: John Wayne ComunaleISBN-10: 1639510680ISBN-13: 9781639510689Publisher: Death's Head PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2019Pages: 339Format: Paperback

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's...

They say Bradshaw's crazy just because he talks to his cat and eats roadkill. They say that's why he was kicked out of MIT. He knows better, but he's not saying. Now he's come across a Government secret, a super weapon. Who can he...

Bestselling author Lauren Baratz-Logsted brings us a satirical, alternate-universe romantic comedy about Daisy Silverman, cleaning lady and lottery winner, who falls desperately in love with the one and only Prince Charles. Adriana Trigiani says, "Curl up and get ready to laugh long into the...

Genetically mutated former agents of the Bureau of Clown Intelligence battle the freaky beauties of the Barely Legal Squad. Erotic death rays, politics, cream pie facials and duct tape play complete the fun, from the author of Thee Order of Unholy Flesh and the...

What if President John F. Kennedy had survived and rocketed the Space Race of the 1960s into overdrive? And what if he was, maybe, not quite...himself? Space: 1969 is a wild and outrageous sci-fi comedy from the mind of Emmy-winning writer Bill Oakley (The...

A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history's most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As...

A hilarious parody of the movie, "Jurassic Park," complete with stage directions suitable for mounting your own production or staged reading. (Production rights available separately.)Author: John RobisonISBN-10: 1096561980ISBN-13: 9781096561989Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2019Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Prepare to embark on a thrilling comedic adventure seen through the booze-blurred eyes of Keesey Cypher, a government-trained killer with an ill-fated abundance of classified memories who has since resigned himself to a regrettable existence, sipping away his tainted past. It is this powerful...

A dream to return to happier days. An oath to serve and protect. A promise to reclaim what was lost. Can we seize the future by returning to the past, or will it come back to haunt us? My name is Buck Williams. Not...

Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred's.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals...

Lucifer Eve and Adam is a sweet, delightful, love-story romp through the Garden of Eden. Inspired by the incredible Mark Twain's Eve's Diary, this "absolutely true" and "completely honest" fantasy of Creation transforms the dark and distorted myth of the subordination of women and...

The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit's for pledges. Tiffany's on the hunt for something more. Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her...

A suspenseful tale of university sophomores struggling to come to terms with their individual and collective identities.Author: Brian HermanISBN-10: 1667845993ISBN-13: 9781667845999Publisher: BookbabyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2022Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d

Every businessperson wants their business to succeed, and this is no different for Death.The lack of World Wars, medical intervention and soap may have been great for humanity but they have caused significant issues for Death and his business. Humans just don't seem to...

EASTER SUNDAY, 1973: Just before dawn in Kingsburg, California, six-year-old Gordon Swannson, asthmatic boy genius, gets his ass kicked by a spectral Easter Bunny--an event that sends his already hyperactive imagination spiraling toward paranoia. Gordon becomes convinced that ghosts and other weird entities inhabit...

The second novel in Pitol's Carnival trilogy following The Love Parade continues his daring, genre-melding, picaresque style.From the famous Mexican author, Sergio Pitol, comes his 1988 classic translated by George Henson. Taming the Divine Heron tells the semi-autobiographical story of a novelist working on...

When the doors to the North Columbus Wow-Mart open at midnight on Black Friday, ringing in the "Wowzathon" event of the century, chaos breaks out.A rampaging mob threatens to tear the store apart. Santa Claus is drunk, and a washed-up Halloween diva takes his...

Coinman is one of life's victims, the receiver of subtle bullying in an office environment and thinly disguised control in his own home, but remains true to his desire to be polite and accepting of how he is treated by everyone. Then an incident...

Setting the Record Straight: A Compleat History of the Alternate States of America tells the story of our country's history, from the time that Christopher Columbus set sail with his three ships, right up to, and even beyond our time in the twenty-first century....

Coming of age can be an adventure. No one knows this better than William James Tillit, an abandoned child from east Texas raised by his loving aunt and uncle, devout evangelical siblings who are determined to do their best by their young nephew. Will...

A recent college graduate lands the perfect job: helping people and protecting the earth at an environmental consulting firm. But he soon learns that not everyone there shares his ideals...and his biggest challenge comes from a devious geoscientist whose greed for fossil fuels creates...

I am a perfectly functional adult.So why is it so hard to get a date? When my father decided last year that I wouldn't receive my inheritance until I am in a stable relationship, I let the ever-important deadline slip through the cracks.Why bother...

Welcome to The Shipley Hotel, where the perky and attentive staff provides the gold standard in artificial concern and comfort to all the colorful characters who pass through its polished brass revolving door and find themselves in The Lobby. Practically engineered for eavesdropping, San...

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." --New York Times Book Review When the...

"AT ONCE A PLAYFUL BRAINTEASER ABOUT GEOMETRY, A POINTED SATIRE OF VICTORIAN MANNERS-AND A STRANGELY COMPELLING ARGUMENT ABOUT THE GREATEST MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE." - The Wall Street JournalAuthor: Edwin A. AbbottISBN-10: 1722503688ISBN-13: 9781722503680Publisher: G&D MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w...

In the cubicle building blocks of American industry, April of 2009 brought workers little more than meeting requests to pull them away from barely hidden job searches and online gambling losses on their 401Ks. Product Wave, Ltd., a global software company headquartered in Massachusetts,...

A failed career. A disillusioned wife. A suspect engine. Serious headaches, in no particular order. But life is about to go from bad to worse for Guy Hastings. Drafted to sort out his dead lawyer uncle's affairs, he soon becomes embroiled in a web...

The Christmas Rabbit is an adult satire on the commercialization and corruption of the two main Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter. It tells the tale of how Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny came to be and how they were subsequently were conned and...

Hollywood claims to love equal opportunity and multicultural diversity. Development executive Diana D agen thinks the studio's hiring is based more on ageism, sexism, and nepotism. And so, surrounded by followers of Wicca, astrology, Native American shamans, telephone psychics, UFO prophets, a channeled warlord...

The wife of Britain's greatest living novelist hears terrible screams coming from his study. She knows there are two people from his past who want to kill him. As she runs from the grounds of their country estate into their manor house to confront...

What would happen if Marcus Garvey had achieved his dreams by force? Satirizing one of the most influential figures of twentieth century Black America, George S. Schuyler's Black Empire is a remarkable look into the complicated politics of race and class. After witnessing a...