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What a carve up! What a carve up! Jonathan Coe A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision of Britain, a family history and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a… OL11346168W
Through the arc of the rain forest Through the arc of the rain forest Karen Tei Yamashita xv, 185 pages ; 23 cm OL13549691W
The Christmas Pig The Christmas Pig Kinky Friedman "King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind. Every Christmas, he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. This year, though, the date i… OL14924310W
Super sad true love story Super sad true love story Gary Shteyngart,Adam Grupper,Ali Ahn From the New York Times [review][1] written by Michiko Kakutani, June 2010: *"Gary Shteyngart’s wonderful new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performanc… OL15326463W
The meowmorphosis The meowmorphosis Coleridge Cook Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a cat. OL16322128W
Lionel Asbo Lionel Asbo Martin Amis Young Desmond Pepperdine desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love. Unfortunately for him, he is the ward of his uncle, Lionel Asbo (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social … OL16547669W
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Marc Rubió Rodon,Ben Fountain A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad thr… OL16664755W
Frühling der Barbaren Frühling der Barbaren Jonas Lüscher Als Zwitserse man in een oase in Tunesië is, waar een grote bruiloft van een jong Engels stel plaatsvindt, gaat de Engelse staat failliet. OL16808341W
The unusual life of Tristan Smith The unusual life of Tristan Smith Peter Carey A satire on Australia and its relationship to the U.S. The protagonist is actor Tristan Smith, a dwarf. He is a citizen of Effica, a small country whose theater is overshadowed by Voorstand, a big co… OL1707631W
Numero zero Numero zero Umberto Eco "A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."-- 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il D… OL17140057W
A Great Big Shining Star A Great Big Shining Star Niall Griffiths Written with a raging, lyrical fury, this is a devastating satire on a society fixated on image and celebrity - how innocence and individuality are routinely sacrificed for the totems of sex and weal… OL17381662W
The Heart Goes Last The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood "Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs.… OL17569713W
The Guts The Guts Roddy Doyle "The man who invented the Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 kids...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still… OL17868899W
Thank you, goodnight Thank you, goodnight Andy Abramowitz "Nick Hornby meets Almost Famous in this side-splittingly funny coming-of-middle-age debut novel about the lead singer of a one-hit wonder 90s band who tries for one more swing at the fences"-- OL17883807W
The only words that are worth remembering The only words that are worth remembering Jeffrey Rotter "A darkly comic, wildly original novel of a family in flight from the law, set in a near-future American dystopia, a tender-hearted A Clockwork Orange. In an America of the semi-distant future, human… OL17889012W
In office hours In office hours Lucy Kellaway A masterclass in office love ... Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for Atlantic Energy, a global oil company in London. Bella is a pretty single mother who dropped out of college and is doomed… OL17909706W
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse Notes from the Internet Apocalypse Wayne Gladstone "When the Internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data, instant messages, and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets, talking to themselves in 140 charact… OL19707536W
My sister, the serial killer My sister, the serial killer Oyinkan Braithwaite "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you k… OL19761909W
Quicksand Quicksand Steve Toltz Liam, a policeman and aspiring author, looks for inspiration to his best friend, Aldo, a hapless criminal with a knack for misfortunes who is trying to win back his ex-wife. OL20008060W
The assistants The assistants Camille Perri When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on … OL20027041W
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