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  Weird but Normal - Essays

  Anonym

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  Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal. 
  Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of a weirdo. Whether it’s spending $30 on a candle that smells like an ocean that doesn’t exist, offering advice on how to ask about someone’s race (spoiler: just don’t, please?), quitting a job that makes you need shots of whiskey on your lunch break, or finding a more religious experience in the skincare aisle at Target than your hometown Catholic church, Mia brilliantly unpacks what it means to be a professional, absurdly beautiful, horny, cute, gross human. Essays include: 
  •     Depression Isn’t a Competition but Why Aren’t I Winning? 
  •     My Dog Explains My Weekly Schedule 
  •     Mustache Lady 
  •     White Friend Confessional 
  •     Treating Objects Like Women 
  With sharp humor and wit, Mia shares the awkward, uncomfortable, surprisingly ordinary parts of life, and shows us why it’s strange to feel fine and fine to feel strange.

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  The Start of Something Wonderful

  Jane Lambert

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  ‘It is so bloody funny you will be crying with laughter. This is definitely what a rom-com is all about’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'It’s funny, witty, heartbreaking and heartwarming … I could not put it down' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  * * * *It’s never too late to follow your dreams… 
  Emily Forsyth is on cloud nine… 
  She has a high-flying job (literally), a hunky boyfriend (soon to be fiancé?) and a life of luxury. But then, out of the blue, her boyfriend dumps her for a younger woman, and Emily comes crashing down to earth. 
  Suddenly, she’s single and homeless, and the prospect of staying in the same job as her cheating ex is unbearable. So, at forty years not-so-young, she quits steady employment and decides to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an actress. 
  But with eccentric acting teachers, unreliable agents, and some decidedly unglamorous roles on offer, has she made a huge mistake? Or is this the start of something wonderful? 
  Previously published as Learning to Fly 
  * * * *Readers love Jane Lambert 
  'There is a lot of love, warmth and humour in this novel' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'Jane Lambert's writing is laugh-out-loud funny' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘It had me absorbed throughout … a real page-turner’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  This is a contemporary romance that tells the story of Emily, a woman who, after being dumped by her boyfriend, decides to follow her lifelong dream of becoming an actress. Despite the challenges and unglamorous roles, she remains resilient and proves that it's never too late to start something wonderful. 
  For fans of Carmen Reid (The Mum Who Got Away), Rebecca Ryan (The Philosophy of Love), Linda Green (The Woman with All the Answers), Janet Hoggarth (Us Two), and Joanna Nell (The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  The Adulterants

  Joe Dunthorne

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  For fans of Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, and Mark Haddon, The Adulterants is a piercingly funny—and cringingly poignant—take on how hard it is to grow up and how hard it is when you don't. 
   
    
   
  Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated group of friends, and a wife, Garthene, who is pregnant. He is a man who has never been punched above the neck. He has never committed adultery with his actual body. He has never been caught up in a riot, nor arrested, nor tagged by the state, nor become an international hate-figure. Not until the summer of 2011, when discontent is rising on the streets and within his marriage. Ray has noticed none of this. Not yet. 
   
   
   
  The Adulterants would be a coming-of-age story if its protagonist could only forget that he is thirty-three years old. Throughout a series of escalating catastrophes, our deadpan antihero keeps up a merciless mental commentary on the foibles and failings of those around him, and the vicissitudes of modern urban life: internet trolls, buy-to-let landlords, open marriages, and the threat posed by more sensitive men. But the wonder of The Adulterants is how we feel ourselves rooting for Ray even as we acknowledge that he deserves everything he gets.

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  The Diary of a Nobody

  George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

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  This “jewel at the heart of English comic literature” chronicles the daily fortunes and misfortunes of a middle-age, middle-class clerk (William Trevor, The Mail on Sunday).   Since its original publication in 1892, The Diary of a Nobody has become a much-loved classic. It is a fictional man’s dissection of the everyday drama of his life as an office worker in a London firm. With dry wit, the authors step into the character of Charles Pooter as he navigates work life with not-so-respectful young coworkers and family life with his charming wife, Carrie, and impetuous son, Lupin. From home repairs gone wrong (painting the tub red), to the comings and goings of his friends Cummings and Gowings, Pooter painstakingly shares intimate details of his existence, with the (not completely absurd) hope of maybe someday having his memoir published. An ongoing tally of the good jokes he makes shares space with descriptions of grievous insults to his person, party mishaps, the annoying behavior of everyone around him, and Lupin’s on-again off-again employment and engagement status. The Diary of a Nobody gives everyone a reason to laugh—and recognize themselves in Pooter’s droll prose.  “The funniest book in the world.” —Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited  “There’s a universality about Pooter that touches everybody . . . [he] fits into the tradition of absurd humour that the British do well, which started with Jonathan Swift and runs through Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear to Monty Python.” —Jasper Fforde, Time Out  “Pooter himself is as gentle as you could wish, a wonderful character, genuinely lovable. The book is beautifully constructed.” —Andrew Davies, The Herald

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  Walk of Shame - G-Man Next...

  Andrea Smith

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  G-MAN #6 (Can be read as stand-alone as this is the Next-Gen sub-series!) 
  Holy Hockey Puck! 
  Weston Matthews is twenty-one, a senior in a prestigious, Ivy League College, and has a tongue like Gene Simmons!  
  He's a frat boy, hockey jock, and all around ladies man. He does have one problem though: he has to ace his  
  Classic Lit II class in order to graduate and stay eligible to play hockey for Hardwick University. 
  Weston is provided a tutor to help with his senior Lit class. Enter Penny Lane, also a senior at another local college,  
  doing part-time status at Hardwick. She tutors to earn money, but her aspirations go far beyond just that.  
  Penny is plain, nerdy, brilliant, and has a hidden agenda. She and Weston get off on the wrong foot, and from there,  
  things will only get crazier. 
  Fasten your seat belts, and hold on for dear life as you take this roller-coaster ride on the Walk of Shame! 
  Adult Content; Sexual Situations, 18+

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  You Can't Iron a Wrinkled...

  Sharon Phennah

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  "When I get old, I hope to have friends as awesome as these. This is an absolutely feel good novel. Naturally, our intrepid characters, wattles and all, undergo all sorts of trials, but it's the compassion and generosity they exhibit that endears the reader." -- Sam Sanders, via NetGalleyZany families, eccentric friends, and ne-er-do-well neighbors inhabit the labyrinthine lives of three women friends as they grapple with real world events in one "Golden Year."An unwelcome visit from local law enforcement, a younger friend's romantic chaos, and the death of a parent combine with daily mundanities---laundry, scones, and senior sex---to create a walloping, raucous read.Opinionated pets---critics and alter egos---offer a rich counterpoint to the human dramas affecting their lives.Unfiltered and compelling, this entertaining sago provides readers of all ages with a new and positive view of growing older.

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