Sarah tastes of grease, Donalds are rubber ducks dipped in vinegar... Julie McDowall has an unusual form of synaesthesia, which means that she can taste names. Want to know what yours tastes like? Now you can find out.

A memoir about cycling and stand-up comedy

A tribal medicine woman must learn the truth of her past and the extent of her abilities to protect her people from invaders.

Dark, clever, funny: two new stories from a modern master

Unbound's first first-time novelist - her pitch is almost a movie in itself...

Mrs Stephen Fry's guide to an almost perfect marriage, just like hers...

The book of the BBC Radio 4 series starring Stephen Fry, Daniel Rigby and Tamsin Greig

A sci-fi novel by the star of Red Dwarf set 200 years in the future

An illustrated anthology in which 26 writers respond to 26 treasures in 4 museums, using only 62 words

Heat magazine – 18th century style

Meet Brenda Monk - she's a woman who does stand up

The brilliant sequel to News from Gardenia

A searing thriller that pitches the oil industry against the arms trade

Archaeology can be a dirty business

Time-travelling Gavin Meckler reaches his third and final alternative future

Sex, Paris, murder, an imaginary world and an untranslatable book

A contemporary novel about tabloids, spies and quite a lot of sex

Here it is at last – all my poetry collected in one place. Oh, and some illustrations too

What if you did every single deal that came up on Groupon?

Alan Cadbury is back in the thrilling sequel to The Lifers' Club

Collating the obscure dregs of the eighties and nineties video game industry so we can all point and laugh

Terrorism with a social conscience, a debut novel

The hidden silly side of higher education

The first in a brand new series of Viking adventure fantasy novels

A supernatural murder mystery novel set in late Victorian London.

A thriller set in London during the time of the 7/7 terror attacks

The strangest detective story in the history of music

A crime thriller, an existential mystery, a love story

The only thing worse than waking up with the hangover from hell is waking up with a hangover in hell

Portraits of Britain's leading comedians and their favourite one liners