Книги жанра зарубежный юмор
В этом, третьем дневнике уже известный читателю по первым двум дневникам невероятно обаятельный и забавный кот Эдгар впервые совершит свое первое путешествие. Сам не желая того, Эдгар отправится на самолете в далекий Тайланд, где однажды затеряется в джунглях… Невероятные приключения, новые друзья и враги, тропические леса и дикие звери, буддийские монастыри, и многое многое другое ждет вас в этом…
Несколько жизнерадостных и остроумных жильцов амстердамского дома престарелых организуют клуб СНОНЕМ (“Старые, но не мертвые”), совершают совместные “самоволки” – увеселительные поездки, борются с самоуправством директрисы и всеобщей скукой, поддерживают друг друга, дружат и влюбляются. Автор дневника Хендрик Грун также рассказывает о своем прошлом и размышляет о разных аспектах жизни и смерти. Об…
Роман создан в виде дневниковых записей одного из обитателей дома престарелых. Это тонкое отображение современного общества – столкновение эпох. Роман представляет собой дневник 83-летнего обитателя дома престарелых. Главное развлечение здесь – телевизор и совместные игры, главное соревнование – у кого больше болячек и опухолей, главная интрига – что будет в меню на ужин и кто умрет раньше. А глав…
«Маленькие люди» в большом Нью-Йорке заботятся друг о друге, переживают, встречаются и расстаются. Жизнь чаще всего преподносит им сюрпризы, и все идет не так, как бы они хотели. Каждая новелла неисправимого романтика и самого блестящего рассказчика Америки – это меткий юмор, хлесткие диалоги и непредсказуемая развязка.
A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving.Big Davey Jones is coming home. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. Davey's a local hero – his miracle birth as the seventh son of a seventh son brought fame to this little town and they've been grateful ever since. But Davey's home town has changed much in the inter…
‘A delicious Christmas delight’ – Sunday Times bestseller Katie FfordeThe perfect Christmas romance for fans of Karen Swan.Tilly Hunter has fabulous friends, her dream job as a make-up artist with a prestigious opera company and Felix, her kind and caring husband to be. It looks set to be the most perfect Christmas yet!But when a monumental blunder forces her to work closely with new IT director M…
One of the most endearing features of sport is its perennial humour. Witness this extraordinary collection of Freudian slips, true confessions, double entendres and unintentional puns which demonstrates that sporting foot-in-mouth disease is far more rampant than mad cow disease.Players, coaches, commentators and journalists are all represented as well as some famous names who know little about sp…
This is a book for the sports lover.Some of us spend too much time in the shed listening to sport on the radio and hogging the television. The thing about sports lovers is that we hate so much about it, we shout at the radio and the television; we love sport so much that if any of it makes us cross, it makes us FURIOUS. So this is a book for us, the sports loving angry brigade.So, introducing: Fra…
From the author of 21st Century Dodos comes a festive collection of endangered objects.An irreverent collection of eulogies, tributes and fond farewells to the many Christmas traditions and, well, other festive things that are threatened with extinction.From handwritten cards to coffee cremes, from Yule logs to thruppenny bits in Christmas puddings, from making paper chain decorations to carol sin…
Powerhouse romance editor Keira Madison is known as “Cover Girl” – because she’s come up with the concepts for the covers of the best selling novels in history. But right now, she’s desperate to replace her best selling author.Wannabe author Alex Bauer has given up hope of ever selling his military thriller, so he takes a shot at writing a romance and sends it to super agent Bella Farentino. She’s…
“I’m going to punish you for not wanting me . . .You deserve it for being so god damn desirable, for locking yourself inside my head, tormenting me day and night. You’re going to have to pay for that.”Desire, Inc, make high-end handbags and twenty-nine-year-old Nicole dedicates her life to growing the business. She also owns Close Encounters, an escort business for women and donates the profits to…
’From the rich descriptions to the believable characters and the engaging plot, I was hooked from page one.’ – Laura (Goodreads)There’s no place like home…Enough is enough! The always perfect Laurie Chapman had jumped in her car and raced as fast as she could from London heading to Sunset Bay and (she hopes!) the open arms of her estranged sister…Mia Chapman loves running Dolly’s Diner in the pict…
~Sydney Hack is the single, thirtysomething VP of news for a failing network… and she also has a taste for younger men.She soon realizes a whole lot of over-thirty female viewers do as well, so she sets out to give these women what they want; a chiseled, trophy buck in his twenties sitting on the anchor desk next to a woman…Just.Like.Them.With nothing to lose she does the unthinkable; along with t…
The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do’s is now available in ebook format.Life is still a social minefield in this small Yorkshire town. From the opening of a vegetarian restaurant to the inauguration of the Outer Inner Relief Ring Road, join Ted and Liz as they struggle through another series of excruciatingly funny ‘do’s’ in this se…
*Tongue-in-cheek and totally unhelpful, this little book is the perfect gift for all Benedict Cumberbatch fans*Benedict Cumberbatch. Does the mere sight of his name give you tingles? Do you feel a cheap thrill staring at the dip on his cupid's bow lip as he talks? Do you secretly wish you could plumb the rhythmic depths of his voice or twiddle your finger in his perfectly coiffed hair? If the answ…