JOHN NIVEN

An instant Sunday Times bestseller O Brother is by turns heart breaking and hilarious evoking a working class childhood of the 1970 80s and trying to answer the questions that often haunt the surv

Lees done some bad things - but murder?When Gary gets smashed on the head by a golf ball and miraculously develops an absolutely perfect swing, everyone finds their fates rest on the final day of the

You thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky.

Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he's ever wanted to do in his life, he instead has at the ready his 'fuck-it list'. Because Frank has had to endure more than his fair share of personal misfortune, not to mention having to live through two terms of a Trump Presidency. Armed with the names of all those who are to blame for the tragedies that have befallen him, it's time for revenge.

A scabrous, darkly humorous satire of the music industry in the 1990s, featuring Steven Stelfox, a compelling sociopath to join the ranks of Patrick Bateman ("American Psycho") and Bruce Robertson, ("Filth"). 'Brilliant. It made me ill with laughter. The filthiest, blackest, most shocking, most hilarious debut novel I've read in years' India Knight.

Only two things would improve Gary Irvine's life - children and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely: Gary's wife Pauline is planning to leave him for a self-made carpet millionaire, and unfortunately Gary is an appalling golfer. Meanwhile, in the murky depths of the criminal underclass, Gary's luckless brother Lee has botched up too many drug deals, and local crime overlord Ranta Campbell understands the PR value of a certain kind of violence to keep people in line. He gives Lee one more job, one last chance to get it right...Then Gary gets smashed on the head by a golf ball and knocked into a coma. He wakes to find that the neurological trauma he's suffered has resulted in some pretty radical side effects - among them an absolutely perfect golf swing. Their stories converge as the two brothers stumble into uncharted territory - Lee towards murder and Gary teeing it up in the Open Championship...

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. They live in a small Dorset town and have been friends since school. On the surface Susan has it all a lovely house and a long marriage to accountant Barry. Life has not been so kind to Julie, but now, with several failed businesses and bad marriages behind her, she has found stability: living in a council flat and working in an old peoples home.

London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.

A memoir that is by turns heart breaking and hilarious O Brother evokes a working class childhood of the 1970s and 80s and tries to answer the questions of guilt culpability and regret that often h

Nuestro librero Txell Simón (Librería de Barcelona Passeig de Gràcia) recomienda La de Dios es Cristo: "Una narración mordaz, satírica, directa y con altísimas dosis de humor. Un reflejo también de l

Helen Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. They live in a small Dorset town and have been friends since school. On the surface Helen has it all - a lovely house and a long marriage to accountant Barry. Life has not been so kind to Julie, but now, with several failed businesses and bad marriages behind her, she has found stability: living in a council flat and working in an old people's home. Then Helen's world is ripped apart when Barry is found dead in a secret flat - or rather, a porn dungeon. It turns out Barry has been leading a fantastical double life as a swinger. He's run up a fortune in debts. The bank is going to take Helen's house and she'll lose everything she's never worked for. Until, under the influence of an octogenarian gangster named Nails, the women decide that, rather than let the bank take the house, they're going to take the bank. With the help of several thrill-crazy, wheelchair-bound friends they pull off the daring robbery, but soon find that getting away with it is not so easy. Setting off across Europe, the team pick up a teenage hitchhiker, get entangled with Interpol and the Russian Mafia, and discover that, far from winding down, their lives are only just beginning. Reservoir OAPs is a sharp satire on friendship, ageing, the English middle-classes, the housing bubble and group sex: Thelma and Louise meets the Lavender Hill Mob, written and directed by Tarantino.

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet.He''s writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside.As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he''s forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this ''preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath''. Or is there.Straight White Male is a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britain''s sharpest writers.

***Now available for preorder: KILL EM ALL, the stunning sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS***The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friends and Straight White Male.What do you do when a homeless man knows your name?How about when he turns out to be a friend you havenat seen in twenty years?Do you treat him to a hot meal and see him on his way?Give him a wad of middle-class guilt money?Or take him in and get him back on his feet?For Alan, thereas no question a only natural that head want to see his old mate Craig off the streets, even if only for a few nights, and into some clean clothes.But what if the successful life youave made for yourself a good job, happy marriage, lovely kids, grand Victorian house (you did well out of the property boom, thank you very much) a is one that that your old pal would quite like to have too?Even if it means taking it from you?Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends, No Good Deed is a funny and painful examination of friendship, the strange currents of ambition, loathing, pity and affection that flow between people over the decades, and of men getting older a

In a busy maternity ward first time father Dan meets Jada a dad welcoming his fifth no sixth child into the world Dan and Jada come from very different places both called Glasgow Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home Jada is a hustling small time criminal who is already planning how to separate Dan from some of the luxuries Jada has never been able to enjoy in his tiny flat in a Brutalist sixties council block Both men find that the birth of their sons has fired their ambitions Dan plans to walk away from his saccharine TV success and finally knuckle down to writing that novel he always felt he had in him While for Jada it s the opportunity for one last get rich quick scheme ripping off a local airport When a tragedy occurs their worlds are brought closer than either could ever have imagined close enough that it could mean destruction for both of them

***Now available for preorder: KILL EM ALL, the stunning sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS***The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friends and Straight White Male.What do you do when a homeless man knows your name?How about when he turns out to be a friend you havent seen in twenty years?Do you treat him to a hot meal and see him on his way?Give him a wad of middle-class guilt money?Or take him in and get him back on his feet?For Alan, theres no question only natural that hed want to see his old mate Craig off the streets, even if only for a few nights, and into some clean clothes.But what if the successful life youve made for yourself good job, happy marriage, lovely kids, grand Victorian house (you did well out of the property boom, thank you very much) is one that that your old pal would quite like to have too?Even if it means taking it from you?Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends, No Good Deed is a funny and painful examination of friendship, the strange currents of ambition, loathing, pity and affection that flow between people over the decades, and of men getting older as they fail and succeed.