Katherine Parkinson

Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies. Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped to his belt. Into their life of 'users', pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a spunky can-do career gal who doesn't know one end of a laptop from another. Can Jen introduce real life to the guys who email...

There are reasons the IT Department of Reynholm Industries is kept in the building's basement. The department's employees are bitter slacker Roy, über-nerd Moss, and technically clueless Jen. Jen finds that her builder is urinating in all of her sinks; Moss has begun to speak like a manly football fan; Roy is now living on the streets; Reynholm will have a new Employee Of The Month; Friendface's horror needs to be stopped; charity calendars may feature...

"Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and his best friend, Jax, are a legendary comedic duo in waiting, with a plan to take their act all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe. But when Jax dies, Norman decides the only fitting tribute is to perform at the festival himself. The problem is, Norman's not the funny one. Jax was. There's also another, far more colossal objective on Norman's new plan that his single mom, Sadie, wasn't ready for: he wants to find the...

In the thirty-first Discworld novel the Discworld goes to war. Trousers. That's the secret... Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: idiots! Get yourself some trousers! Women belong in the kitchen -- everyone knows that. Not in jobs, pubs or indeed trousers, and certainly not on the front line, braving enemy forces in defence of their country. Then again, there's always a war on somewhere,...

As Sam arrives at the synth settlement, Max reveals who betrayed them, and the members of the settlement are forced to choose sides. With Mia in custody, Laura suffers a crisis of conscience, and Niska continues her investigation with a new ally.

Laura brings the members of the commission to visit the synth settlement, hoping to inspire understanding between the two groups, but Max worries about what Agnes might do. Mia receives a surprise visitor, and Niska follows a new lead in her search for the perpetrator of the bombing.

Laura helps pass legislation to prevent human attacks on synths, but the victory is short-lived when Joe brings home Sam, the synthetic child. Because of the new protections, Max decides to open the gates to the settlement, and Mia finds more supporters.

After the police raid, Niska and Mia leave the settlement to rescue a group of synths who were stranded while trying to cross the border. To her disgust, Laura is assigned a domestic orange-eyed synth for protection after agreeing to join the government commission on synths.