The Serpent of Venice: A Novel

Ny occasions bestselling writer Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe within the Serpent of Venice, a satiric Venetian gothic that brings again the Pocket of puppy Snogging, the eponymous hero of idiot, with his sidekick, Drool, and puppy monkey, Jeff. Venice, decades in the past.

How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written

Mendacity is like ninety five% of what I do. yet think me: during this ebook, I’ll inform you precisely the right way to develop into a grasp undercover agent similar to me. evidently, you won’t be nearly as good at it as i'm, yet that’s simply because you’re you, and I’m Sterling Archer. i do know, i do know, it sucks now not being me. yet don’t beat your self up approximately it, simply because I’m going to teach you the entire stable stuff—what to put on; what to drink; how you can seduce girls (and, whilst useful, men); how one can beat up males (and, whilst valuable, women); how you can inform the variation among name ladies and hookers (hint: while they’re useless, they’re simply hookers) and every little thing approximately guns, mystery units, mendacity ex-girlfriends, and turtlenecks.

Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld

It truly is homicide in Discworld! —which quite often isn't any great deal. yet what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the weird deaths of 3 aged Ankh-Morporkians don't undergo the fresh, effective marks of the Assassins' Guild. An obvious loss of any cause is usually fairly troubling. All Vimes has are a few tracks of white clay and extra of these bothersome "clue" issues that merely serve to muck up an research.

Bearded Tit

A poignant yet hilarious trip into the arcane global of birdwatching by way of some of the most renowned names in British comedy, Bearded Tit is Rory McGrath’s tale of existence between birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs hearing the tune of the yellowhammer along with his imaginary female friend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws at school whilst he must have been making use of himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to offer himself a combating probability with the main attractive woman he had ever noticeable.