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1) Black Comedy
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I have the body of a person of 18 years. And I keep it in my mother's fridge.
This ebook gathers 50 short stories of black humor.
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If Preston Sturges and Anthony Trollope had collaborated on a breezy how-to manual for pickpocketing, forgery, house burglary, counterfeiting, and murdering a few of your closest relatives, it might have turned out a little like this light-fingered caper about all those things and more.
TENNYSON TYMPANY starts with death by falling brontosaurus and a fortune built on toothpaste-filled golf balls, and vaults from there to ever greater nonsense-taking...
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The author of The Reformed Vampire Support Group turns her talents to shapeshifters of the furry kind in this howling good read.
When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the night before, his horrified mother tells him that he was found unconscious. At Featherdale Wildlife Park. In a dingo pen. He assumes that his two best friends are somehow responsible, until the mysterious Reuben turns up, claiming that Toby has...
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"So, you want me to give you a brief summary of our adventures?Fine, I'll try:The codenames DIANA and ARTEMIS belong to two members of a mysterious underground secret agency.After the failure of their first mission together, their own financial crisis will force these soul mates to work alongside in the crime world.With the help of IT expert and surgeon genius Abhi, they will try to find their place in a world that has erased their names from all...
5) Chinglish
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As heard on Radio 4's Woman's Hour and BBC Breakfast TV
It is difficult trying to talk in our family cos:
a) Grandparents don't speak English at all
b) Mum hardly speaks any English
c) Me, Bonny and Simon hardly speak Chinese
d) Dad speaks Chinese and good English — but doesn't like talking
In other words, we all have to cobble together tiny bits of English and Chinese into a rubbish new language I call 'Chinglish'. It is very awkward.
Jo...
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