Freight Books: 23 books

Doctors, nurses, and dentists see it all in the line of duty. This hilarious, sometimes shocking, sometimes eye-watering collection of first-hand accounts from our valiant medical professionals will have you in stitches. From the man with a device lodged far inside his body whose batteries refuse...

An outstanding debut collection of stories in a similar vein as Nobody Belongs Here More than Me; Girl, Interrupted; and Prozac Nation Announcing the arrival of an extraordinary new voice, this is a viciously funny, gut-wrenching, and shockingly frank account of sexual misadventure, familial...

A fascinating and moving account of walking in the footsteps of others, and a masterwork of travel writing   In 1952, Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through the Swiss Alps. It was the last walk he would ever take. Linda retraces that fateful journey 50 years later, following...

Beautifully crafted, perceptive, sometimes shocking, and often heartbreaking stories that examine the impact of cheap international travel on modern lives and relationships A boys' weekend in Eastern Europe spirals out of control. A bleeding tourist is rescued by a stranger in downtown Toronto....

A stunning and beguiling debut set in India, with a dual narrative, one in the past just after Partition, and the other in the present day James Connor is a man who, burdened with guilt following a tragic event in his youth, has dedicated his life to serving India. Ruth Connor is his estranged...

A hilarious, charming, and foul-mouthed look inside the minds of man's best friends What is my dog thinking? That's the question that every dog owner asks when their beloved pet stares up at them with an inscrutable look. Is it love? Is it devotion? Don’t believe it. This book exclusively...

The best ever selling novel from the former Yugoslavia, this is a hilarious, anarchic, irreverent black comedy about national aspirations and wanting things you can't have Egon is an amoral but charismatic writer, living on the breadline in a grim, unnamed communist factory town in Slovenia...

A stunning coffee table book of Glasgow's world-class architectural detail, hidden in plain sight at the tops of the city's iconic buildings Glasgow is Scotland's largest city, its streets a constant frenetic bustle of activity, but rarely do its residents take the time to stop and look up...

A gripping, intelligent, high stakes political conspiracy thriller with a satirical edge, exposing the ad industry's subliminal programming of the Facebook generation, the cynicism of government spin, and the temptations of power It's the near future and a beleaguered UK Prime Minister resigns,...

A blackly comic tale of two 11-year-old psychopaths who go on a murderous rampage in their small Northern Irish town Pearse Furlong and May-Belle Mulholland are two normal 11-year-olds meeting one summer in small town Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the early 1980s. They have little in common...

An award-winning comic novel about truth, lies, and storytelling, with an unforgettably unreliable narrator, translated from its innovative Swiss vernacular back into the Glaswegian that was its original inspiration Known only as "the goalie," the novel's narrator is always taking...

From tongue scraper to sushi tray to pharmaceutical preparation surface—the many ways to recycle or upcycle one's dead Kindle In a few short years the Kindle e-reader has become one of the most iconic objects of our contemporary culture. But what happens when a Kindle dies? These 101 hilarious...

A glorious exploration of working class consciousness, family ties and tensions, memory, misadventure, and redemption An extraordinary tour de force of working class fiction, this is a blackly comic, moving tale of real lives, misadventures, and family. Reported entirely by the protagonist,...

An outstanding collection of contemporary short stories from a unique and virtuoso new voice, combining the fearlessness of Raymond Carver and subtlety of William Trevor with the unflinching vision of Paul Bowles In evading an ingratiating unofficial guide, a hapless backpacker seals his fate....