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King Lear retold by Pocket, the king's fool: bawdy, irreverent and, under all the jokes, surprisingly tender.
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Eric
Rincewind is dragged to Hell itself, where a bored teenage demon king wants someone to show him a good time.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Raised from the dead in the present day to fill in the missing years of the Gospels, Biff tells the story of growing up with his best friend Joshua and their travels east in search of what it means to be the Messiah.
A Dirty Job
Charlie Asher, a mild secondhand-store owner in San Francisco, becomes a widower and a single father on the same day, then discovers he has been drafted as a collector of souls.
Good Omens
An angel and a demon who've grown rather fond of Earth conspire to prevent the Apocalypse, in a comedy about the end of the world.
The Bright Sword
A young swordsman arrives at Camelot to join the Round Table just after King Arthur has died, and falls in with the misfit knights who remain, trying to hold Britain together.
The Once and Future King
The boy Arthur is tutored into kingship by a backwards-living Merlin and then must watch, across four linked books, the round table he built collapse into civil war.
Assistant to the Villain
Evie Sage needs a job to support her family, so when she lands a position as assistant to the Villain, the kingdom of Rennedawn's most feared man, she tries to treat it like any office job, despite the dungeons and her very attractive boss.
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
A man wakes in a field in what looks like medieval England with no memory and a guidebook for travellers, and tries to work out who he is before the people chasing him catch up.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and a bewildered Englishman hitchhikes across the galaxy with a depressed robot and a two-headed president.
Rivers of London
Probationary constable Peter Grant is guarding a murder scene in Covent Garden when he takes a statement from a witness who turns out to be a ghost, and is recruited into the Metropolitan Police's one-man unit for magic as a strange spree of violence breaks out.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
Anansi Boys
An ordinary London accountant learns at his father's funeral that the old man was the trickster god Anansi and that he has a brother, who turns up and starts taking over his life.