Titres dans Humour noir

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. This audiobook edition is read by stage and screen actor Alex...

Even the worst person has a best friend. A chilling black comedy, The First Friend imagines a gangster mob in charge of a global superpower. The Soviet Union 1938: Lavrentiy Beria, 'The Boss' of the Georgian republic, nervously prepares a Black Sea resort for a visit from 'The Boss of Bosses'...

Who is Malinda Albert Kabalana? How did he die?Renegade war photographer Maali Almeida has to solve his own murder. Does that sound fun? It would be if there wasn’t so much bloody red-tape to get through. Oh and it’s not as though anyone alive actually seems to miss him, and it certainly...

The Marlow Murder Club meets again … It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks—AKA the Marlow Murder Club—since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey. Sir Peter is having a...

From the author of Sex and the City comes a satiric story about fame, love, and foolishness that will keep readers enthralled till the very last scene. Pandy "PJ" Wallis is a renowned writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films...

From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Good Housekeeping, UK) about a lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder with a house full of secrets that “will appeal to fans of Tana French and Sophie Hannah, as it charms and unsettles in equal...

Perfect for fans of Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, and David Foster Wallace, this fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends—one a failed-writer-turned-reluctant-cop, the other an unlucky criminal—is “a delightful literary novel” (Psychology Today) from...

A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down. Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his...

In a world of spycraft, betrayals, and reversals, a Stasi officer is unraveled by the cruel system he served and by the revelation of a decades-old secret, in this “story that John le Carré might have written for The Twilight Zone” (Washington Post). A BuzzFeed Best Book of 2020 On November...

Maddie died. Piper refused to accept it. One blood ritual later and Maddie is back—undead, starving and nothing close to resembling human. Despite her deceased girlfriend reeking of rotting flesh, Piper decides she’ll do anything to keep her zombie girlfriend: lie to suspicious neighbors, outwit a nosy cop, and make sure the apartment complex’s missing-person flyers don’t point to their kitchen. As scraps of the old Maddie surface, so do the hunger pangs. The body count begins to pile up, and Piper has to decide what she's willing to do to keep her girlfriend fed.

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was an English novelist who was a bestseller in the mid-20th century. She published eighteen highly acclaimed works of fiction in her lifetime, inspired by her own tragic experiences of family life. Her works consist mainly of dialogue and focus on family life among the late Victorian or Edwardian upper middle class. They deal with money, power, status, incest, adultery, murder, homosexuality – about which she was years ahead of her time – and all the passions and stresses of family life, described with brilliant wit and perception.

Brought to you by Penguin. Years after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself back on the Lower East Side attending a dinner party hosted by Eugene and Nicole – an artist-curator couple – and attended by their...

"One of my favorite writers in the world." —George Saunders From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Enter Lynette: actor, writer, director, showrunner and star of the final film in her head—is it a comedy, a...

From Booker-shortlisted author Steve Toltz, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself “The cure for loneliness causes loneliness. That’s the human condition.” In a reeling world of fraudsters and hypnotists, sleep talkers and estranged twins, false alibis and second...

A precisely observed black comedy of manners, Nature and Fortune is a twenty-first-century Cinderella story, awash in new money and bad choices. December 2012, New York City: Becca, a sculptor, is by her own admission not excelling when she meets Sean, an asset manager who is. It’s love, or at...

One of the last great magazines still standing. A coveted opening for editor in chief. Three ambitious candidates. In a thriller sure to make headlines from Marisa Kashino, bestselling author of Best Offer Wins, it’s anyone’s guess who will triumph in the race for the top job—if they...

This is the story of Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor, who becomes mired in a surrealistic web of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. He develops an obsession with an enigmatic poem which leads him to perceive a silent, invisible...

Tedd hat gerade das Ende der Welt überlebt. Langsam wünschte er sich, er hätte es nicht … Der Manager ist auf dem Weg nach Norden. Was auch immer er dort oben baut, er sorgt verdammt gut dafür, dass niemand lange genug lebt, um es herauszufinden. Tedd hat einen radioaktiven Spinnenbot, eine Handvoll Überlebende und absolut kein Recht, irgendjemandes letzte Hoffnung zu sein. Aber er ist alles, was sie haben. Das Ende der Welt war erst der Anfang.

Dark, transgressive, and deeply unsettling, Woom is a disturbing splatterpunk horror story set at the Lonely Motel, where Angel enters the infamous Room 6 and uncovers a grotesque history of death, trauma, and transgressive secrets. "I believe pain lingers," Angel said. "Do I believe in spirits?...

From the transgressive horror world of viral sensation Woom comes a brutal splatterpunk horror novel set at a horror convention, where authors, critics, and fans collide in a bloody weekend of revenge, obsession, extreme horror, and a notorious Gross Out contest. Revenge is on the program at...