Titres dans Humour noir

After screwing up a recent hit, I’m broke, blacklisted, and no closer to finding my missing sister. I need a distraction. Five days in Alaska isn’t my idea of a retreat. I hate winter, but I hate Catarina Novak more. If I make her as miserable as possible, maybe I can forget how miserable I am. Frustrating Cat is my favorite pastime, but what happens when I discover something I enjoy more?

Alors qu’un typhon menace la baie de Hong Kong, la brigade policière de Jackie Thran encercle la cave à vin la plus sécurisée du monde, installée dans d’anciens bunkers de l’armée britannique. Un trio de braqueuses, aux agissements excentriques, s’y est infiltré et retient en otage l’impressionnant stock de M. Coetzer, estimé à trois cent cinquante millions de dollars…Revisitant avec brio les codes du film de braquage, Céline Minard signe un roman drôle et explosif, où la subversion se mêle à l’ivresse.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "None of this is real and all of it is true." —Jim Carrey Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege—but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even ... getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BIG ISSUE, IRISH INDEPENDENT, I, THE ATLANTIC, PARIS REVIEW and LITERARY HUB 'A true...

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the...

Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her. New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle she...

Every wedding guest's worst nightmare is on repeat in this monstrous, gripping, heartfelt time loop horror story about love, loss, and moving on from the New York Times bestselling author of Cackle and Play Nice. Will this nightmare ever end? It's the picture-perfect wedding weekend—the venue...

Björn has been given an ultimatum: repair his work-life balance, or his wife Katharina will leave him - and take their daughter. He reluctantly starts a mindfulness class and to his surprise, it's a revelation. He becomes calmer, more focused, and he's starting to understand what's really important in life. So when his client and brutal crime boss Dragan Sergowicz tries to interfere with his precious family time, Björn remembers his new-found goal to find serenity - and kills him.

Gathered together for the first time and featuring two brand new stories, this collection contains all of the short stories and novellas featuring Bunny McGarry, star of the million-selling Dublin Trilogy. Spanning his entire career in law enforcement and beyond, these stories give a whole new perspective on Ireland’s most truly unconventional police officer as he juggles being a force for justice and managing the world’s worst under-12s hurling team.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the award-winning author of The Raptures and The Fire Starters, a magically surreal novel about history, identity and redemption It’s summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat...

In una Blackpool stancamente turistica, teatro di scorribande criminali, i detective Declan Miller e Sara Xiu, costretti a lavorare insieme, imparano a conoscersi mentre si trovano a risolvere un caso bizzarro. Due ladri sono entrati in rotta di collisione con il temibile Wayne Cutler, ritrovandosi in possesso di una valigetta che contiene le mani mozzate di un rivale troppo intraprendente. Cutler ha commissionato l’omicidio a un killer che adesso è sulle tracce di uno dei due ladri, il quale pensa bene di consegnare la valigetta a Miller.

The cocaine export business has a new player, Hector de Oliveira—a highborn Brazilian aristocrat with an eye for new markets. When profits fall in Latin America, de Oliveira eyes a new frontier. In Australia, advertising mogul Frank Quinlivan has built a successful business empire, a beautiful life, a young wife, and a yacht. Being a player in the world of high-stakes business is challenging enough—until… A missing shipment sends Oliveira’s flawless drug smuggling operation off Sydney’s coast into chaos. Enter Quinlivan.

Book #1 in the Wilt series. The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue. Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else.

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE i PAPER, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND RED SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS YOU WILL READ ALL YEAR' ELIZABETH DAY 'BRILLIANT. WHAT A WRITER' NIGELLA LAWSON 'INCREDIBLY FUNNY' CAITLIN...

A RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER 72 HOURS TO FIND HER… ‘Hits the sweet spot between literary and crime fiction – Gripping’ ERIN KELLY ‘For those who love their crime fiction rich in psychology, beautifully written and laced with dark humour. Dive in’ LUCIE WHITEHOUSE A MISSING GIRL Edith...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bad by Chloe Esposito, read by Emily Atack. She stole the life she wanted. Now someone wants to steal it back . . . Alvie Knightly may be waking up in the Ritz, but her life is no bed of roses. Firstly, she has the mother of all hangovers. Secondly, her...

Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, that wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and that ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration.

Vierfachmord und andere Köstlichkeiten - ein Krimi aus der bayerischen Provinz: Wer kennt sie nicht, die verschrobene Verwandtschaft? Angerührt aus skurrilen Dorfcharakteren und einem Vierfachmord bereitet Autorin Rita Falk aus diesen Zutaten Ihren berühmten humoristischen Krimi "Winterkartoffelknödel" zu.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From a dazzling new international voice, an audacious, darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat "A wry work of spectacular wit...

One of the 21st century's most celebrated authors, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in her phenomenally successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third novel in the series, 2020's The Mirror and the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. This collection includes three of her best works of contemporary fiction, ranging from the Gothic to the blackly comic.