Humour and satire

Stanley Johnson’s Kompromat is a brilliant satirical thriller that tells the story of 2016’s seismic and unexpected political events on both sides of the ...

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The Tale of Troika. The story. The original author's version ("Smenov's edition").

The famous "Tale of Troika", which has...

It’s all-out war for ruthless red state special operator Kelly Turnbull when he returns in this blockbuster prequel to “People’s Republic,” Kurt Schlichte...

The rolling strip across the bottom of the screen shouts the news:BESTSELLING NOVELIST JOHN HOUSTON’S WIFE FOUND MURDERED AT THEIR LUXURY APARTMENT IN MON...

“A philosopher is someone who thinks for everyone else?” – the schoolboy asked the philosopher Yakov. “Not really,” Yakov answered. “A philosopher is someone...

A satirical novel written in exile by the Russian artist Yuri Annenkov and published in Berlin in 1934 under the pseudonym Boris Temiryazev. The book tells a...

Five Point Someone: What not to do at IIT!is a 2004 novel written by Chetan Bhagat, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Indian Institu...

The literary debut of the German journalist Timur Vermes overnight became a bestseller in Europe and shocked critics, who were forced to choose words for rev...

New orders have come to Prostokvashino. Perestroika did not pass by the Russian hinterland and now Russian realities in gold and in Mercedes drive around the...

This 1946 novel (by the author of the Worzel Gummidge books) is about a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard; she lives for three years on a ...

Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who p...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space S...