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The new novel from Bollinger-shortlisted Joseph Connolly.

Joseph Connolly's comic outrage skewers over-inflated celebrity culture and dethrones child stardom in this violently funny satire.

Susan wants another husband - which comes as a shock to the current one. A tale of a singular threesome.

Presents various aspects of eating away from home, offering a wealth of guidelines, suggestions, top tips, cautions, advice and insider knowledge to help everyone get the most out of their dining experience.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE: AS IF THE ROYLE FAMILY WERE WRITTEN BY MARTIN AMIS

The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton Bobbin, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose deadly (in more ways than one) serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. And then there is beautiful ex courtesan Amabelle Fortescue and her group of guests staying in a nearby cottage ... As the house parties starts to unravel, so the jokes increase- this is Nancy Mitford's second novel and one of her earliest forays into the world of the Bright Young Things.

Set against the backdrop of World War II, the story follows Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Earl Grady as he navigates a tense atmosphere of espionage and suspicion. Tasked with alerting local law enforcement about potential threats from Japanese residents, Grady's world spirals into chaos when a committee member is murdered shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack. The discovery of the body, gruesomely impaled by a samurai sword, leads the FBI to suspect Japanese spies, raising questions about loyalty and prejudice during a time of war.

S.O.S. is a perfect companion to Connolly's other bestselling holidays from hell ... horribly funny.' The TImes 'His monologues read like Wodehouse rewritten by Joyce.' Independent

Lucas Cage can now lay claim to the only part of his father's enormous legacy that he ever craved - The Works, the disused old printing house hard by the Thames. Lucas invites special people to share it with him: 'the family', as he comes to call them. 'Connolly is a funny man . . . He creates a sense of intimacy and collusion with his reader that is rare in contemporary fiction.' Financial Times 'The Works shows off Joseph Connolly's verbal glee, his relentless enjoyment of voices at full tilt. And in the monstrously loveable building, he offers readers a special treat.' Independent 'Connolly manages to suggest an overarching allegory of almost Beckettian largeness and openness . . . Entertaining, but emotionally and intellectually involving too, Connolly's memorable novel is a story of the light that failed.' Daily Telegraph

The repetitions and ruminations of a multitude of inner voices, the comic set pieces and the horrified hyperreal prose are as spot-on as ever.' Guardian '[An] immaculately plotted comedy of manners ... this is the sort of book it is quite impossible to put down once you have opened it.' The Times