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Dealing with incompetent bureaucrats, a power-hungry parent, and a scheming superintendent aren't the only hurdles facing second-year principal Steve Hepting. Fortunately, he has steadfast allies, including the academically-challenged school custodian, a...

The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life's story.Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a "far more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“I think we got off on the wrong foot, with you telling me I had to be killed and then me getting all upset about it. Let’s start again. My name is Jameela, and I’m a writer. What do you do, besides . . . assassinations Is that a hobby or more of a...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES on Drama and UKTV Play ‘I was hooked from the first page, wonderful’ Reader review, ‘Brilliant, brilliant book … this was one of the best books I’ve read in a long time’ Reader review, ‘Entertaining, engaging and thoroughly...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at...

A new collection of hilarious stories from Richard's much-loved ABC radio show, THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY, in the style of his previous collections, IN BED WITH JOCASTA and DESPERATE HUSBANDS. 'Full-on, uncontrollable, laugh-till-you-weep stories. Glover...

Told with the perfect mix of humour and tragedy, this is a tale for all families who have ever questioned how well a relative can really ever know another. It is customary to bring gifts to a wedding. But as daughter Luna prepares to marry her dream...

An amusing, often outrageous, collection of the best columns Robert G.Barrett wrote for People magazine, focusing on Australian life and its heroes and villains.together these columns represent an often funny, always entertaining and uniquely telling...

'Full-on, uncontrollable, laugh-till-you-weep stories. Glover has become the indispensable chronicler of Australian family life' Geraldine Brooks Richard Glover's deeply skewed stories of everyday life are heard each week on ABC radio's 'thank God It's...

From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist SO MUCH FOR THAT comes a part parable, part adventure story about a group of foreign correspondents reporting from a nonexistent peninsula of Portugal in the mid-1990s. Edgar Kellogg , a...

Grotesque, deconstructive, and absolutely genius, Vladimir Sorokin's short story collection Dispatches from the District Committee is a revelatory, offbeat portrait of Soviet life beyond the propaganda and state-sponsored realism.Celebrated - and...

Your favourite anti-heroine, Kitty Collins, is back! Expect more wit, sass, and, of course, murder… 'I was rooting for Kitty even as she killed more men (oops!). Funny and twisty in the best of ways' Tasha...

Chef Charlie Hunter finds backstabbing among the online celebrities living in her little Chilterns village turning to murder, in the third of the Old Forge Café Mystery series. Chef Charlie Hunter is just trying for mindfulness and a work/life balance,...

A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2018‘The real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing’ MAX PORTER'She has arrived in a class of her own' SARAH PERRY'Funny, playful and utterly bravura' MELISSA HARRISON The...

The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.‘Riotously funny’ New York Times‘Just as loopy and clever as his movies’...

The second Scott Pilgrim volume! Scott Pilgrim has two girls on the go. When he’s with Knives Chau, he feels like he can erase his past and start over. When he’s with Ramona Flowers, he’s ready to accept all that, grow up and move on. But like all adult...

Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's "between jobs," and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading...

Celebrating 25 years of Les Norton and Robert Barrett! CELEBRAtING 25 YEARS OF LES NORtON! this book was first published in 1996 under the title RIDER ON tHE StORM AND OtHER BItS AND BARREtt. It was a one-off book that got under the radar and a lot of...