From my list on books to make you laugh by authors you’ve (probably) never heard of.
Why am I passionate about this?
I’m Steve Sheppard and I’m arguably the best person in the UK to create this list as I am myself the archetypal funny author whom nobody has heard of, having written three comedy spy thrillers, two out (A Very Important Teapot and Bored to Death in the Baltics) and one on the way (Poor Table Manners), all published by a genuine indie publisher, Claret Press. I would have loved to include a funny thriller in my list, but sadly, they are not to be found–not without resorting to farce and slapstick anyway.
Steve's book list on books to make you laugh by authors you’ve (probably) never heard of
Why did Steve love this book?
There are a great many comedy novels out there written in a diary format, some of them very well-known. Most of the ones I’ve read have proved disappointing: the comedy is either weak or not sustained. And you wouldn’t think the market could cope with another version of “harassed housewife humour.”
Well, you’d be wrong. Jane Ions’ book is not only original, but her style is guffaw-out-loud hilarious. A treat from start to finish. This is a really funny book, and the author’s writing style is right up my street.
1 author picked Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Sally's son Dan has come back home from college after completing
his performing arts degree. He needs rent-free accommodation, friends,
a love life, and somewhere to perform his arts. Sally
herself is taking a career break from teaching English. She's
tired of teaching year eleven pupils about the Mockingbird. She
wants to kill the bird and stuff it with all the redundant
apostrophe's' she's ever seen in twenty years of marking
essays. She needs a rest. She does not need her adult son Dan, his
current girlfriend, his previous girlfriend and his old school friend
to move in and share…