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A nice night's entertainment: Sketches and monologues 1956-1981
Par Barry Humphries. 1981
Barry Humphries, Australia's master of satire, has entertained us since 1959. His myriad bizarre creations, led by Edna Everage, have…
peopled a host of one-man shows. Included in this book is a discography and a list of shows and books by Humphries.Game for anything: writings on cricket
Par Gideon Haigh. 2004
Cricket is serious fun. And no one writes about cricket with deeper knowledge or greater flair than Gideon Haigh. Game…
for Anything collects his best work of the last decade: from probing the Bradman myth and evaluating C.L.R. James to celebrating Len Pascoe and suffering being hit for six. To cricket's recent torments - match-fixing, throwing, sledging, politics - he brings fresh insights and an irreverent wit.Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages…
to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endurance and misadventure, survival and loss. Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered together a gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As Warren Fahey writes in his foreword, 'Some journeys, like those of Burke and Wills, Lasseter's First Find, and the razing of the riverboat Rodney, are relatively well known. Others, mostly unknown, are tales of bravado, determination and, sometimes, sheer madness.' From the comfort and safety of your armchair you can join some of Australia's bravest and also some of its most foolhardy men and women in their adventures.Voyage of the Southern Sun: an amazing solo journey around the world
Par Michael Smith, Aaron Patrick. 2017
Michael Smith spent 20 years restoring Melbourne’s beloved Sun Theatre and becoming one of Australia’s last independent cinema operators. He…
then set off on a rather different journey: to become the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane. With limited flying experience, no support team and only basic instruments in his tiny flying boat, the Southern Sun, Smith risked his life to make modern aviation history. His adventures include an unexpected greeting by Special Branch on his arrival in the UK, a near-death experience while leaving Greenland, and a wondrous journey up the Mississippi. In just seven months he made eighty stops around the globe, exploring twenty-five cities and communities, and visiting some seventy cinemas. All along the way Smith updated his online journal, cheered on by 50,000 followers. In 2016 he was named Australian Geographic's Adventurer of the Year.Why men are necessary and more news from nowhere
Par Richard Glover. 2010
Wickedly funny stories of everyday life, as heard on ABC Radio's Thank God It's Friday. Meet the sexy and feisty…
Jocasta; confront teenage rebellion in the form of a fish called Wanda; do battle with magpies the size of small fighter jets; try to work out which font you use when speaking the language of love; and find out what men really have to offer. In Richard Glover's stories, the day-to-day becomes vivid, magical and laugh-out-loud funny.Failure to understand Australia's unwritten laws can lead to embarrassment, shame, ridicule and even suicide. This book is a humorous…
look at the Australian psyche as it is a survival manual to those trying to fit into this society.Foot in mouth
Par Nigel Rees. 1982
It's not my fault they print them
Par Catherine Deveny. 2007
Each week in the pages of the Age, Catherine Deveny tackles the big issues of modern life with hilarity and…
passion and in her own inimitable style. From 4WD owners to Nick Giannopolous to women who take their husband’s name, Deveny isn’t backward about coming forward. It’s Not My Fault They Print Them collects Deveny’s funniest, most biting work, published and unpublishable (till now). It includes her views on elective caesareans, private education, McLeod’s Daughters, Sam Newman and much, much more.Say when
Par Catherine Deveny. 2008
In 2008 the Pope came to Sydney, petrol prices soared and Australia proudly became the fattest nation on earth. Big…
Brother got the chop, Sam Newman mauled a mannequin and the Logies were as wonderfully bad as ever. Thank goodness for Catherine Deveny. Always ready with a subversive aside or a provocative question, each week in the Age she brings her passionate, irreverent wit to bear on the big issues of the day. Say When collects Deveny's funniest, sharpest and most outrageous columns from the past year - and some unpublished work, as well.Easter Island: the mystery solved
Par Thor Heyerdahl. 1989
Heyerdahl returns to Easter Island to try to unravel the mystery of the haunting statues that stud the ancient island…
and to prove that early man travelled further and faster than previously expected.One wet season
Par Ion L Idriess. 1949
This book is set in Derby, in Australia's far north-west. When the stockmen congregate for the wet season some of…
the monotony of the long three months is relieved by yarning and relating incidents from the past.When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Par David Sedaris. 2008
David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to…
wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories.Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris's sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.Girt nation (The Unauthorised History of Australia #3)
Par David Hunt. 2021
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic…
tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan 'like sand before the gale'. And meet Catherine Helen Spence, the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions to prevent the 'Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for!' Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against the conventionally limbed. Gasp as Essendon Football Club trainer Carl von Ledebur injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles. Weep as Scott Morrison's communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia. And marvel at how Labor, a political party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power.Well hello: meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3
Par Annabel Crabb, Leigh Sales, Miranda Murphy. 2021
In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started…
a rambling conversation that's still going on (and on). From books to TV, music to cooking, friendship to films, there's little cultural terrain Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales haven't traversed in their oddly named but nonetheless wildly popular podcast Chat 10 Looks 3.Now, in their first book together, the pair takes a stroll through some of the issues of our time, offering advice for would-be writers, thoughts on developing a rich reading life, tips for navigating the perilous world of social media, and the secrets of a great friendship, all with the digressions that listeners of their podcast have come to love. Here Crabb and Sales discuss kindness, success and failure, and not taking yourself - or others - too seriously, with a liberal sprinkling of fairy wrens, granny pants, show tunes, creative insults, diabolical mum bags and CLANGs.Whether you're a devoted listener of Chat 10 Looks 3, curious as to what all the fuss is about, or simply looking to cry-laugh on public transport, Well Hello is the book for you.Living legends: true tales of extraordinary old-timers
Par Sandy Thorne. 2014
Meet fifteen remarkable Australian (and one Kiwi!) jacks and jills of all trades with a wealth of experiences from the…
good old days to modern times. Hailing from all walks of life, they share their memories with renowned yarn spinner Sandy Thorne in a collection of stories full of wisdom and wit. There's Danny, the champion jockey who refuses to ever truly hang up the saddle; 'Dusty', the WW II rear gunner who survived thirty raids over Germany; and Dot, the seemingly dainty 97-year-old who was once a bullocky's offsider. Then there's Bob, who's been a truckie, fighter, croc-wrestler and lotto winner; Doris, the once hard-toiling dairy farmer who's as chirpy as a willy-wagtail; and Roy, the Vietnam vet turned world-class waterskier. Between them, the characters in this book have survived the Depression, seen world wars come and go and witnessed monumental changes in everyday life. There's comedy and courage in their adventures, as well as tales of triumph over adversity. Through their stories, Sandy finds the elements that make up the classic Australian character: a no-nonsense, never-give-up approach that means these people are still firing on all cylinders in their eighties and nineties, and truly embody what it means to be a living legend.How to kiss a crocodile: and other snappy stories (Max Walker's How To ...)
Par Max Walker. 2007
Max Walker, famous Australian sportsman, broadcaster and co-host of Channel 9's "Wide World of Sports"has a philosophy of looking for…
what he recalls the lighter, richer side of life. This outlook is reflected in these humorous anecdotes.Growing old outrageously: a memoir of travel, food and friendship
Par Hilary Linstead. 2012
Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more…
exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they will get along, the eccentric pair embark on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative beginning has turned into a series of wonderfully unusual holidays, and Hil and Liz have been circumnavigating the globe ever since. Among many other destinations, they have taken in Marrakech, Fez and the Atlas Mountains; Patagonia and the Galapagos Islands; Istanbul and Cappadocia. They've been on safari in Namibia, Botswana and the Serengeti, attended music festivals in Naples and Prague and made a pilgrimage to the western isles of Mull and Iona. Along the way they have encouraged, enraged and entertained each other, while living through countless adventures.King: the life and comedy of Graham Kennedy
Par Graeme Blundell. 2003
Graham Kennedy, the King of Comedy, reigned over Australian television for forty years as talk-show host, game-show presenter and iconoclastic…
jester. He shared the microphone with Nicky Whitta on Melbourne’s favourite radio program, Nicky and Graham, in the 1950s, then went on to become the shining light of Australian TV, hosting In Melbourne Tonight, Blankety Blanks and Coast to Coast. Looking for a new challenge, Graham Kennedy moved into films and starred in Don’s Party and The Club among others. Graeme Blundell traces the career of the star from working-class Melbourne, who tilted Australia’s television to an unforgettable angle with his disrespectful buffoonery, then mysteriously disappeared into the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.Mr. Ding's chicken feet: on a slow boat from Shanghai to Texas
Par Gillian Kendall. 2006
Gillian Kendall's adventure begins with a flier and a help-wanted ad: "English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher Needed." Intrigued,…
she answers the ad and soon finds herself accompanying a cruise from Shanghai to Galveston, Texas, teaching ESL en route to Chinese seamen, ship's officers, and mechanical engineers. And that's just the beginning! English lessons, of course, are only part of the story. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.The gift of the gab
Par Barry Dickins. 1981