Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
$39.99 AUD
Category: Humour
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Humour
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
The Big Book of Dad Jokes: More Than 800 Unbearable, Groan-Inducing One-Liners, Puns, and Riddles to Make You the King of Subpar Comedy by Joe Kerz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Hundreds and Hundreds of Jokes that Will Drive Your Family Crazy Nothing is more hilarious for moms, sons, and daughters than the bad jokes dads tell. (Well, at least he thinks they're hilarious . . .) Have you ever noticed when you're out to dinner and your dad takes it upon himself to antagonize you ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$29.99 AUD
Category: Humour
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions: More of Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves by QI Elves
$22.99 AUD
Category: Humour
The perfect gift for the incurably curious.
488 Rules for Life - The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
RICHARD GLOVER: ''You won’t agree with all her rules – I, for one, am a great believer in the word “pash” – but there is a good laugh, and a lively argument, to be had on every page.'' 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Applying truth and wit to ...Show more
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
Aussie Talk: Australian Slang-uage: Sayings, Slang and Idiom, the Aussie way by Paul Bugeja
$17.99 AUD
Category: Humour
The Aussies use them every day, some of them more than others. They make their conversations colourful and interesting, loud and bright, rich and rare...and sometimes seemingly foreign or incomprehensible to visitors to their shores. They derive from a variety of cultural, historical and ethnic sources, ...Show more
Australian Slang by Anon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as ...Show more
Best Aussie Jokes: How to be the Life of the Party by Marguerite Marshall
$19.98 AUD
Category: Humour
With over 400 jokes to smile, giggle and laugh your way through, Best Aussie Jokes has a joke for nearly every occasion. Laughter is a powerful tonic for our physical and mental health and these jokes will ensure you become the life of the party. So get ready for a book full of belly laughs. A warning: ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2022 by Russ Radcliffe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Humour | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The twentieth-anniversary edition of this much-loved annual collection brings you the last year in politics, as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. 2022- the year we slapped ourselves on the back for a job well done, and put the last few awful years behind us.Well ...Show more
Betoota-isms by Betoota Advocate
$29.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Betoota-isms is a deep dive into Australian culture, invention and creativity with a complete record of 'English' as it is used from the Member's Box of the MCG to the change rooms of the Betoota Dolphins rugby league club. Discover the meaning of the Michelle Pfeiffer (the Pfizer). Identify, with conf ...Show more