Humorous fiction Books

Reagan, Nixon, and Goldwater, but the presence of these ghosts transports Allardice's novel into a literary netherworld that is always captivating and every once in a while genuinely spooky. This tale of a young artist lost in the woods of America's...

Tassie is not afraid to bare her soul, her freakishly long middle toe, or excess baggage carried around in a designer purse in this debut book inspired by her Greek life. Each chapter is a tidy, humorous story. From the 80s to the 2020s - Yaya's Big...

THEY ROCK! THEY ROLL! THEY'RE AFTER YOUR SOUL!A plague of mysterious singing stones have flooded the kingdom of Gramarye. Emanating beautiful, mesmerizing music of all sorts, they're capturing the eyes-and ears-of the good folk, young and old...

Combine an optimistic realtor selling a home with a sexual playground, a kindergartener convinced he's actually French and something called, "Chicken Soup for the Kidnapper's Soul," and you get Patrick Wensink's hilarious collection of short stories. Sex...

"Like a bionic Ralph Bakshi reborn from snorting Orwell's ashes, Kevin Shamel drags cherished childhood fantasies into the gutter of adulthood, and makes you pay dearly to swallow them all over again. Intelligence is a universal disease, but never fear.....

When math meets aftermath, all Hell will break loose.A near-death experience gives Dalton McGovern an epiphany-through a combination of computer programming and neurotechnology, he will create a virtual afterlife. With support from his unflappable but...

The Distinct Disadvantage... was originally written by Sternberg purely to distract himself from grief and/or the mundane. His stories gained an enthusiastic fan base that demanded they be made available for a wider audience, THAT’S YOU...

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...

'Don, would you happen to know the difference between a snob and a knob?' 'F****d if I know, mate ... You're the only Pom around, Ken. You're the bloody expert ...' Ken is a poised, polite, globetrotting British engineer and acute observer of...

A thrilling and delightful English comedy of stretched family loyalties, romantic entanglements and sinister happenings. A highly entertaining and utterly charming world in which to get lost. Infernal Relations chronicles the start to a season at...

This fourth book of Nasrudin tales from the acclaimed storyteller, Tahir Shah, concerns the trials and tribulations of the inimitable wise fool's life in the Land of Fools. Some Nasrudin stories are overtly hilarious, while others are downright odd,...

Shell-shocked from a night of everlasting labour, Sheryl cannot muster a "coo" let alone feel anything. Will she ever find her maternal mojo again?Sheryl and Steven have always longed for a baby however, nine months of yoga doesn't guarantee a...

'We have been dropped into a world of dazzling possibilities.'Leo, a hapless barista, is mistaken for the winner of a new record-breaking global lottery. So begins a rollercoaster ride as he tries desperately to do the right thing. His ex-wife is...

Padstow, home of The Mermaid and Bow Inn with Blencathra, the all-pervading landlady and her cowardly partner, Cap’n Bligh.Macdonald Tamryn, a fatherless, soon to be eighteen-year old, dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Will an Irish...

Eddie Long plans to be a country music star but he's stuck touring the college frat circuit. After his wife dies at the hands of a serial killer, Eddie writes the best song of his life. It goes straight to number one. And that's when all the trouble...

Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan. The document encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign. Yet hardly are the two of them airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern...

Mrs Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing... All she has to do is to masquerade as his aunt while he confirms the identities of seven undercover agents in Morocco - and keep him from making an unpleasant...

The story continues when Harry goes to the Dogs. His dream of setting up his greyhound kennels and racing the dogs at the Ta Qali stadium become a reality with the help of his loyal friends George, Aris and Pawlu and with the support of his sister Joan...

A darkly comic literary novel, LYING BASTARD is set in Long Beach, CA, and is narrated by adjunct English professor Berlin Saunders, who, as the book opens, is playing dead on the classroom floor after a school shooting. The story revolves around a...

Nothing goes as planned when a cold-hearted international thief descends upon the tiny Texas town of Red Dirt. Forced to masquerade as the girlfriend of a local good ol' boy, the thief soon finds herself pulled into the quirky and colorful lives of a...

Living and slaving in Fill City One, you get used to the smell. We call it the Everpresent Stink. But every once in a while, on a spring day with a breeze, it clears away enough to remind us that there is something more out there. Most Fillers'...

In 1969 there was a novel called Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe. A great literary hoax, the book was actually concocted by twenty-four journalists, each taking a turn at a chapter. Tortuga Triangle carries on in that same spirit, but makes no...

Eight humorous and satirical adventures of Wilbur Noat and his AI assistant, Fred.

The dual challenges of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that threatens the world and the unexplained loss of parents that threatens a family are the driving forces behind the lives of two boys and their grandfather.Willie, Denny and their grandfather, Pop,...

Joanie and Roz, widowed, septuagenarian sisters are back! You will find them still living in the retirement/vacation community of Rainbow’s End on Pelican Key, Florida enjoying their friends and life, in general.Their cross dressing best friend,...

From the author of NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS...PRIDE AND PLATYPUS: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful SecretWhen the moon is full over Regency England, all the gentlemen are subject to its curse.Mr. Darcy, however, harbors a Dreadful Secret.....

"Sometimes I stop and try to figure out where the stories come from and why I write the way I do. I'm sure much of it is a result of the land I grew up on and the people who were trying to scratch a living from it. If he stays in contact with it long...

It was the Depression and very few areas were as economically depressed as the rural South. The road in front of our house was dirt (mud when it rained) and with no electric lights and no plumbing, we lived a bare and stark existence. There was no money...

The fellas have grown up. The pool hall has transformed into a football field, a basketball gymnasium, and a baseball diamond. Joey's world revolves around a mix of old and new friends, being a college student and athlete, and delving into situations...

Clive Olsen's a well-respected Obstetrician, feels he knows everything about women. It's not until his wife becomes pregnant, that when he realizes that he doesn't know anything. So he does what any first time dad does, he goes to a more "experienced"...

The sequel to the hilarious Housewife Down

From the author of the hilarious Housewife Down and Housewife Up.

This book contains Arnold Bennett’s 1912 novel, "Helen with the High Hand - An Idyllic Diversion". As with many of his novels, it draws heavily from Bennett’s experiences of life in the Potteries. An innocent and utterly charming tale, Helen with the...

Ollie wants to lead a Boy Scout troop. Wade wants to lead soldiers into combat.Dr. Snider just wants to go home and retire. The three men find themselvestaking a group of reluctant teenagers on a campout in the wilds of NagornoKarabakh, where the get...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Introducing Lymescale & Grime, two detectives whose aim is to clean up crime.They are not conventional crime fighters in the mould of Starsky and Hutch or Holmes and Watson.Not so much, Mulder and Scully more, Ajax and Ariel.Lymescale & Grime: No case...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Outlaw Shuffle-a psychological thriller with a satirical twist-tells the story of an abduction, a chase across the Southwest during the pandemic summer of 2020, and a final showdown in Las Vegas.Hugh is a dishonored psychologist and lonely widower...

There is a wonderful saying: "The happiest people in the worldare not those who have no problems, but those who learn to livewith things that are less than perfect."In this highly competitive world, life of corporate work-force isfull of all kinds of...

Raj, with the help of his high-spirited father, sets out to conquer a pieceof land around the Bangalore city. Through some humorous and somehopeless misadventures, he realizes that it isn't as easy as it sounded. Thecloser he thinks he is to acquiring...

Si Klegg Volume 6, subtitled "Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign," is a novel by John McElroy. It is a part of a series that follows the exploits of the fictional characters Si Klegg and Shorty, two Union soldiers...

"Si Klegg, Book 5: Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys" is a novel by John McElroy, published in 1910. It is the fifth book in the Si Klegg series and follows the adventures of the eponymous character, a Union soldier during the...