Humorous category: 20629 books

Frieda Kunkelheimer knew she wasn’t welcome in the world from her earliest stirrings. She also knew she was big and ugly, as proclaimed by her grandmother on the day of her birth. Though Frieda Kunkelheimer later blossoms into a beautiful and successful Hollywood film star, it had been determined,...

Light reading of the humorous doings of patrons and barflies in an Australian suburban pub.Narrated by a New Australian as he sees it and in his odd way of using the English language.Entertaining. Set in Sydney's Newtown area during the late fifties and early sixties.Larger than life characters. Most yarns have an unexpected twist in the ending.

Toots, a writer of sexy romance novels, and Max, both in their sixties, enjoy a weekend “cruise” on the Queen Mary, a ship docked for forty years in Long Beach, California and thought to be haunted. At dinner in Sir Winston's Restaurant, the couple experience a ghost sighting of their own....

Fed up with living in a PC world? If so, then Nelson to the Rescue is here to restore your sanity. Nelson to the Rescue is a collection of ten humorous short stories related from the viewpoint of a very non-PC feline. King-of-the-cats Nelson tells it like it is, with nobody escaping his waspish...

Krum's at Christmere is a humorous, urban adventure story. It follows the exploits of a young man whose "family" controls organized crime in the Bronx at the end of the 1950s. After years of dedicated work, Cupid's arrow hits and everything changes. He must choose between the love of his...

Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize “I don’t aspire to be nice. I do what is necessary to get what I want.” Born on the night of the nation’s independence, Gimme Lao is cheated of the honour of being Singapore’s firstborn son by a vindictive nurse. This forms...

How would life be different if we had to share the world with animals that walked and talked like us? What if your pets started talking back to you? Would cats and dogs be allowed to teach school? "Funny Animals and Funny People" is a collection of seven humorous super-short stories about anthropomorphic animals and humans.

johnny refuses to believe that he's dead even when the bullet that kills his friend, cutter, passes straight through him. now with a companion spirit to help him they set out to uncover how and why they were killed. a journey that could humanise johnny; he having failed to achieve it in life....

Fast, fun and furious this humorous modern Australian fiction has had a wide appreciative audience.The cover is by Micheal Leunig, one of Australia's living legends, and the reviews are like this ;"This little gem . . ." Brian Forte, Australian Book Review."A novel which...

SMOKE’S SCREEN is a modern take on the old Carson City days, where no one is virtuous and integrity is based solely upon the lesser of greater evils. It is a story of con artists, hoodlums, and corrupt cops; all vying for the same prize but with different agendas. Smokey Howard is a career...

Come join me on a walk around Audubon. Walk right into the lives of four very eccentric characters. You’ll first meet five-foot Hester and his wife six-nine Mavis. Along the way, you’ll also be introduced to their good friend and boarder, Tallulah. Although originally from West Africa, she’s...

In Melissa Balmain’s Walking in on People, the serious is lightened with a generous serving of wit and humor, and the lighthearted is enriched with abundant wisdom. She shows us how poetry can be fun yet grounded in everyday challenges and triumphs, with subjects ranging from the current...

The Queen’s English is a whimsical novel about a sexy future monarch who reigns over the country once known as the United States of America. She is guardian, too, of the English language. Her tongue-in-cheek name is Jackpot Pastiche, Harlot Queen of English, and we follow her story in a picaresque...

By turns hilarious and bittersweet, Andy Mozina’s winning debut novel introduces a charming new hero for our times: a dysfunctional, divorced family man whose passion for life comes straight from the harp.   Matthew Grzbc is a talented musician who plays the concert harp. He is a divorced dad who...