A selection of humour novels

CLASSIC FICTION. What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and h...

Nick Hornby meets Almost Famous in this side-splittingly funny coming-of-middle-age debut novel about the lead singer of a one-hit wonder 90s band who tries for one more swing at the fences.

CRIME & MYSTERY FICTION. Janet Evanovich's lovable and hapless heroine, Stephanie Plum, is back for her fourteenth adventure - guaranteed to beher most outrageous, hilarious and action-packed ever!

It's almost Mummy's 50th birthday. The hot flushes have just started, and nowadays she barely recognises herself. She's been a wife and mother for so long that she can't remember what life was like pre-moppets. Speaking of, Jane is constantly partying and more interested in passing her driving te...

Laura Cassidy is going all the way. Hollywood. Starry lights. The Walk of Fame. Its her destiny. At least, that's what her movie-obsessed father used to tell her. That was always the plan. Sure, its been a bit slow-going, but the stars have finally aligned. The long-awaited new theatre is about t...

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue cookbook, he expects it to be the perfect escape from stressful city life. But when he arrives, things quickly take a turn for the worse. His hired car is nowhere to be found, and with no record...

It's the smallest things that make the biggest difference. Annie has been sad for so long that she's forgotten how to be any other way. She's trudging miserably through every day, sheer determination keeping her going. Until she meets Polly. Polly is everything that Annie is not. She's colourful,...

Lizzy Tucker's once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem, Massachusets, turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to unnaturally talented but off-limits partner Diesel.

Calida Lyons is having a very bad week. She's long past deadline for her still-unwritten second novel; her husband has just left her; and her Blue Mountains community is being threatened by bushfires. Just as she hits rock bottom, she's forced to shelter with neighbours while a fire incinerates e...

Exhausted by dead-end forays in the gay dating scene, surrounded constantly by friends but deeply lonely in New York City, and drifting into academic abyss, 20-something graduate student Richard has plenty of sources of anxiety. But at the forefront is his crippling writer's block, which threaten...