Humorous fiction Books

"Zum Axel-Springer-Haus, aber bitte ein bisschen flott. Und nicht über Wannsee!" Fünf Jahre Taxichauffeur in Berlin - das hinterlässt Spuren. Eine literarische Aufarbeitung in 21 Kurzgeschichten.

Willkommen im Pandemiepanoptikum!Die Eigenheiten eines Lockdowns sind zweifelsohne beunruhigend und mitunter sogar etwas skurril. Vor allem, wenn man am Institut für Kriminologie und Forensik tätig ist, welches durch das kollektive Homeoffice nahezu...

Jeder Hundebesitzer kann von seinem Hund eine lustige Geschichte erzählen. Deswegen habe ich die Besten gesammelt und aufgeschrieben, einige Erlebnisse wurden mir erzählt und ich erlebte sie mit meinem eigenen Hund. Ich besaß auch ungezogene Hunde und...

Was tut die Journalistin, wenn sie dank Corona, Lockdown und Homeoffice plötzlich viel mehr Zeit mit der eigenen Familie verbringt als je gedacht? Sie schreibt - für die eigene geistige Gesundheit und für alle, die gerne Teil ihres abstrusen, chaotischen...

Kurze Theaterstücke für viele Gelegenheiten, die mit wenig Aufwand inszeniert werden können. Viele Stücke wurden bereits erfolgreich aufgeführt und eignen sich auch für Amateurtheater, insbesondere für bunte Nachmittage, Fasching oder Adventsfeiern...

Auch im zweiten Teil von "klein-groß-mittel und das dritte Kind schläft durch" erzählt die dreifache Mama mit einem Augenzwinkern von familiären Alltagsturbulenzen. Unter dem Motto - kommt dir das bekannt vor - werden humorvolle Geschichten erzählt, die...

Das Gartenlexikon aus der Heiteren Lexikon­reihe Nimms mit! Humor. von Torsten Buchheit für Menschen mit grünem Daumen. Amüsant und liebevoll ironisch gibt der Autor humorvolle Erklärungen für über 300 Fachbegriffe aus der Welt des Hobbygärtners: von...

Das Heimwerkerlexikon aus der Heiteren Lexikon-Reihe Nimms mit! Humor. von Torsten Buchheit, besonders interessant für Menschen mit überwiegend linken Händen.Amüsant und liebevoll ironisch beschreibt der Autor die Widrigkeiten im Leben des Heimwerkers...

Wer sich das Lachen abgewöhnt hat, wird schnell wieder rückfällig, wenn ihm Lachnummern in die Hände fällt: Den unübertroffenen Sketchen, Gags und Blackouts aus der Feder des ehemaligen Wochenshow-Autors Siegfried Schilling kann niemand widerstehen.

Annabell ist es leid. Sie will endlich abnehmen. Und nebenbei am besten noch einen Traummann abstauben. Das kann doch nicht so schwer sein! Doch wo immer sie auftaucht, lauert auch schon das nächste Fettnäpfchen, in das sie mit Schwung hineinspringt. So...

Schicksal schlägt Planung, oder Scheiß drauf! Es kommt eh meist anders als man denkt, und 44 ist ja auch das neue 34.Alex (44) macht mit Willi (fast 50) ihrem Lebensgefährten Urlaub. Zehn Tage in einer Finca auf Mallorca. Das könnte wirklich schön...

À défaut d'unir la gauche, trois jeunes amis élaborent un plan farfelu pour diviser la droite.Candidat des Cons est une nouvelle politico-humoristique se déroulant durant une présidentielle fictive. À ce titre, les personnages sont imaginaires, mais...

Après "Game Over ! Play Again ?" Josiane Wolff nous revient avec une nouvelle histoire pour le théâtre, en français et en néerlandais : celle de Jean Lenormand, ex-flic à l'Antigang de Paris, en revalidation dans une abbaye où il se prépare à devenir...

Madame Cyber-Ubu est astrologue internationale, ex-conseillère en communication de Monsieur Cyber-Ubu. Journaleuse des feuilles à trois francs six sous. Décorée de l'ordre du mérite des Dames Patronnesses du pays de la Butte.Monsieur Cyber-Ubu est le...

A comedic tale of finding one's self-worth, career stability, the dangers of drugs, love, and how a little luck can make all the difference. From dealing with crazy neighbors, difficult co-workers and the struggle of just getting by in your twenties,...

Since an early age Jason Rosen is a summer camp nomad, shipped off to various sleepaway camps so his parents can have the summer to themselves. A loner at home, he finds it just as difficult to make friends at camp until the summer of 1969. Amidst the...

Dog Man might be the last great Baby Boomer novel.It is the self-told story of Rudi Werner, an engaging Boomer gone bust who learns about change the hard way: He lives it. Battling his demons all the way, Rudi accepts the challenge of opening and...

“Hilarious, fast-paced and riveting.” - Harlequin Junkie, Recommended ReadWhen Chicago’s Hottest Snack Cake Heir…Josh Kincaid went from rags to riches when he was adopted by the family who owns the Sweet Dreams Snack Cakes empire...

He’s the Spare Heir of Bliss’s most famous jewelry shopMax Gregory’s family is best known for creating and displaying the world’s most cursed diamond ring, but here in the bridal capital of the world, Max is best known for having...

Hell has come to claim the last mortal universe. A bleeding tower has burst through the 24-Hour Fitness parking lot. Demons circle the city of San Diego. One name is called to challenge Lucifer's Champion: Greg Maxwell.Who is Greg Maxwell? Imagine...

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Parties are my library, says notorious party-crasher, Lower East Side denizen, and exuberantly idiosyncratic prose stylist Marvin Cohen. In this surrealistic suite of stories, dialogues and other party-dances, Cohen dissects...

The only problem that clouds Lucien and Silvia Wade's calm, comfortable life is that Lucien wants children and Silvia does not. When the wild Polydore children-Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Emerald, Demetrius, and Diogenes-move in next door, however, chaos...

Don’t you hate it when you may (or may not) be trapped endlessly in a Village Inn with your ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, coincidentally your ex-best friend? That’s the kind of day Cassandra is having. In a homogenized world that is...

Tired of working McJobs and the gig economy, Amy Love thinks she'll never amount to anything. Then an angel visits her and tells her to take a job with Tommy Norman, a famous psychopath. Tommy has come to Iowa to assist in a merger between a satanic...

Move over, Jean Shepherd! Young Bridget in award winning Dodging Satan takes refuge in wacky misunderstandings of 1960s Bible Stories and Catholic iconography to avoid problems in her Irish/Italian family life. Her musings will have you in stitches...

Pomeroy, a towering street musician on parole, is out of the clink for the upteenth time and wants to become another Bob Dylan. With fame and fortune in mind, he heads to Occupy Oakland, hoping to get on television, attract an agent, and score a million...

Surrounded by women who are only too ready to help him give in to his awakening sexuality, Brendan O'Reilly, a handsome young Catholic priest, is considering giving up the cloth when the Archbishop grants him a transfer.On his way to the supposedly quiet...

Creative ne're-do-well Flip Montcalm isn't cut out for office life, so he jumps at the chance to join an MFA program in the rural Midwest. Broke and infatuated with the 20th century literary canon, he alienates his writing workshop with five hundred...

Do you love horses and a rattling good read? If you do, then BlueBuckle is a book for you.India Levy arrives in the New South Wales Highlands town of Burragong to sell her grandmother's house. She'll be back in London pursuing her ambition to...

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 down by a...

A rookie cop. A team of supernatural detectives. Recalcitrant baby vampires on the loose.My name is Cat McKenzie, and I've been a very bad girl...No, not in the I-need-a-spanking way...pervert.Nope, my kind of bad got my partner killed on my first day of...

Lillian White's Journey is the debut novel by Karen Kelly. Written for Women's Fiction this is truly a feel-good, humorous read about a group of thirty something girls experiencing life, love and relationships. Join Lillian White on her journey...

From the writer of The Twenty Seven Club...Dumped, drunk and desperate - will a job serving ice-cream at the park save Emma from herself?It's 1996. Emma's been rejected by the man she loves and sacked from the job she hates but desperately needs. Feeling...

SHADOWY CORNERSTales of Menace, Mystery and HumourShadowy Corners is a diverse collection of stories designed to keep you on the edge of your seat.Some of the stories have been published in magazines; others have won prizes in competitions.The first...

Secondo l'autore, a voler stringere questo libro si potrebbe frettolosamente definire "una raccolta di satiro-fanta-cronache liberamente ispirate da alcune partite giocate dalla Juventus, scelte con rigoroso criterio a casaccio, cotte nel sottovuoto...

The society wedding of the decade has everything: the blushing bride, beautiful flowers... and the groom arrested before he can walk down the aisle? Thank goodness Lady Swift is on the guest list! Lady Eleanor Swift isn't normally one for grand...

A grand villa, croissants for breakfast and a dead body in the wine cellar... Lady Swift can't seem to take a vacation from murder! Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France...

For too long, humanity has wrapped itself in a cloak of lies that have indoctrinated us into believing that having a family is a worthy endeavour. Our narrator, M'Lord Chook, shreds this cloak like an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo. We are given front row...

Ray is struggling. He lost two fingers in Iraq, and maybe he's lost something more. Or has he just forgotten himself? Perhaps an undemanding job at the local medical marijuana start-up will be just what he needs. But the brave new world of legal...

Following on from his bestselling novels A Year in the Wild and Back to the Bush, James Hendry returns to the setting of Sasekile Private Game Reserve for another tale that takes the reader behind the scenes with the MacNaughton brothers, Angus and Hugh...

"Funny, poignant, each chapter a surprise, as this young man not only discovers the magic of Cornwall, but the magic inherently in him." - Deidre GainorA humorous, fish out of water story, this page-turner is a delight, a romp through Cornwall that...

Reminiscent of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, although it's aimed at an adult readership-Kirkus ReviewsAbandoned at birth, raised by her nan, and shunned by polite society, Celia Canterberry is a force to be reckoned with. Between...

Endi and Coleman are at it again ... this time over silver-infused ballast rocks estimated at two billion dollars! Along with May, they are forced to join forces with a few unusual, and untrustworthy, partners-among whom include a part-time dentist slash...

In book three of Gail Cushman's Wrinkly Bits series, Wasting Time, Audrey and Logan decide that the way to assert their independence and gain their children's attention is to run away from home and escape to Sun Valley, Idaho. While cold weather...

"A nimble political satire that should appeal to Americans of every stripe...reminiscent of books by Christopher Buckley, the author of Thank You for Smoking (1994)" - Kirkus Reviews Suspected terrorists attack with a pre-dawn bomb spree, baffling...

It's the summer of 1989 and also the last ever summer of the 1980s. So, what do you do? You go out with a bang, of course. For Wes Tucker, however, his idea of going out with a bang wasn't quite what he expected. Wes and his best friend Eric had just...