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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Looking for a laugh? Look inside. The all-time most disgusting jokes are here! We've gathered 1001 of them. Some of the jokes will raise a smile. Some of the jokes will make you giggle. Some of the jokes may even make you groan. There are jokes in here that will have you in stitches and jokes in here that will have you in tears. Promise.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.If you are new to Australia, it is possible that you cannot yet tell a ringer from a ring-in, a cockatoo from a galah, a blue from a bluey. When somebody says, 'Hullo, y'old bastard,' do you take offence? If on the other hand you hear yourself referred to as 'that bastard', can you afford to be complacent? John O'Grady, whose racy mastery of Australian idiom has enlivened all his books from They're a Weird Mob on, has now compiled a phrase-book of slang expressions and their find shades of meaning. The result is uniquely funny and uniquely Australian. To read Aussie English is a naturalization ceremony in itself. 'Blokes', 'bludgers', 'blow-ins' and 'bottlers' - they are all here, with their counter-parts down the alphabet.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.AUSTRALIAN PUBS is the result of a "25,000-mile pub crawl" embarked upon by Melbourne columnist John Larkins and photographer Bruce Howard. Their journey began one warm Sunday afternoon at Silverton, near Broken Hill, and ended twelve months and many hangovers later at the new Wrest Point Casino in Hobart under the shadow of snow-capped Mount Wellington.They drank in all kinds of pubs, from the little tin shanty in the outback, where the tumbleweed bounces past the ever-open door, to the dim cocktail bar in the city where lovers whisper. They found one pub built from bricks made by ants; another so violent that the licensee lives behind a barbed wire fence and hardly dares enter the bar without his German Shepherd dog; and yet another which is so lavish that it has Sidney Nolan originals in the foyer, a mirror from Mussolini's palace, enough caviar on hand to feed a Cossack regiment,… Read More

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Meet Elizabeth: young, witty, artistic, fun...and dead!Elizabeth sucks at being a spiritual guide. She messed up again. Her latest client on Earth plunges to an early death after a skydiving accident which was not meant to happen. So Elizabeth, along with fellow incompetent spiritual guides (Gypsy - an old hippie, Rebecca - a young professional woman with a corporate brain and a scaly Lizard from the dinosaur era), have 2 weeks to redeem themselves or sacrifice their freedom by being banished to the "in-between" life. Their mission - To unite Cameron and Kym.Cameron: A truck driver with an anger problem - Loves cats, lives alone and hates birds; of the feathery kind.Kym: A plain Jane florist shop owner - suffers severely from allergies, lives in a granny flat behind her best friend's place and has a passion for caged birds.Two heartbroken souls destined to be together in… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Alas, confesses Peter Luck, he's broken that rule many times. One of the country's top producers and presenters, Luck also writes the wise and witty '5th Column', which has graced the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald for more than five years.The Best of Luck comprises Luck's most entertaining television articles from the '5th Column'. Luck gives a colourful and humorous view of the people and programmes that make up the Aussie brand of TV.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Peachment's imagined Caravaggio, while still a child, overhears his parents discussing one of his sketches, and realizes he has a talent which sets him apart from the world. He leaves family and home for ever to map out a solitary traveller's life.Caravaggio became a revolutionary of his time, a rebellious and dangerous man to know, a man governed by his genius, his indiscriminate sexual appetite and his murderous rage. He was sought far and wide in the late-Renaissance world for his art. And there was a price on his head for at least one murder.This is Caravaggio's confession, told in humorous, blasphemous, often brutal prose, which cleverly beguiles the reader into understanding the art that was so celebrated and the life that caused so much outrage.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Picking up on a throwaway line in The Magic Mountain, Pawel Huelle tells the story of Hans Castorp's student years in Gdansk, long before the adventures described in Thomas Mann's novel. Huelle skilfully creates this influential period in the shy Hans Castorp's life, imaging what happened when he was exposed to the passionate and unruly eastern edge of the Prussian empire. He meets people, events and ideas that anticipate some of the encounters he will experience in years to come, including an enigmatic Polish woman who will become his obsession.Set in the dawn of the twentieth century, Castorp captures the atmosphere of central Europe as the storm began that would lead to two world wars. Full of humour, mystery and eccentricity, this moving novel shows people aware of being caught in history's capricious grip.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Kathleen is facing old age alone. Between her selfish children - 'Brain' and his straying wife, and daughter Shamrock and Shamrock's hubby the 'Big Developer' - there is no longer a place for her. But Passing Downs Old People's Home is still not the place for a woman like Kathleen. She is not ready for that and they're not ready for her.'I've skipped the grandma years,' Kathleen said. 'The four ages of women: bimbo, breeder, baby-sitter, burden...I've cut and run. Wasn't going to tell a soul but I've decided cutting and running is what it's all about.'

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An all-new collection of gene-pool belly flopsMost people don't need a PHD to know that doing chin-ups off the edge of a seventh-floor balcony is a recipe for disaster. Or that it's a bad idea to put a paintball gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Or to think twice before joyriding in a shopping cart strapped to a four-wheel drive. Darwin Award winners lack this basic sound judgement.Named for Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards celebrate those who have dived headfirst into the shallow end of the gene pool. From offering a bear a beer to self-testing a Taser to jumping a drawbridge on a bike, The Darwin Awards V: Next Evolution honours these macabre and entertaining feats of hapless misjudgement.Fully illustrated and with over a hundred new awe-inspiring tales, including science essays from guest writers and answers to FAQs about evolution in action, The… Read More

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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Francis Plug author and residential gardener, is hoping to learn the public-appearance secrets of successful writers. Francis himself is not currently successful as a writer. Or a gardener. But he wants desperately to join the ranks of the bookish.Perhaps a shambolic tour of the literary circuit in a welter of empty glasses, dodgy microphones and bemused authors will be the break he needs.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Scribe from the ScrubKeith Garvey was born at Frog Hollow, Moree, the youngest son of an Irish-born grazier. His mother was a bullock-driver's daughter of convict stock. When he was seven the family moved to the small village of Pallamallawa, where he has lived ever since. He has been a shearer, drover, bush-worker, horse-trainer, bookmaker, cattle-dealer and horse breaker. Always a keen reader, his heroes were "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson, the latter who he describes as "the Messiah of the working classes, whose pen spoke for the underdog always". Dick Welsh, a young talent scout for the A.B.C. Radio advised him to write about the outback he knows so well. His tall stories are well known on the country A.B.C. programme, Australia All Over, and are soon to be published in a book titled "My Uncle Harry", followed by "Shout For The Adder", in which characters contained in "The Funny… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.John Biddle is a very ordinary, some might even say boring, man. His daily life is regulated by an unvarying routine. During the week he commutes by train every morning from Asham to South Suburbia, where he works for a large insurance company, and back again in the evening. At weekends he visits the supermarket, cleans and tidies his modest house, attempts (without much success) to impose order on his garden, and either watches television or goes to the pub with friends. Every day he records in his diary the delays (or absence thereof) on his journey to and from work. He finds a wry amusement in the surge he observes in the use of mobile phones by passengers whenever their trains are delayed: 'Hello, it's me: I'm on a train. We're held up: I'll be late...', etc.Then, one day, events lead him to suspect a sinister connection between the hold-ups on the railways and the… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe altered at checkout.Last November there appeared in Paris a little book called La Vie Anglaise, by Tony Mayer, of the French Embassy here in London. What sort of book was it? You can easily imagine: a sketch of Britain and the British as observed by a witty Frenchman who, unlike his predecessors at the game, had lived among us for many years. And lived among us to good purpose, noticing everything: our weather (naturally), our food (even more naturally), our clothes, our drinks, our tobacco; how we are born, how we get married, how we fall ill, how we die; our education; our music, ballet, theatre, cinema, radio, "dancings"; our royal family; or parties; above all, our conversation. Nor had our sexual characteristics escaped him...Tremendous fun, the whole thing - every bit as much when we say "What's the fellow talking about?" as when we say "Splendid!"We can remember no other instance of such an immediate… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.We've all dreamt about it, but for Cleo Dowling the dream becomes a reality. Lucky Cleo comes into serious money and takes herself off to the pretty village of Kilrowan in the west of Ireland to write a novel. But what happens when she loses the plot and becomes obsessed with her sexy neighbour?Dannie Moore's love life has always been complicated - and Dannie has the knack of complicating things even more. When film director Jethro Palmer chooses Kilrowan as the location for a blockbuster movie, the effect on her life is cataclysmic.Deirdre O'Dare leaves her husband Rory behind in LA to accompany her friend, movie star Eva Lavery, to Kilrowan. When the cat's away and all that...but which is the cat? Deirdre or Rory? And although Deirdre is writing Eva's biography, it would appear that the actress is not telling the truth, the whole truth...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'No, forgive and forget,' say your friends.So you think you'll ring the new couple and tell them how happy you are for them. Four o'clock in the morning would be a good time - at ten-minute intervals. For the next six months.This is Wendy Harmer's Classic Manual for the Love-Lost, A How-Not-To Guide for the Brokenhearted.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the late 80's and early 90's, Stephen Fry had, you might say, 'made it'. Loved for his roles in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, acclaimed for his novel The Liar and surrounded by a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, Stephen discovered that success gave him a taste for excess. Plunging into the high life, he blazed brightly in public and partied unashamedly in private - insensible of the ball which inevitably lay ahead. How had Stephen - so driven to create and entertain - lost his way?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Welcome to Lomaverde - a new Spanish utopia for those seeking their place in the sun. Now a ghost town where feral cats outnumber the handful of anxious residents. A place of empty pools, long afternoons and unrelenting sunshine.Here, widowed Midlands bus driver Dermot Lynch turns up one bright morning. He's come to visit his son Eamonn and his girlfriend, Laura. Except Eamonn never opened Dermot's letter announcing his trip. Just like he can't quite get out of bed, or fix anything, or admit Laura has left him.Though neither father nor son knows quite what to make of the other, Lomaverde's Brits - Roger and Cheryl, Becca and Ian - see in Dermot a shot of fresh blood. Someone to enliven their goat-hunting trips, their paranoid speculations, the endless barbecuing and bickering.As Dermot and Eamonn gradually reveal to one another the truth about why each left home, both get… Read More

In good condition - dust jacket good slight markings - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is the 'Weird Mob' of Samoa. It is as irresistibly funny and appealing as the same author's Nino Culotta stories (They're a Weird Mob and Cop This Lot) - the most talked-about best-sellers Australia has ever seen.Ioane Papatiso (it means John the Baptist, and you say the first name 'Yo-ah-nay') is a small Samoan who is always in big trouble. He never starts any trouble, but whenever there is a free-for-all in his village, or things go wrong in a big way, you can always say that if he had not been present the trouble would not have happened.Ioane has a big brain, and he means well. It is strange that anyone so well-meaning should have to go to the police station so often. But then it is not everyone who wanders out of hospital still wearing hospital pyjamas; and it is not everyone whose home-brew lays out his guests all over the plantation. Ioane is not popular with the… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Lizzie Prain lives a quiet life in a cottage in Surrey. She likes to cook. She loves her dog. And she has been married to Jacob for far too long. No one has seen Jacob for a few days. That's because Lizzie snapped last Monday and killed him. Over the course of the following month, with no other option at hand and no income, Lizzie will use her best skill-cooking-to dispose of Jacob. When she finds unexpected kinship with an isolated misfit, she will be tested: Will Lizzie confess or will her new friend be an unwitting accessory to her crime? Dark, unexpectedly funny, and achingly human, SEASON TO TASTE is a novel about the definitive end of a marriage, and it's very strange aftermath.