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Aussie humour
By R. K Sadler, Hayllar, T. A. S. 1982
A bit of a dag: tales of a shearing gang
By Judy Harrison. 1985
A light-hearted look at the funny side of life in a shearing gang. For Judy, life with the gangs soon…
became second nature and she developed an intimate knowledge of their ways, sharing long hours on the board and the warmth of a shed full of sheep.Churchill, the end of glory: a political biography (Harvest Book Ser.)
By John Charmley. 1994
Churchill's grand alliance: the Anglo-American special relationship 1940-57
By John Charmley. 1995
Anastasia: the riddle of Anna Anderson
By Peter Kurth. 1986
Time and research have blurred my memory of the initial experience, but I do recall my mother remarking off-handedly, "You…
know that's a true story, don't you? Sort of..." Peter Kurth's search for "the truth" about Anastasia took him fifteen years, including ten years research and several trips to Europe.The thrilling true stories in this book include the wreck of the Batavia and its nightmarish aftermath, the cannibal convicts…
of Van Diemen’s Land, the penal death camps and an assortment of demented murderers. On a lighter note are such quirky ‘Ripping Yarns’ as the adventures of the fiery dancer Lola Montez and the story of the eccentric composer Percy Grainger - and his taste for flagellation.Laid back in Washington
By Art Buchwald. 1983
Selection of the author's syndicated newspaper columns, 1978-1980. The topics are broad, ranging from TV in the courts to the…
MX missile, from the Super Bowl to autograph hounds and the humorist - spares no one.Riddles ancient and modern
By Mark Bryant. 1983
Seen by many as a childish pastime, riddling was once a serious business. There have even been times when a…
man's life hung on his ability to answer a riddle successfully or to invent one that could not be solved.Modern love: the lives of John & Sunday Reed
By Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan. 2015
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle…
have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive generations of Australian artists and writers, whose works and personalities John and Sunday carefully curated to suit their artistic tastes and sexual passions. It is a story of rebellion against their privileged backgrounds and a bohemian existence marked by extraordinary achievements, intense heartbreak and enduring love, a remarkable partnership that changed all those who crossed the threshold into Heide and altered the course of art in Australia.Up the duff: the real guide to pregnancy
By Kaz Cooke. 1999
A humourous guide on how to prepare for pregnancy and the baby; crying, eating, weeing and working; blokes, bosoms, busybodies…
and bunny rugs; nausea and other 'side effects'; choosing an obstetrician and a midwife; tests; what they're like and who they're for; the best services and books on everything; stretchmarks; maternity and baby clothes; childbirth classes, travel, safety, baby names and how to be rude to complete strangers; childbirth and pain relief; what to expect in hospital; breastfeeding; what it's like with a newborn baby.A bunch of poesy
By Michael Leunig. 1992
In over sixty poems, the author looks at the fragility of all things wonderful. The book is divided into three…
sections: Life and circumstance; Doom and gloom; and Seasons and celebrations.Bedside cricket
By Christopher Martin-Jenkins. 1981
School days of a Methodist lady: a journey through girlhood
By Jill Sanguinetti. 2014
In 1958, Jill left her home in the Victorian town of Kyabram to attend Methodist Ladies' College (MLC) as a…
boarder. In this coming-of-age memoir she interleaves her MLC story with lively vignettes of her early school years, the family newsagency, church, and country community life. This is a deeply personal account of teenage struggles with parental and sibling relationships and with MLC's discipline, study demands, tough living conditions and rigorous religious education. Jill's daily life as a school boarder, her rebellions, emotional highs and lows, and encounters with Dr Wood, MLC's charismatic principal and pastor, are described with honesty, hilarity and sharp critical insight.A prescribed life: royalty, romance and medicine
By Tony Atkinson, Lynn Smailes. 2016
Tony Atkinson spent his early days suspended in a cage outside the sixth-storey window of his family home in 1920s…
London. So perhaps he was always destined to see the world differently, and to land in ridiculous, hilarious situations. There was the time he came between Winston Churchill and his bowel movements (an accident that required a parliamentary explanation) or the high-society shenanigans he witnessed after accidentally becoming footman to Queen Elizabeth. Tony and the love of his life came across the pond as 'ten-pound Poms'. While he forged a successful career as an anaesthetist, his greatest gift may be for telling rousing tales. A Prescribed Life is a warm and engaging chronicle about love, medicine and royalty spanning almost a century of great change.How to walk a puma: my (mis)adventures in South America
By Peter Allison. 2012
Not content with regular encounters with dangerous animals on one continent, Peter Allison decided to get up close and personal…
with some seriously scary animals on another. Unlike in Africa, where all Peter's experiences had been safari based, he planned to vary things up in South America, getting involved with conservation projects as well as seeking out 'the wildest and rarest wildlife experiences on offer'.From learning to walk - or rather be bitten and dragged along at speed by - a puma in Bolivia, to searching for elusive jaguars in Brazil, finding love in Patagonia, and hunting naked with the remote Huaorani people in Ecuador, How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America.Don't look behind you but...: tales from an African safari guide
By Peter Allison. 2009
It shouldn't be fun to be chased by an animal that outweighs you by a factor of seventy, but Peter…
Allison gets an odd thrill every time an elephant charges his beaten-up jeep or a peckish crocodile looks at him sideways. And now our favourite safari leader is back with more crazy, incredible, endearing and laugh-out-loud funny tales from his time guiding unsuspecting tourists through the African bush. By now you'd think he'd know his way around. You'd be wrong. From avoiding territorial hippos and half-starved lions to dodging landmines and getting lost on the unforgiving savanna, Peter Allison has had his fair share of close calls. Yet, despite a growing suspicion that it is trying very hard to kill him, he just can't shake his love of this remarkable land, its animals and its people.The inflammable Adams
By Phillip Adams. 1983
This jumble of history, philosophy and whimsy caters for interests, ranging from the sexuality of male tigers to the gravestones…
of Kew - "temperance, restraint and decorum are not strong points of our author" as Justice Kirby states in his foreword.Whatever you do, don't run: my adventures as a Botswana safari guide
By Peter Allison. 2007
Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit…
of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling, quickly and completely, in love with the country and its wildlife. Landing in a game reserve in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta, he became a safari guide and, some twelve years later, his short holiday in Africa isn't over yet. Whatever You Do, Don't Run is his guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Like the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more 'fashionable' hot pink ensemble, or the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it, there's not much in the African bush that Peter hasn't seen, photographed or been chased by.Laughing stock: one man's battle with sex, work and a son called Batboy
By Richard Glover. 1993
A selection of the author's best writing for the "Herald's" Agenda page. Glover poses as a "Sensitive New Age Guy"…
who regularly grills himself, ego and all. It's funny, and it's a living!