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  The Gun Seller

  by Hugh Laurie

  Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy. Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to... (more)
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  The Liar

  by Stephen Fry

  Fry's hilarious novel has won praise from critics everywhere, and it hit the very top of bestseller lists in England. Its bisexual hero is a diabolically brilliant pathological liar with the wit of a Truman Capote and the moral compunctions of an amoeba.An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist. The Liar is his first novel;... (more)
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  Three Men: Book 1

  Three Men in a Boat

  (to Say Nothing of the Dog)

  by Jerome K. Jerome

  The famous story of three men and a dog setting off in an open boat on a hilarious voyage up the Thames. The story is full of mishaps - falling into the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze - but also offers comments on the world. This excursion was undertaken at the end of the last century and comments on the times have acquired a deeper fascination.
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  The Hippopotamus

  by Stephen Fry

  In his clever second novel, the author of The Liar introduces readers to Ted Wallace: failed poet, failed theater critic, failed father and husband, shameless womanizer, and self-confessed alcoholic. When Ted invites himself to the country estate of his beautiful and mysterious godson under the pretense of writing a family history, the result is "a deliciously wicked and amusing little fable" (New York Times).
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  Blandings

  Summer Lightning

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  Also published as Fish Preferred.The fall brings season brings three more antic selections from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Summer Lightning , the Honorable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and everyone dives for cover; meanwhile, Lord Emsworth's prize pig has been stolen, and the castle is abuzz with imposters all pretending to be one another.
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  Three Men: Book 2

  Three Men on the Bummel

  by Jerome K. Jerome

  When three late-Victorian gentlemen escape from their claustrophobic suburban life to go on a cycling tour in the Black Forest of Germany, their trip turns into a comic expedition. Many of their humorous adventures and mishaps relate to the nuances in language and customs; one attempts to board a train unconventionally to avoid German procedures; when riding the Bummel in Dresden one butts and rolls into German... (more)
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  A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

  by Julian Barnes

  This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!
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  Great Apes

  by Will Self

  In this new novel, Will Self turns his wicked gift for satire on a favorite victim--his fellow man. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, a successful, middle-aged London painter wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee.
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  Nice Work

  by David Lodge

  Centered in Rummidge, a sprawling industrial town in the English midlands, Nice Work confirms Lodge's rare capacity to be thought-provoking, moving, and very funny. "A singularly brilliant and invigorating performance."--Chicago Tribune.
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  The History Man

  by Malcolm Bradbury

  Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university. Timid Vice-Chancellors pale before his threats of disruption. Reactionary colleagues are crushed beneath his merciless Marxist logic. Woman are drawn by his promiscuity. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top.
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  Therapy

  by David Lodge

  The author of "Small World" offers a funny, compassionate portrayal of a balding, chubby television writer whose creeping restlessness leads to an obsession with existentialism, brushes with the police, and strange bedfellows.
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  Pigs Have Wings

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  Lord Emsworth's quick-witted brother must stop the portly Sir Gregory Parsloe's plan to slim down Emsworth's prize porker with a new miracle weight-loss drug.
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  Talking It Over

  by Julian Barnes

  In this powerfully affecting Flaubert's Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. "An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit. . . . It's moving, it's funny, it's frightening . . . fiction at its best."--New York Times Book Review.
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  Jeeves and Wooster: Book 8

  Joy in the Morning

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  Also published as Jeeves in the Morning.Trapped in the rural hell-hole of the Steeple Bumpleigh with his bossy ex-fiancee, Florence Craye, her fire-breathing father, Lord Worplesdon, her frightful Boy-Scout brother, Edwin, and her beefy new betrothed, 'Stilton' Cheesewright, Bertie Wooster finds himself walking a diplomatic tightrope. With Florence threatening to ditch Stilton for Bertie, and Stilton... (more)
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  An Autobiography: Book 1

  Moab Is My Washpot

  by Stephen Fry

  A number one bestseller in Britain that topped the lists there for months, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde, which earned him a... (more)
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  Bodkin

  The Luck of the Bodkins

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  To the majority of the passengers aboard the RMS Atlantic the voyage to America was just a pleasant interlude in life’s hectic rush. But not so to Monty Bodkin. Monty’s wooing of Gertrude Butterwick was not progressing as it should, and the cause of all the trouble was Miss Lotus Blossom, the brightest star in Hollywood’s firmament. But Lotus and Monty were not the only ones on board to wear the furrowed brow!
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  Bodkin: Book 3

  Bachelors Anonymous

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  Much married, much divorced movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn (friend of Monty Bodkin), and his long-suffering lawyer Ephraim Trout, find the idea of a support group for bachelors appealing. The members can watch each other's backs, keeping them safe from roving females. With spring in the air, however, romance is never far behind... One Mr. Ephraim Trout of Trout, Wapshott and Edelstein, one of the many legal... (more)
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  Jeeves and Wooster: Book 7

  The Code of the Woosters

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  A colourful array of characters including Gussie Fink-Nottle, the soupy Madeleine Bassett, and the Rev. H.P. ('Stinker') Pinker, add an 18th century cow-creamer, a small notebook and mix with Aunt Dahlia. It all spells trouble for Bertie and Jeeves.
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  Three Men in a Boat / Three Men on the Bummel

  by Jerome K. Jerome

  Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. "Three Men in a Boat" was an... (more)
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  Beasts in My Belfry

  by Nigel Davenport, Gerald Durrell