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We are Farrago! - dedicated to publishing the best in entertaining humorous fiction. Farrago is an imprint of Duckworth Books Group, an independent publishing house dedicated to great reads.

12/06/2025

Two Strangers. Two Londons. Two Hearts That Won’t Stop Beating… 🖤🐉💘

It’s paperback publication day for ‘CURSED UNDER LONDON’ by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch.

When two men are thrown together by the curse of immortality in a magical version of Elizabeth London, they are drawn into a dark plot that threatens to upend the world as they know it, all the while trying not to fall in love...

05/06/2025

Happy publication day to DEATH AND BOULES, the next instalment in the bestselling Follet Valley Mystery series by 🔍👏

Richard Ainsworth’s adopted French home town is in the middle of a huge celebration. Events are planned, a huge brocante and the centrepiece, an exhibition boules tournament between the two towns.

Everything is going well, the sun shines and the wine flows until the local mayor turns up dead - having apparently been killed twice.

Richard and local detective Valérie have very different views on the subject and engage in their own battle: who will solve the crime first?

Out now!

02/06/2025

🥐🤭📚Only a few days to go until DEATH AND BOULES, the new unputdownable cosy murder mystery by 👏

29/05/2025

An Arctic cruise, ice-cold chaos and relationships on ice! ❄️🛳️🥶

Happy publication day to THE ENDS by Tom Shakespeare - ‘a book with a heart as big as an iceberg’, Oskar Jensen 👏

When Fred and Nel head off on an Arctic cruise for Fred’s fortieth birthday, the last thing they expect are Fred’s scrabble-crazy aunts, a climate change-denying American oilman, an eco protest and a ravenous polar bear showing up to spoil the fun!

Will they make it through the ice and back? Or will things heat up out of control before they know it? 😬

Available in all good bookshops now!

28/05/2025

What an evening celebrating the launch of THE ENDS by Tom Shakespeare 👏

This sequel to THE HA-HA, for lovers of PG Wodehouse, follows a darkly comic cruise to the end of the Earth with a diverse set of characters.

Out tomorrow!

16/05/2025

The feeling of publishing your first children’s book ! 🙌

We launched TEACHERS VS ALIENS VS THE KIDS at and it was officially SLIME-CERTIFIED and OUT OF THIS WORLD. 🌍 👽

Huge thanks to Rob from for being an absolute star and a top-tier host.

The book is out now! Perfect for kids aged 5+ who enjoy laughter and pure chaos!

Grab a copy… or risk being booger-ice-cubed. (You’ve been warned.)

22/02/2025

It’s 25% off preorders at online for these two very exciting titles by two brilliant authors and comedians, and !

Code PREORDER25

Offer ends Monday evening.

03/12/2024

Did someone say Christmas cosy crime? 🎅🏼🕵️‍♂️

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A special Christmas story from the author of bestselling murder mystery ‘Death & Croissants’ - the perfect stocking stuffer!

20/11/2024

Just in time for festive season, the purr-fect book to get your paws on 🐾💙🎄

‘The Ghost of Christmas Paws’ by is out now! Join Hettie and Tilly as they set out on a dangerous case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. Will they save the day and get home in time for Christmas dinner?

18/09/2024

Recommendation of the day👍🏽✅

Are you in the mood for a purrrr-fect mystery book? Well look no further. Join Hettie and Tilly on this detective adventure! 🐱🐱👀👀

📖As the Town’s annual flower and produce show approaches, it’s all doom and bloom up on the allotments. Prize vegetables are going missing and a dead body is found fertilizing Bonny Grub’s onion patch. Baronial landowner Fluff Wither-Fork is beside herself and calls in the No. 2 Feline Detective Agency.

Who is trying to sabotage the scarecrow competition? And will Hettie Bagshot and her sidekick Tilly get to the bottom of this murky compost heap before judgement day arrives? Amid a sea of binder twine and raised beds, a spiteful killer cat is on the prowl. Who will be next, as the allotment community shake in their wellington boots?

01/08/2024

🥳Happy Publication Day🥳

When Combe Tollbridge opens its doors to visitors, its colourful residents realise all too late what trouble it can bring to their sedate village life...

Combe Tollbridge, on the Exmoor coast, is a quiet fishing village always happy to welcome visitors for the sake of the local economy, but when an irritating journalist looks like staying overtime, a dine-and-dash couple plays tricks in the neighbourhood, and a family with more than one secret to hide features in the national news, the mixed blessing that is tourism becomes all too clear.

Meanwhile Professor Tolliday visits the coastal village for the first time in fifty years with his family. The once irresponsible student has come back to make belated amends, but it is his mischievous little granddaughter whose holiday fun causes the most trouble for the village.

31/07/2024

Have you listened to Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Monocle yet? Well now is your chance !! 🩷🩷

🎙️For years, author and satirist Gabby Hutchinson Crouch has scoured the week’s news for material to use on the programmes in BBC Radio 4’s Friday-night topical slot, ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘Newzoids’. She has also written for ‘Horrible Histories’, the Bafta-winning children’s series inspired by ‘Blackadder’ and ‘Monty Python’. She discusses her latest book, the first in a new ‘historical romantasy’ series, and is quizzed by a ‘Horrible Histories’ enthusiast.

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We are Farrago - dedicated to publishing the very best humorous fiction. We publish fiction to make you smile, with books that tickle your funny bone. We make sure that, once you’ve found one funny book, there’s a whole series to enjoy. You can trust us to bring you new series to keep the laughter going all year long. Watch this space to find out about new books, special offers, events and the latest Farrago mischief. Farrago is an imprint of the Duckworth Books Group, an independent publishing house dedicated to great reads.