The Serpent of Venice: A Novel

Big apple 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, together 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 booklet, I’ll tell you precisely how one can turn into a grasp undercover agent similar to me. evidently, you won’t be pretty much 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 no longer being me. yet don’t beat your self up approximately it, simply because I’m going to teach you all of the solid stuff—what to put on; what to drink; easy methods to seduce girls (and, whilst precious, men); the best way to beat up males (and, whilst valuable, women); find out how to inform the variation among name women 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 giant deal. yet what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the weird deaths of 3 aged Ankh-Morporkians don't endure the fresh, effective marks of the Assassins' Guild. An obvious loss of any cause is additionally relatively troubling. All Vimes has are a few tracks of white clay and extra of these bothersome "clue" issues that purely serve to muck up an research.

Bearded Tit

A poignant yet hilarious trip into the arcane global of birdwatching via probably the most well known 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 track of the yellowhammer together with his imaginary female friend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in school whilst he must have been using himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to provide himself a battling likelihood with the main attractive lady he had ever obvious.