**In the vein of Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Hundred Year Old Man,a hugely entertaining satirical tale, at once humorous and profound, about a Romanian beggar living on the streets of Helsinki.A modern-day rewriting of the popular Finish parable "The Year of the Hare" by Arto PaasilinnaVatanescu, a young Romanian construction worker, desires two things: a future for himself and a pair of football boots for his son. S...

A funny, uplifting and life-affirming tale of grumpiness perfect if you loved books like Eleanor Oliphont is Completely Fine,Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry or Ruth Hogan's The Keeper Of Lost ThingsMaybe there's a little grump in all of us . . .The Grump, at eighty years old, is more focused on death than life; building his own coffin and keen to write his will in ink - who can trust technology, after all? - he knows that every...

Doppler has a nice house, a nice wife and a nice job. But Doppler isn't happy.'Wonderfuly subversive, funny and original' Observer.'A darkly comic fable' Independent.When his father dies, Doppler decides to leave everything behind and start a new life in the forest. There, deep amongst the trees, he reconnects with nature, ponders the meaning of life, and bonds with a baby elk called Bongo.Sweet, funny and s...

In this #1 international bestseller, an old man who is young at heart proves that life doesn't stop once you enter a nursing home, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove.Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is elderly. But at age 83 and one quarter, this feisty curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums, exasperated by the indignities of aging, Hendrik has decided to rebel.He begins writing an exposé: secretly re...

Humorous essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author on travel, late-life parenting, and other perils.P. J. O'Rourke, hailed as "one of America's most hilarious writers" by Time, is the author of the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission to what were then some of the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast.In Holidays in Heck

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIn a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sándor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home?This is a novel about survival - both banal and her...

Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary is designed to help learners of all ages build their vocabulary. This easy-to-use, topic-based book is an invaluable resource for students and teachers, and is ideal for use in the classroom and for home study.Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary is a topic-based vocabulary book, covering over 50 topics, from everyday themes such as family, friends, and hobbies, to topics for travel, work, business and study.The words within each...

After stealing one of his own forgeries from the Marquis of Gotham, Lovejoy is on the run. With a bounty hunter on his trail, he decides to flee the country and soon finds himself stealing away in the luxurious cruise ship Melissa - not as a stowaway but as a legitimate passenger. It's a stroke of luck, but Lovejoy soon discovers that his escape from the mainland has been masterminded by a group of criminals. Exactly what they want him to do, however, remains a mystery. As the ship moves i...

'Children between the ages of twelve and 25 find parents embarrassing 95 per cent of the time. Any younger and they're so uncritical they think you look good in swimmers. Any older and they drop in just long enough to leave their laundry and borrow 50. If you want to embarrass your kids you have to strike when they're teenagers.'For 30 years, Pat McDermott's much-loved 'Family Matters' saga has unfolded on the last page of The Australian Women's Weekly. Her hilarious obser...

A hilarious field guide to the world’s most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.Thanks to television documentaries by Bruce Parry and David Attenborough, we are better acquainted with the hunting rituals of the San bushmen and the mating habits of Papua New Guinean tribes than we are with the everyday lives of that most peculiar of species – the English.Matt Rudd has been getting to know this curious breed, and now you’ll be able to spot the English in any number ...

Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2018Two time winner of Norway's Best Crime NovelA FROZEN BODYA MURDERED BIKERA RADICAL LAWYER WITH A MURKY PASTA FROZEN BODY... A MURDERED BIKER... A RADICAL LAWYER WITH A MURKY PASTIn the depths of the Norwegian winter, the corpse of a woman is discovered in the garden of a notorious left-wing lawyer, Vilhelm Thygesen. She has been st...

Do you . . .Carry emergency teabags in your backpack?Quietly tut at badly formed 'queues'?Cleverly avoid blisters by wearing socks with your sandals?. . . then you may be suffering from (more) VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS.In this sequel to the original and quite-funny-if-you-like-that-sort-of-thing Very British Problems book, Rob Temple is taking us out of our comfort zone. W...