Humorous fiction Books

The post-apocalyptic world isn't that bad.Sure, there are mutants. But, for the people of New Hope, daily life isn't so much a struggle of finding food or medicine as it is trying to find a new shortstop for their kickball team. This makes it difficult...

Bridget Jones fans will fall hard for this based-on-a-true-story, behind-the-scenes tale of a young woman’s calamitous adventures trying to break into the movie industry in 1990s Hollywood.Hollywood, 1997. When Charity Trickett moves to LA to assist the...

Three perfect strangers who help each other to believe in themselves again What they don’t know is that they are going to burst into each other’s world and turn each other’s lives upside down. What they don’t know is that strang ‘Uplifting,...

Hope You Are Satisfied welcomes you to Dubai as you've never seen it before...1990. Twenty-five-year-old Riya works for Discover Arabia, a tour guide company in the far-flung outpost of Dubai. In the months leading up to the first Gulf War, the...

Mina Clark is losing her mind-or maybe it's already gone. She isn't quite sure. Feeling displaced in her over-priced McMansion-dotted suburban world, she is grappling not only with deep debt, a mostly absent husband, and her playground-terrorizer 3-year...

"What fun! This novel has it all-romance, laughs, a dollop of mystery. I was entertained from start to finish... And I want those shoes!"-NY Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge"Like hanging out with your funniest friend over a glass of champagne, Rita...

"What Karl Lagerfeld is to fashion, Edward Vilga is to yoga. He has poured his years of experience into this sexy, charming and well-written escapade."-Simon Doonan, author Beautiful People, Gay Men Don't get Fat and the upcoming fashion memoir The...

A one woman showA one night standA one star review 'Sharp-witted, wise, and authentic – what a fierce, fantastically funny read' CLAIRE LOMBARDO'Funny, bold and tender … I loved this incendiary debut' EMILIA HARTAt the Edinburgh Fringe, vicious theatre...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, for anyone who's ever been ghosted – and wondered why…'Beth is a really clever, funny writer' Nina Stibbe 'Isabella's NOT dead.'Every time someone asks Gwen about her best friend – you know, the one who ghosted...

‘I was mesmerised by Happiness Forever … there is so much rare humour and insight and sweetness and humanity in its pages’ Sheila Heti, author of Pure ColourA hilarious, beguiling and utterly original debut novel following a woman trying to make sense of...

'A helter-skelter rush of delights...a slapstick horror-fantasy romp that sometimes achieves real depth and poignancy' Alan MooreWilliam S. Burroughs is dead and buried, but he can find no rest. His ghost is roaming the backstreets of...

Cult authors Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni's novel follows an insufferable horror-con lurker as he spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed...

Pushcart Prize Award-winning author Elizabeth Ellen's American Thighs tells the darkly comedic story of a thirty-one-year-old former child star's journey from Hollywood to Elkheart, Indiana, experiencing for the first time the off-screen life of a high...

Brilliant absurdist chronicle of a hapless outsider's struggle to do the right thing.Arnon Grunberg's fourteenth novel charts the downfall of Geniek Janowski, a Polish-German firefighter doing his best to be a good father, husband, lover and colleague,...

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.Sigrid hates working at...

In this witty satire book, Greg Cote questions whether advances in technology always signify progress or if they are sometimes overrated. #1 New Release in History Humor and TriviaA humorous look at the past. with Greg Cote, acclaimed Miami Herald...

Humorous, heartfelt, and endearing, My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor is the story of a young man (as empty as the Big Mac container itself) facing depression head on, and learning to find beauty and hope in a...

Horse Girl Fever is a hilariously weird collection, part autofiction, part outlandish daydream, that celebrates the horse girl within all of us.From cult author of The Red-Headed Pilgrim, Kevin Maloney delivers a vision of the world that is hysterical,...

'SPIKY, WITTY, A BREATH OF FRESH AIR' PANDORA SYKES'GOSSIPY, GRIPPING, BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN' LAUREN BRAVO'YOU WON'T SEE THE TWIST COMING' JESSICA KNOLL Florence Grimes is a 31-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. After a dismal end to...

The Sunday Times number one bestselling debut novel ‘Absolutely outrageous. A total snigger-fest.’ SINDHU VEE'Unputdownable. Thoroughly enjoyable and twisted.' KATERINA DIAMOND Welcome to a hen do where revenge is served colder than a frozen...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your...

‘A witty, heart-warming tale about woman’s best friend. You’ll love it!’ Nick Spalding‘A love story that honestly will just make you cheer… I loved it.’ Miranda Dickinson When your dog plays cupid…what could possibly go wrong?Loyal rescue pug Doug wants...

A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy & Son is a quietly moving masterpiece from one of Ireland’s most gifted comic writers. Eugene Duffy is turning 70; his son Jim is turning 40...

The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery...

New York Times Bestseller!Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s...

The New York Times bestselling author of Big Girl Panties puts a modern twist on My Fair Lady in this funny, romantic confection in which a canny young woman makes over her awkward millionaire client . . . with some hot, sexy, and surprising results...

Even the closest families have secrets ... it's when they are shared that things begin to change. The lives of three very different sisters collide in this witty new novel from bestselling author Maggie Alderson. Recently divorced Rachel is...

A classic fish-out-of-water romantic comedy -- can a city-slicker fall for a wildlife ranger? Can a city bird change her feathers? PR whizz Cassandra Daley isn't afraid of using all the dirty tricks of the trade to spin a story her way. A glitzy...

Les is back and on the detox ...All it took was a summer's day and a flat tyre on his push-bike, and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang intent on a drive-by. So, with Warren's help, Les Norton defendant, becomes Len Gordon...

Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure is action, humour, and intrigue with a diabolical twist, proving once again why Barrett is called the king of Australian popular fiction. If it wasn't for a letter lost in the system for decades landing...

Australia's favourite larrikin is back - Les Norton is on the road, and rockin'... Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can't run, he can't train. He can't do anything much. But he can still drive his car. So it's...

Our eminent founding father Ben Franklin once famously compared guests to stinking fish. While this assessment may seem a trifle harsh, the truth remains that social intercourse is a most risky endeavor. Who better to address this concern than the...

Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly...

A Hollywood insider draws from his four decades of experience to create a scathingly brilliant and caustically comedic bird's-eye view behind the scenes of comedy television.A wickedly delicious roman-a-clef about the making of a sitcom called My Urban...

What if an aging, unsuccessful Minnesota author of history books with names like Old von Steuben Had a Farm: The German-American Settlement of the Midwest decided he could write a book every bit as vapid and ridiculous as the books that sold four...

‘The perfect balance of romcom and drama!’ GRAZIA She kissed the groom. She’s not the bride…Edie thought she’d found The One…until he told her he was marrying someone else. And on the day of his wedding, when he kisses her, life really does go...

‘One of my favourite books of this year… the romantic and passionate scenes are some of the best I have ever read’ NetGalley Reviewer Will finding love break the family curse?Fact 1: Eva Mallory is the unluckiest woman in the world.Fact 2: Her...

'Hugely relatable!' Heat ________________________________Fans of Alexandra Potter and Marian Keyes will love Divorced Not Dead, a no-holds-barred, heartfelt and laugh-out-loud hilarious romcom about being fifty, but absolutely not yet dead yet! ...

**The bold, brilliant and buzzy new novel from Dawn O'Porter – HONEYBEE – is available to pre-order now** *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER and Richard & Judy book club pick*______________________________________________________________WHAT IF...

‘What can I say, I loved this book. It has all my favorite tropes. Fake dating – check! Grumpy/ sunshine (reversed) check! One bed – check!’ Reader reviewWhen you can’t find the perfect date for the holidays you hire him! Hotshot lawyer Rebecca Madison...

There’s a fine art to murder… Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he’s determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning...

‘Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way’ Lena Dunham Maya’s dog is dying, and...