Home > Literature & Fiction > British & Irish > Humor & Satire
Humor & Satire
Stiff upper lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-27 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

14 'Have you seen Fink-Nottle?' he said. I didn't like the way he spoke or the way he was looking. The lips, I noted, were twitching, and the eyes glittered ...
( Category: Humorous June 11,2015 )
Generals by Mark Urban
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Urban [Urban, Mark]

The figure who appeared through Darfur’s shimmering desert heat haze bore little similarity to the colonel commanding at Gravesend. Mounted on a strapping charger, the forty-four-year-old Gordon wore the dark ...
( Category: Humorous June 10,2015 )
The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club by Whitehead Duncan
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Whitehead, Duncan [Whitehead, Duncan]

Chapter 10 Kelly felt different. Maybe it was because everyone thought that she was famous. She had a new air of confidence about her. She began to enjoy the nudges ...
( Category: Animals May 27,2015 )
The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley by Jeremy Massey
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Jeremy Massey

NINETEEN 10:30 a.m. There weren’t many things that annoyed Frank Gallagher, but hearses arriving late for funerals was at the top of the list. At twenty past ten, when Paddy ...
( Category: Crime May 27,2015 )
Don't Try This at Home by Angela Readman
epub |eng, eng | 2015-04-16 | Author:Angela Readman

‌Everywhere You Don’t Want to Be I saw the other me on a rainy morning – at least, I did the first time. The city dripped and surged. Everything smelt ...
( Category: Humorous May 26,2015 )
The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-11-10 | Author:Gideon Defoe

Nine I Ride with the Bandit King! After a game of chess that the Pirate Captain later told the pirates he deliberately let Ahab win because he still felt guilty ...
( Category: Humorous April 5,2015 )
Marrying Off Mother by Gerald Durrell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Jury The river steamer Dolores broke down — as river steamers are wont to do — midway between her point of departure and her destination at Meriada, a small ...
( Category: Fauna April 5,2015 )
The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics by Gideon Defoe
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Gideon Defoe

‘Pretty Romantic stuff, Percy,’ said Byron, downing his coffee and then banging the mug on the table. ‘Thank you, Byron, I like to think so,’ agreed Percy with a theatrical ...
( Category: Sea Stories April 5,2015 )
Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute by Jonathan L. Howard
mobi, epub |rus | 2012-01-27 | Author:Jonathan L. Howard

Chapter 9 IN WHICH A HERMITAGE IS DISCOVERED AND A GREAT TERROR REVEALED The others were on the point of standing in the wrong place and falling through into the ...
( Category: British & Irish April 5,2015 )
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Jasper Fforde

Jack bathed Stevie and put everyone to bed after dinner, telling the kids when they asked that Madeleine “wasn’t feeling well.” He tapped on the bedroom door, but there was ...
( Category: Humorous April 5,2015 )
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Lasdun

CHAPTER 7 The next day I went into the department office at lunch time to get my mail. Amber was there, working the photocopier. She looked at me drowsily. Her ...
( Category: Lawyers & Criminals April 5,2015 )
F for Effort by Richard Benson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Richard Benson

What is the Sound west of the state of Washington? What was the cause of the Industrial Revolution? Name a right guaranteed under the Constitution. What was the Age of ...
( Category: Satire April 4,2015 )
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Jasper Fforde

“… and fought through the spice mines of Kessel…” droned on Uncle Colin. “Dinner, anyone?” said Roger as a timer pinged in the kitchen, and everyone sprinted for the table, ...
( Category: Humorous March 27,2015 )
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-07-25 | Author:Jasper Fforde

MAN RECOGNIZES SUSPECT IN RECONSTRUCTION Mr. James Tuffnel was in custody yesterday, having been recognized when he appeared in a reconstruction during Network Toad’s popular PerpCatch UK program. He was ...
( Category: Humorous March 27,2015 )
The fourth bear: a nursery crime by Jasper Fforde
epub | | 2010-10-15 | Author:Jasper Fforde [Fforde, Jasper]

“… and fought through the spice mines of Kessel…” droned on Uncle Colin. “Dinner, anyone?” said Roger as a timer pinged in the kitchen, and everyone sprinted for the table, ...
( Category: Humorous March 27,2015 )

First Prev [5] [6] [7] [8] 9 [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] Next Last