Titoli in Umorismo nero

Ten full-cast dramas featuring some of the best known names in British comedy. In these ten witty, dark and disturbing episodes some of Britain’s best comedians come together to perform simultaneously hilarious and unsettling stories that will have you gripped. Sticky situations on ski slopes...

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets...

Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is (or who they think she is). After over 800 days without murdering anyone, the woman formerly known as the Sweetpea Killer thinks she might have finally turned over a new leaf. That is until her soon-to-be sister-in-law has a run in with her abusive ex, and Rhiannon rediscovers her taste for revenge.

A young woman must unmask a serial killer and prove her innocence, all before her best friend’s wedding in this hilarious “sultry summer thriller” (The New York Times). Gwen Turner has made a bloody mess of her life. She recently broke up with the best man she’s ever known for reasons...

Between 1947 and 1957, Ealing Studios produced a series of immensely popular, darkly funny film comedies that made the West London borough famous throughout the world. Almost 50 years later, four of these timeless films were recreated for BBC Radio 4, and are now collected together for the first time.

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery in the spirt of Murder on the Orient Express. With Ernest Cunningham, “Stevenson has brought a modern-day Poirot to the mystery scene”(Michelle Carpenter). When the...

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns. And Lenny Marks is very, very good at not remembering what happened the day her mother and stepfather disappeared when she was still a child. The day a voice in the back of her mind started whispering, You did this.

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in a novel that “[brims] with insecure characters, clever repartee, dark jokes and funny riffs” (The Wall Street Journal) “Insightful, compassionate, biting and honest.”—The...

In this provocative, darkly funny, and unique novel—a mix of Lord of the Flies and The Royal Tenenbaums—a dictator's former right-hand man becomes housebound and a family power struggle erupts. Growing up on a Cuba-esque Caribbean island, Casandra, Calia, and Caleb endure life under two...

Henri Koskinen firmly believes in the power of common sense and order. That is until he moves in with Laura Helanto and her daughter. As Henri realises he has inadvertently become part of a group of local dads, a competing adventure park is seeking to expand their operations, not always sticking to the law in the process. Is it possible to combine the increasingly dangerous world of the adventure-park business with the unpredictability of life in a blended family? At first glance, the two appear to have only one thing in common: neither deals particularly well with a mounting body count.

Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the Badlands of Southeast England. She's never felt more Thelma and Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead. How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?

Sebastian Kunze ist als Großstadtjournalist gescheitert. Er landet mit Frau und Tochter in der brandenburgischen Provinz, denn Melanie ist Psychotherapeutin, und auf dem Land gibt es, was sie braucht: Einen Kassensitz und therapiebedürftige Menschen. Doch die ländliche Realität zwischen Gurkenständen und Landgaststätten hält für das Paar einige Überraschungen bereit. Melanie traut sich bald kaum mehr auf die Straße - wegen all der "Bescheuerten". Sebastian hingegen lernt die Überschaubarkeit des neuen Lebens zu schätzen.

Es läuft nicht gerade gut für den titelgebenden Künstler. Der Einzige, der ihm Aufmerksamkeit schenkt, ist sein Drogendealer. Bis er durch einen glücklichen Zufall ein Arbeitsstipendium an einem neurologischen Institut erhält, das alles verändert und ihm neuen Schwung verleiht. Die rettende Idee: eine von Neurowissenschaften inspirierte Ausstellung! Doch in dem verheißungsvollen Institut geht es abgedrehter zu als erwartet.

""Brydie Lee-Kennedy's writing is sharp and funny and humane. A passionate chronicler of the ridiculous—in people, in society, in sex—Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit."" —Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually For readers of Dolly Alderton...

Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident. I know she was murdered. But I can’t remember a thing. I’ve woken up with the hangover from hell, a stranger in my bed, and I’ve gone viral for the worst reasons. There’s only thing stopping me from dying of shame. I need to find a killer.

Dave is one of Irwell Cars' best drivers, although his life doesn't always reflect that. A run-down office with an uncertain future, Irwell Cars isn't offering Dave much—except the chance to pine after Lind, the long-suffering radio operator and his secret crush, and panic over what will become of him if the firm closes. Add in a crucial darts match, a 'Brief Encounter' themed date night, some former school bullies and a rather difficult omelette, and Dave is beginning to feel like even his pick ups are bringing him down...

FINALIST FOR THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AN NPR, BBC, AND DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the...

Geld weg, Firma weg, Perspektive weg und von der Vermieterin vor die Tür gesetzt. So besuchen Heff und seine treudoofen Angestellten den einzigen Mitarbeiter der Firma, der von all dem nichts mitbekommen hat, weil er grundsätzlich nur zu Hause arbeitet: Michael. Alles andere als Begeistert ob dieses spontanen Obdachgesuchs, bringt Michael einfach Sack und Pack auf einen alten, verfallenen Bauernhof, für den die Bezeichnung "Bruchbude" noch zu gut wäre. Aus welchen Gründen auch immer sieht Heff in diesem bau- bzw.

Als Heff, der Chef von einer zweitägigen Geschäftsreise zurück in seine Firma kommt, trifft ihn der Schlag in Form einer wahren Lawine aus Müll. Schnell ist klar, dass seine Jungs dieses Chaos nie und nimmer bewältigen können, selbst wenn die Vermieterin noch so sehr mit der Kündigung der Räumlichkeiten droht. Also beschliesst der größenwahnsinnige Heff im ersten Putzfrauen-Casting der Welt eine Reinigungsfachkraft für seine Firma zu ermitteln.

Umweltkatastrophen, Vulkanasche, Erdbeben, Atomkriege... All diese Dinge sind für Michael nicht einmal ansatzweise so schlimm, wie auch nur einen Fuß in die Firma zu setzen, für die er arbeitet. Als sich seine Wohnung aber wegen eines durch seinen Chef ungewollt verursachten Kakerlakenangriffs in eine Quarantänezone verwandelt und er gezwungen ist, einen Tag in der Firma zu verbringen, ist seine Laune entsprechend gigantisch.