With their outrageous tastes and boundless energy, the Larkins have charmed many a reader. Alice Tait’s illustrations for Folio capture the epicurean excesses of this flamboyant family.
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Douglas Adams brilliantly combines science fiction with the finest tradition of English humour. In this, the first of his ‘trilogy of five’, he introduces Earthbound readers to Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, the Babel fish and the stolen Heart of Gold starship.
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Produced in series with the novels of Jeeves and Wooster previously published by The Folio Society, these three volumes of stories form a delicious addition for fans, or a superb introduction for those not yet acquainted with the delights of Wodehouse.
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A romp through life at a provincial English university. Often lauded as one of the funniest books of the 20th century, the story follows the travails of the eponymous hero, an accident-prone history lecturer at odds with the world around him.
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When Lucia, self-styled Queen of Riseholme, moves to the village of Tilling, she meets her match in the deliciously manipulative Miss Mapp, and a legendary battle of two social Titans ensues. The Mapp and Lucia novels of E.F. Benson are a triumph of comic writing.
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Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season between the wars, the story of coldly beautiful Polly Hampton and her aristocratic parents is the brilliant Nancy Mitford's most sparkling comedy.
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Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, who is relentless in her search for true love.
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Douglas Adams’s work has been compared to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard and even Jonathan Swift. In his introduction, science-fiction writer Adam Roberts describes this novel as ‘that rare thing: a sequel that surpasses its original’.
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Darkly comic yet deadly serious, The Screwtape Letters depicts a morally reversed world in which Screwtape presses his protégé to ever more ingenious means of temptation.
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A product of a golden age of English literary humour, Zuleika Dobson is a rare combination of elegance and comic oddity reminiscent of Saki and Wilde - perfectly captured, in this edition, by Michael Kirkham's charming modernist illustrations.
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