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  Living From A Suitcase - Join...

  Chirag Patel

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  A collection of comic articles, collecting humorous travelogues as a Brit wanders the wilds of Africa and Asia. Includes... 
  - A rock diary following a gigging band in London in the mid 2000s, who might be any aspirant post student band you've ever known 
  - Travels around Asia on the modern Grand Tour, back in the years before the crisis hit 
  - Strange journeys and getting attacked at a go kart track in India 
  - The ruminations of an Englishman emigrating to South Africa and wondering what the hell is going on, but loving it 
  - collected journalism from Durban in South Africa, early in the Zuma years 
  - selected short fiction

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  Lump

  Nathan Whitlock

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  A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life — a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success. Her actions send waves of chaos through the lives of multiple characters, including a struggling house cleaner, a rich and charismatic yoga guru, and even an ailing dog. What follows is a dark comedy about marriage, motherhood, privilege, and power.

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  The The Best of Saki Volume 3

  Saki Saki

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  The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this third volume, there are 21 glittering examples.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870, where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two, he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon, and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later he traveled in Europe with his father. He joined the Burma police, but resigned after a year because of ill health and returned to England where he began his writing career as a journalist and short story writer for magazines and newspapers. Saki is regarded as a master of the short story.At the start of the First World War he refused a commission, enlisted as a private, and went to France where - in November 1916 - he was killed by a shot to the head, his last words being "Put that bloody cigarette out."Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  The Reluctant Fortune-Teller - A...

  Keziah Frost

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  A retired accountant finds a new calling as the town fortune-teller in this “charming, warm, and wittily told” debut novel (Kirkus Reviews). 
   
  Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It’s why at seventy-three years old he’s broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when “Carlotta’s Club” —three strong-willed seniors with plenty of time on their hands—decide to make Norbert their latest project, he reluctantly agrees to their scheme: establishing himself as the town’s fortune-teller. Soon his life begins changing in unexpected ways. 
   
  It turns out that years of observing other people make Norbert an excellent card reader. As Norbert’s lonesome world expands with new friendships and a newfound self-confidence, he finally finds what he never had—a place to belong. But disaster looms on the horizon. When a troubled young woman goes missing after a bad reading, Norbert must find a strength beyond the cards to bring her home safely.

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  Uncle John's New & Improved...

  Institute Bathroom Readers'

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  Get your trivia on the go with this Uncle John’s anthology of fun fast facts, includes over twenty-five pages of new content!  Uncle John’s New & Improved Briefs is chock-full of thousands of great facts and hundreds of quick hits covering history, origins, blunders, sports, pop science, and entertainment plus a sprinkling of riddles, puns, anagrams, and other classic wordplay. Read about . . . The secrets of top-secret spy lingoThe monkey that got a head transplant . . . and livedBizarre recipes: jellied moose nose, steamed muskrat legs, and haggisThe worst movie bloopers from Best Picture Oscar winnersThe little-known story of the best deal in sports historyThe man behind Death Valley’s “Castle in the Desert”How to decipher the hidden codes on a dollar billSinister left-handed factsEarth’s greatest hits And much, much more!

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  Volpone or The Fox

  Ben Jonson

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  Volpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among the finest Jacobean Era comedies. Volpone is a Venetian gentleman who pretends to be on his deathbed, after a long illness, in order to dupe Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino, three men who aspire to inherit his fortune. In their turns, each man arrives to Volpone’s house bearing a luxurious gift, intent upon having his name inscribed to the will of Volpone, as his heir. Mosca, Volpone’s parasite servant, encourages each man, Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino, to believe that he has been named heir to Volpone’s fortune; in the course of which, Mosca persuades Corbaccio to disinherit his own son in favour of Volpone. - Summary by WikipediaCast list:Volpone, a magnifico: Zachary Brewster-GeiszMosca, his parasite: Elizabeth KlettVoltore, an advocate: Peter TuckerCorbaccio, an old gentleman: alanmapstoneCorvino, a merchant: Beth ThomasBonario, son to Corbaccio: ToddHWSir Politick Would-Be, a knight: ToddHWPeregrine, a gentleman traveler: inflectedNano, a dwarf: mbCastrone, an eunuch / Fourth Avocatore: balaAndrogyno, an hermaphrodite / Notario, the register: Libby GohnLady Would-Be, Sir Politick's wife: Frances BrownCelia, Corvino's wife: Sarah TerryFirst Waiting-Woman / Servant: AvailleFirst Avocatore / First Merchant: Mary KaySecond Avocatore / Second Merchant: Mary JThird Avocatore / Third Merchant: Elizabeth KlettNarrator: Elizabeth KlettEdited By:  ToddHWand : Elizabeth KlettCoordinated By: Elizabeth Klett

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