Humorous fiction Books

A Brief DebacleEdna and Gertie Simmons live a leisurely life, and as they have aged into their seventies, their thirst for adventure has slowly diminished. However, when Edna finds that her briefcase, containing some of her most sentimental pieces of...

Will Strief has just fallen from the sky… Literally. He is no angel. He is a parachutist for the infamous French Foreign Legion, or he was until one bad jump leaves him shattered: physically, mentally, and spiritually.  After a life...

It's all about survival, just eliminate the brain.   Harley Monroe grew up in a broken home and managed to protect her sister, Chiyo, from madness by always including her when hanging out with friends. Lucy Montoya is looking for a...

War was easy. The battle with himself is another story... When Will returns to America after years overseas, he comes with high hopes of reconnecting with his younger brother. But being a disgruntled veteran and a struggling depressive, Will isn't...

Three blokes. Three lewd tales set in China, South Wales and Saudi Arabia. What more do you want? Features the stories ...But Sometimes You Can Get What You Need, God Always Gives You One Day & A Clean Break...? Dave Franklin has written ten novels. ...

Set in New York City, Fourth of July is a dark tale of privilege run amok. Ogden Goodman is a wealthy lawyer who, harried one evening by boredom, hires a homeless man to perform for his family. The success of that evening's performance leads Ogden--and...

Love is one of those four-letter words that people like to throw around – but sometimes love can be one of the meanest and nastiest games in town.Here are three of the strangest love stories you have ever read.Change of Pace – for a taste of...

The novel is interspersed with rambling reflections and philosophical musings that alternate between vile and inspired. Bob is a rejected man. He is rejected by his family, by his community and by a system of justice disgusted by his existence. Yet,...

Karis Booth uses her psychic abilities to solve a murder which takes place at a wedding.Using money from her divorce settlement, Karis invests in her sister's café. Not only are Karis and Erin planning to extend the café premises, they are...

"Candle flames flicker in the lamps on the flanks of our governess cart as a silver moon and sprinkled stars illuminate the driveway ahead."This collection of short stories begins with a midnight cart drive through the snow to Midnight Mass. Other true...

Dani Kaposi is not satisfied. His romantic life is nebulous at best, he has the potential to relapse at a moment's notice, and his day job is no longer enough. He takes the same route to work every day, always walking the same streets and passing the...

Lotte-Marie goes Down Under er en humoristisk kriminalroman (satire) inspirert av filmen Eyes Wide Shut med Nicole Kidman og Tom Cruise, og Flaggermusmannen av Jo Nesbø. Filmen er en erotisk thriller regissert, produsert og skrevet av Stanley...

""Coisas Que Fazem Rir"" (1859) ����� um livro escrito por Um Liberal, pseud�����nimo de Lu������s Augusto Rebelo da Silva, um escritor e pol������tico portugu������s do s�����culo XIX. A obra ����� composta por uma s�����rie de cr�����nicas e contos...

The New Gulliver is a satirical novel written by Wendell Phillips Garrison and published in 1898. The book is a parody of Jonathan Swift's classic novel Gulliver's Travels, and follows the adventures of a modern-day Gulliver as he travels to various...

The Miseries of Human Life Volume 1: Or The Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive, with a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy, is a book written by James Beresford and published in 1826. The book is a collection of humorous essays that explore...

The Five Days Entertainments At Wentworth Grange is a collection of short stories written by Francis Turner Palgrave and published in 1865. The book is set in the English countryside and features a group of friends who gather at the country estate of...

Tangles and Tales: Being the Record of a Twelvemonth's Imbroglio is a novel written by Edward Charles Mogridge in 1865. The book tells the story of a young girl named Mary, who is orphaned and sent to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. Mary...

The Adventures Of Theodore: A Humorous Extravaganza is a book written by Jim Higgers and published in 1901. The book follows the misadventures of a character named Theodore, who is portrayed as a bumbling and comical figure. The story is set in a...

What do you call clothes kept in the cupboard for years in the vain hope you'll fit into them once more? What's the name of the wild dance, first forward then backward, performed by standing passengers when a bus comes to a sudden halt? And what do you...

In the late 1930s young Bessie Drew is working in a biscuit factory in Sydney. Her family are not well off, and it feels like arguing is their only way of communicating. Working around her father’s violent obstreporousness and her mother’s...

A hot-headed vow to marry the first woman he sees, a meeting in a muddy bog, a hasty marriage between strangers, and a bride who demands to be courted - after the wedding.In order to take his place as laird before his trustee uncle bankrupts the clan...

A childhood trauma leaves N. emotionally stalled but yearning for connection. When she meets a seductive but damaged young attorney, she falls hard, overlooking his technology vendetta, fear of intimacy, and dark past. But their affair ends abruptly,...

The hit-and-run death of a schoolmate rocks Carol Andrews' world. The tragic accident, still unsolved, soon becomes a rallying cry for pedestrian safety in an upcoming town council election. Ignoring the advice of her husband, who points out that she...

Maxwell is a little brown field mouse who resides with his wee wife, Maisie, and their not-so-little family in the garage of a condo building in River City, aka Lethbridge. Being illiterate, he is mentored by his learned cousin, McKinley. McKinley lives...

Mark's experience and love of history has given him a keen eye and dry quirky sense of humour that veils a message about the human condition. In A Cat's History of the World, Mark speaks from the cat's perspective of history's events - tongue in cheek,...

Life can be hectic.Reading time can be limited.A novel can take weeks to conquer.The solution?222 Very Short Stories is a collection of stories each so short that a whole story can be consumed in one night...some even in a minute.The stories cover the...

Why is making a wedding such a trauma? Well, it brings together two families that just because their children have found love/friendship and common ground, who is to say that the rest of the families will have anything in common? Every emotion is...

Book 1 in the Pigs Trilogy.Welcome to your darkest fears, your highest desires, your shaded, deepest concerns. Bobby Cavendish carefully unravels all his personal reservations and past mistakes within the most corrupt and desperate law-abiding disasters...

Junior Reclamation Agent Stuart Bode is offered the promotion of his dreams (with a private office to boot) in exchange for a seemingly simple task: tracking down a stolen corporate freighter and recovering its cargo. "If the cargo ain't recoverable,"...

What if an animal could resemble a human, sometimes even more than a real human?Duck Light is the story of Lulu and Rosie: two ducks in love. And, quite frankly, they are bored with life as ducks. The pair are recently engaged and live their lives...

Dog and Cat probably are friends, but they’ll never admit it in public. Living in the same house, they have similar interests, such as bodgering in the garage or gardening when the weather is fine. They could watch it for hours, offering critical advice...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

In "Life In Stitches," discover the enthralling journey of Bonita Smith, a determined young woman who dares to chase her dreams in the fierce world of New York City's fashion industry. Her story is one of ambition, betrayal, and redemption as she...

The uncommon life of train commuters unveils itself in these twenty stories about Phil, Angie, Tony, Clyde, Paula, and others who hope they don't sleep past their stop again. Filled with drama, comedy, and adventure, these stories show people connecting...

Tales, Tails and more Tales is a witty collection of short story gems. The author delivers funny "slice of life" stories with occasional dark humor that range from introspective to irreverent. A fun read.

It's scams, frauds and misguided mayhem again with Nic Thorn and his associates. Could there be something fishy at a new restaurant at Melbourne's New Crowd Casino? Something eerie up in Rockhampton, North Queensland and as Sandy's ID had been stolen,...

"I have what is called locked-in syndrome. Yes ... Read that again ... Locked. In. Syndrome. The trouble is that I'm the only person to have figured this out."Meet Dave. Dave is an eighteen-year-old blind, quadriplegic victim of...

'Excellent... this is a worthy page-turner' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBreeda Looney tells herself she's happy with her life in a remote Irish fishing village.Sure, there are days she talks to no one but the cat, her panic attacks have become public spectacles,...

Bang, bang!They shot us down.Bang, bang! We ran through town.Bang, bang!Now here I am …Bang, bang… in an undercover police sting. Miranda Sikes is a twenty-year-old university student who hates venturing into the city, but her...

When Christ appears on an Adelaide beach in the middle of a long hot winter, Pete's as surprised as anyone. Moments later they're having a fistfight ...It's the Second Coming - faked by a political party to boost polls - and if there's one thing Pete...

Can a chicken fall in love? This one does. He and the barnyard's martially-inclined duck live life on their own terms. The antics of these barnyard fowl and their irreverent observations about life and love will leave you laughing!A NEW...

In a Shot of Malaria, Charles Souby unfolds the twisted story of a young man, Daniel Martin, desperately hooked on heroin, alcohol and his own delusions. Set in San Francisco in the nineties and written as a deadpan, first-person narrative, the novel...