The Drought

10 best books like The Drought (Steven Scaffardi): Dumped, Actually, Buzzing Easter Bunnies, The '86 Fix: A 1980s Time Travel Novel, Tuned Out, Checking Out, Dry Hard, Mad Love, Blue Christmas Balls: A Laugh Out Loud Comedy Novella, Driven to Distraction, Love... From Both Sides

Dumped, Actually
AuthorNick Spalding
ISBN1978665784
From the bestselling author of Checking Out and Dry Hard comes a hilarious story about losing the love of your life, and finding yourself in the aftermath.

When Ollie Sweet is very publicly dumped by ‘The One’, his seemingly perfect world dissolves into misery, self-pity, and a bizarre...
AuthorNick Spalding
The sequel to BLUE CHRISTMAS BALLS from Nick Spalding, the bestselling author of the smash hit romantic comedy Love... From Both Sides and its sequels Love... And Sleepless Nights & Love... Under Different Skies.

Every story needs a decent climax...

There are plenty of things...
The '86 Fix: A 1980s Time Travel Novel
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
Imagine if you could travel back in time to when you were sixteen.

Imagine if you could spend one weekend reliving your past — would you change anything?

Everything wrong with Craig Pelling’s life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke....
Tuned Out
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
"One of those books which leaves you feeling bereft when you get to the end. An addictive page-turner laced with hilarity, poignancy and nostalgia."

Toby Grant spends his days working for a digital marketing agency and his nights stressing about how unfair life is for his generation. With...
Checking Out
AuthorNick Spalding
ISBN1612185940
What do you do when the doctor says you could die at any moment? Well…after you’ve made a cup of tea, of course.

Nathan James is young, successful and has the world at his feet. Unfortunately, he’s also about to die—which ruins things somewhat. And now he’s staring imminent death in...
Dry Hard
AuthorNick Spalding
ISBN1542041651
From the bestselling author of Fat Chance and Checking Out comes a hilarious story about giving up… but definitely not giving in.

Kate and Scott’s marriage has always been a lot of fun, with alcohol at the heart of it. After all, what’s more entertaining than a good laugh and a large drink…...
Mad Love
AuthorNick Spalding
ISBN1531877672
Can two people who have never met make a marriage work? Popular dating site Sociality thinks so, and is marrying London lad Adam to California girl Jessica to prove it.

What better way to show that your ‘love algorithms’ work than to put two complete strangers together in an expensive publicity...
Blue Christmas Balls: A Laugh Out Loud Comedy Novella
AuthorNick Spalding
Twenty Seven year old Matt is a virgin. Determined to get it over and done with and lose his virginity, he gives himself a date to have the deed done and dusted by, this Christmas.

We are firstly introduced to Matt as he tells us about his disastrous love life and failed sexual activities. We then...
Driven to Distraction
AuthorStuart Bone
Derek Noble wishes now that he’d read the small print in the holiday brochure before booking the luxury coach trip to rural Tenhamshire. Apparently it’s fine for Scrimshaw Travel to make last minute amendments to the holiday without incurring any penalties or reducing the price in any way. That’s...
Love... From Both Sides
AuthorNick Spalding
When Nick Spalding self-published Love... From Both Sides and Love... And Sleepless Nights he became one of the bestselling ebook authors of 2012. Now for the first time the Love... books are being published in a longer format with more of the love story, more of Laura and Jamie's ups and downs and more...
Sex Lessons
AuthorDaniel Grant
ISBN1908147598
'Just because you couldn't get it up once, doesn't mean we cancel the whole thing,' says Jenny. Now, in her defence, she did whisper that last line. However, the fact she's saying it at all, let alone in a public sandwich bar are grounds for a firing squad as far as I'm concerned.'

Straight-talking...
Bricking It
AuthorNick Spalding
When siblings Dan and Hayley Daley inherit their late grandmother’s derelict Victorian farmhouse, it seems like a dream come true. All they have to do is fix the place up and sell it for a tidy profit!Except—as anyone who has renovated an old house knows—things are never that easy.The walls are...
Who Sent Clement?
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
From the bestselling author of The '86 Fix, a miraculous tale of debts, threats, and a dead man in double denim. Beth Baxter, owner of a not-very-successful book shop, is planning her marriage to Karl — or, at least she was. Without warning, Beth suddenly finds herself embroiled in a sinister series...
Life... With No Breaks
AuthorNick Spalding
Nick Spalding tried to write a book in 24 hours. Turns out that’s impossible... it took 30!

He had a dull, drizzly weekend to kill, so made a start on the book he’d been promising to write all his life... and had it finished by midnight Sunday.

You’ll laugh out loud reading his odyssey...
Beyond Broadhall
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
The concluding installment of the acclaimed time-travel novel.
To read the first installment, search for 'The '86 Fix' on Amazon.

After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have...
Five Go On the Piste
AuthorGiles Curtis
Getting the gang back together to revisit their annual ski trip after ten years of recession and child-rearing seemed like a good idea to Will. But the manopause was approaching.
Judah’s whipping indiscretion with a young student has hit the headlines, and an ambulance patient has threatened...
Lust, Lies and Lemon Cakes Too: A Delicious Laugh Out Loud Comedy Sequel
AuthorSteven Morris
Eric Baxter doesn't ask for much. All he wants is to get his leg-over occasionally with his wife, Helen, and to lose enough weight to be able to see his genitals without having to hold his stomach out of the way.
So when Carol (the randy work colleague and fellow food lover) who almost seduced him the...
Flight of the Cuckoo
AuthorK.L. Smith
This is an alternative cover edition for ASIN: B00K9U3AGW

A funny novel of twists and turns, life, death, love, and of course.....revenge.

This is the dark but humourous tale of Sarah Pemberton, who is not a happy woman.
A down to earth, inventive soul who despises her stuck up...
Sex, Lies and Chocolate Cakes: A Delicious Laugh Out Loud Comedy
AuthorSteven Morris
ISBN1507858140
After accidentally exposing himself to his son’s girlfriend, and realising that because of his over-hanging stomach, she couldn’t actually see anything, Eric Baxter decides it’s time he went on a diet. Unfortunately, due to an exercise allergy, and an eating obsession, it isn’t going to...
Love...Under Different Skies
AuthorNick Spalding
ISBN1477849890
When Laura Newman is offered a senior position with an up-and-coming Australian chocolate company, she and her husband, Jamie, are in no place to turn it down.

After all, Jamie has just left his newspaper job after an epic meltdown, and Laura is slowly dying in her job with a soulless corporate...
Three Way
AuthorDaniel Grant
ISBN0992623200
TV news producer Ollie Hayward needs to get over his ex. Like right now.

When his editor sends him to interview a beautiful city trader, his luck might just have changed….

Then an old school friend shows up on Ollie’s doorstep and things get…complicated.

Three Way is...
Cuckoo's Nest
AuthorK.L. Smith
This is an alternative cover edition for ASIN: B00KD3VR6U

Volume two in 'The Cuckoo' series.

Sarah Pemberton's back, raising hell and wreaking havoc.

Despite desperately trying to be the demure lady of the manor, things don't quite go to plan.
Armed with her ever faithful...
Rhino Hunt
AuthorNick Higgins
Take one bored office worker. Add copious amounts of alcohol and three fun loving, conspiratorial friends.
Spice things up with a large handful of practical jokes.
Throw in a mysterious girl, a large twist of fate and a generous measure of guilt.
Combine with a long-standing feud, four...
Clawthorn
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
The third book in the bestselling Clement series
When the truth is locked in the past, best you pray for the right locksmith.
Just four months after Emma Hogan was born, her father was convicted of a heinous crime and sent to prison for life.

Forty-six years later, and now a London-based...
Wrong'un
AuthorKeith A. Pearson
Sir Charles Huxley, a former government minister, kept a dark secret — a secret he should have taken to the grave when he died in 1999. His son, William, now lives an uneventful life in his father’s shadow. A middle-aged bachelor, all he has to worry about is his seemingly pointless job as a backbench...
Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong
AuthorGina Kirkham
Meet Mavis Upton.

As mummy to 7-year old Ella, surrogate to far too many pets and with a failed marriage under her belt, Mavis knows she needs to make some life-changing decisions. It's time to strike out into the world, to stand on her own two feet … to pursue a lifelong ambition to become a Police...
A Very Unchristian Retreat
AuthorGiles Curtis
Apologies for the new censored front cover for the U.S market - the usual mayhem to be found inside...

Hugo has only himself to blame. The bookings in their holiday complex in France are few and Jan, his wife, is forced to organise a yoga week. She remains in Godalming, which leaves Hugo alone with...
Lifting the Lid
AuthorRob Johnson
There are some things people see in toilets that they wish they hadn’t. What Trevor Hawkins sees might even cost him his life.

When Trevor takes voluntary redundancy, he hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van in search of adventure with his disciplinarily challenged dog, Milly....
Love Among The Stars
AuthorNick Spalding
Sometimes, the hardest part of becoming a success is keeping a straight face...

Jamie & Laura Newman have recently become quite the successful - and mildly wealthy - couple, thanks to the fact they've managed to write a series of popular romantic comedies together. This has come as a complete...
George Pearly Is A Miserable Old Sod
AuthorSteven Primrose-Smith
From Amazon UK Best Selling author Steven Primrose-Smith comes his first novel, George Pearly Is A Miserable Old Sod.

Amazon UK reviews for Steven's first book, No Place Like Home, Thank God:

"A superb book I devoured in two days."
"This book made me laugh out loud."
"Great...
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