Love Your Enemies
From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in ‘Love Your Enemies’ present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked suburban Britons.
Satirical fiction & parodies
Heading Inland
Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.
What Rhymes with Bastard?
The hilariously candid story of an unbelievably dysfunctional and disintegrating relationship.
Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide: A Collection of Short Stories
A wonderful collection on topical themes from the controversial ‘product-placement’ author of The Bulgari Connection.
With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed
Lynne Truss’s first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers.
A Certain Age
From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, a wonderfully funny collection of twelve monologues.
Eating Mammals
Three wonderfully original, linked novellas based on true stories from the winner of the Paris Review’s Discovery Award. A new voice from Yorkshire, John Barlow has been compared to Michel Faber and T.C. Boyle. This is his first book.
Small Holdings
Hilarious, poignant and frequently surreal, Small Holdings is a is a comedy of errors from a neglected corner of everyday life by the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker.
Vacant Possession
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved ‘Every Day is Mother’s Day’.
Glover’s Mistake
From a rising young novelist comes an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary London.
Tennyson’s Gift
From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.
With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed
Lynne Truss’s first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers.
Every Day Is Mother’s Day
From the author of the Man Booker prize-winners ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ comes a story of suburban mayhem and merciless, hilarious revenge.
Glover’s Mistake
The second novel from exciting, young novelist Nick Laird – an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary London.