Humorous fiction Books

Start the EarthCent Ambassador series with the three book bundle, Union Station 1, 2, 3.Kelly returns from sabbatical and finally has the opportunity to expand her embassy with a conference room, providing she can find a contractor willing to take the...

Can humanity remain an independent species or are we ripe for a takeover?Kelly heads to Earth for the first ever Conference of EarthCent Ambassadors in Manhattan, but while the cat's away, the mice will play. The cat has its own problems, as some of the...

The Memoir of the Minotaur is the posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently-deceased, 21st century fellow souls in Hades’ domain. This book is a satire for readers unafraid of a...

The mainstream humor debut of Edie Claire, author of the USA-Today bestselling Leigh Koslow mystery series!A professional woman's mind is a terrible thing to waste.With two kids, a mortgage, and a husband who's about to lose his job, the last thing Karen...

Even crafty ex-marshals need help in 2105.Agent Mina Kane discovers that her pal, ex-marshal Norm Webb, is missing. It's unusual for a highly trained agent to disappear into thin air, but that's exactly what he does. Mina tracks down an old case, a...

Norman was born to write, but doesn't know his destiny is written in his DNA, inherited from generations of earlier Normans who yearned to put pen to paper - once those items had been invented! Yet with nothing to show for all his literary endeavours and...

Uh oh. Carrie Hatchett’s back in town.When she returned from her most recent assignment as a Transgalactic Intercultural Community Crisis Liaison Officer, a weird wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey effect had taken place.The good news: Carrie now owns the...

Un jeune cadre en entreprise doit conduire un projet sous la direction d'un vieux briscard. Peu à peu, « l’Ancien » initie son jeunot à l'art de la survie en milieu bureaucratique... et le récit vaut le...

Blonde haired, blue eyed, Abigail Watson, was a shining example of rural youth life. University was over, after a year away it was time to come home for the summer, and suddenly that was a problem. Abigail had changed. In the perfect picturesque...

'In the time it took me to ski from the crevasse to thefoot of the mountain, I convinced myself that whathappened wasn't my responsibility.'Duncan Wilde - extreme skiing enthusiastAfter an accident on a Swiss mountain, Duncan Wilde's life changes for...

"If every tale told in a tavern is a tall story, then what happens when the entire universe becomes a tavern? It means that every story ever told is tall and therefore untrue, and this includes the true tales. They are all lies. But a lie is a concept...

'He opened the cupboard and stared in disbelief at the emptiness within. There wasn't any coffee left...' So begins this marvellous foray into a wondrous London-based coffee adventure combining literature, fantasy, history and art into a...

Derek has not had much success getting his first great novel started - in fact, the research it requires has nearly cost him his marriage and ruined several pairs of his wife's tights. All he needs is a better topic, maybe he should be writing...

By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they were all thrust into it. Fred Urquhart's second collection of short stories reflects this. The young men are often reluctant to sign up for the Forces: the...

Titus Llewellyn-Gwlynne, actor/manager of the Red Lion Theatre, has lost a backer who was going to fund a theatrical tour - when unexpected salvation appears.Their home theatre in the East End of London having been bombed during the war, The Red Lion...

‘One of the funniest, most down-to-earth books I have ever read… I devoured it.’ Leah Reads BooksWhen Hattie Green pops to the shop one afternoon, she never expects her life to flash before her eyes between the tins of...

A heartwarming story of friendship and new beginnings set in the sleepy village of Padcock.What if your happy ending has been within your grasp all along?Matilda Matthews has big dreams. But after being dumped via text and watching her rival get their...

A bold act of piracy has shaken the highest halls of power, and the star sailing ship HMSS Daring is running at full sheet on a new mission ordered by His Imperial Majesty. Commander Lord Liam Blackwood and Petty Officer Amelia Virtue have seen their...

When Loretta Walch finds herself single again, she takes her plus-sized dysfunction on a laugh-out-loud road trip towards karma. It's true the ink hasn't dried on the restraining order that taunts her in Chicago, but that doesn't stop her from making a...

Ted Barker has been running Barker's Taxidermy Emporium (We stuff things so you can stare at their dead eyes forever!) for decades. Business is booming, thanks to the busy London roads and the stupidity of cats, but when Don Paparella, a local gangster,...

Have you ever been deceived? Fooled by a stranger, or a loved one? Award-winning Rosemary Mairs delves into the motives, daring and cunning, of deceivers. Examines the myriad ways to be duped - financially, romantically . . . fatally.In the title story a...

All your favorite characters are jammed-packed in this 12th installment of Family Messings: Getting Dirty with the Goodbye Family by Lorin Morgan-Richards. As the vampire bat flu dissipates thanks to Rusty Potts immunity rich saliva, Sheriff Orphie can...

A collection of humorous short stories by the man "whose writing is to literature what Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' is to cartoons. Here is an eclectic collection of cerebral slapstick; a book that's not afraid to ask the question: do real men read...

The second issue of the Sci-Fi Lampoon featuring humorous work from Y.J. Jun, Romana Guillotte, Jim Webster, Christopher Hinkle, Jeff Gard, Geoff Habiger, Margret A. Treiber, Ralph Benton, Candice R. Lisle, J.P. Roquard, James Rumpel, Bill McCormick,...

 Welcome to D.D.A, the agency of dogs. Here dogs from all over the world, in all shapes and sizes, form an agency and make sure that their race never goes extinct. Disaster strikes when one day the cats keep terrorizing the dogs of the other D.D.A...

This is a coming of age tale.It’s a fantastical adventure for an amoral ne’er-do-well called Sean Reilly. He’s such a grounded individual that he could never say that about himself. And it’s not that fantastical. In fact...

Wholesome but gullible weekend market goers from the city face chaos and trauma at the organic strawberry u-pick farm. A student illegally backpacks through Cuba, attends a Santería party, and wakes up with a horrible, mysterious illness and...

Welcome to the Palace movie theater! Now Showing: Philandering husbands, ghostly sidekicks, and a murder or two.When Nora Paige’s movie-star husband leaves her for his latest co-star, she flees Hollywood to take refuge in San Francisco at the...

"Plot twists, romance, hope, and despair all come together in this gut-wrenching, tear-jerking, hope-raising tale of romance and mystery. This book is a wonderful addition to any romance or mystery collection as well as for those interested in...

A frazzled suburban mom's life is upended when she is pushed too far by the ruthlessness of modern motherhood and goes on a do-or-die road trip to Las Vegas with her therapist.

New York City bachelor David Melman is a successful brander of celebrity fragrances. Laurel Sorenson, a leggy blond, is a screenwriter on the brink of Hollywood success. When David, pushed by his bossy sister, agrees to take a screenwriting class taught...

Il mio nuovo incarico al lavoro: testare i giocattoli. Sì, intendo proprio i sex toys. Beh, tecnicamente, si tratta di testare l'applicazione che controlla i giocattoli a distanza. Un problema? La showgirl che dovrebbe testare l'hardware (cioè...

Ma nouvelle mission au boulot : tester des jouets. Oui, vous avez deviné, ce genre de jouets... Enfin, techniquement, il s'agit de tester l'application qui contrôle les jouets à distance.Le problème ? La fille qui était censée tester le produit (à...

Meine seit langem verschwundenen leiblichen Eltern finden? Check. Den Mann küssen, auf den ich seit Jahren stehe? Check. Endlich zurücklehnen und mein Happy End genießen? Nein, so viel Glück habe ich dann doch nicht...

Ich bin also eine Seherin. Eine der Cogniti unter dem Mandat. Das Leben sollte jetzt einfach sein, oder? Falsch. Bei all den „Unfällen“, die ich gerade dauernd erlebe, habe ich Glück, wenn ich die Woche...

The rain finally stopped, and Sam and Melissa began enjoying the great streams and hills of the famous Texas Hill Country again. After the last adventure they needed the time to decompress, and they took advantage of it! That is until Sam got the cryptic...

For over 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 genre fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one of the most...

The Dinosaur's Egg is the story of the charming Clayton family of Devonshire who find themselves navigating a change in circumstances. On the fringe of their social circle is Uncle Bliss, young Irene's godfather, an eccentric and often obtuse explorer...

Transplanted from what he considered civilization to the desolation of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, a ten-year-old boy becomes resourceful. What he learns will shape the ways in which he eventually would teach.Rather than stunting development, the...

The latest book in the award-winning Black Knight Chronicles is a raucous ride through the city of Charlotte’s seedy underbelly with the most unlikely crime lord ever.Jimmy Black’s knack for stumbling into the right place at the wrong...

When Jim Wish is forced to retire in February 2017, his wife decides that he is no longer her gravy train and starts divorce proceedings. During the messy divorce, Jim seeks solace online, which leads him to websites based in other countries as he seeks...

It is 1960 when Chris goes to work for Western Electric Company in the Bay Area of Northern California. Happy to be employed by a prosperous company, Chris’s hard work pays off several years later when he is offered a coveted position in teletype...

A genre-bending parody of the evolution of American politics. The Democracy Dramaturgy is told from the perspective of a cynical deadhead named Mo, who, via the wonders of extraterrestrial time-travel, is able to witness firsthand what his nation has...

What should they know of England who only England know? wrote Kipling. Replace England with China, modern day China that is, and get a unique insight from its diverse inhabitants into what life's really like for them in the Middle Kingdom in the 21st...