Penguin Books Australia

An all-in-one collection of Neil Humphrey's Best-selling trilogy 

An all-in-one collection of Neil Humphrey's trilogy : Notes from an even Smaller Island , Scribbles from the Same Island and Final Notes from a Great Island...

Do you sign on the dotted lion?
Is your tea nature Orpheus rocker?
Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'?

There was never any book about Australian speech like Strine or about posh British speech like Fraffly Well Spoken . This edition includes all four Afferbeck Lauder books, with a new foreword by John Clarke.

These pages are full of mare chick momence. Tiger look and start torgon Strine!...

For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the world's most famous poets were actually Australians.

Possibly the most important anthology ever published. The definitive collection featuring key works by such famous Australian poets as Gavin Milton, Arnold Wordsworth, Sylvia Blath, Very Manly Hopkins, R.A.C.V. Milne and...

Who the hell's Nino Culotta. That's what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, wasn't it? Well I'm Nino Culotta. My father baptised me Giovanni—John—well Giovannino is like Johnny, and Nino is an easier way of saying it. Or a lazier way, if you like.

Just off the boat from Italy—the north—Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he's never...

'Freedom of speech is the freedom to offend and that means the freedom to offend anyone.'

— Bill Leak

A new collection of the art and observations of cartoonist, painter and all-round contrarian—the incomparable Bill Leak.

'It's dog eat dog in this rat race.'
'We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.'
'I hope to come first or second, or at least win it.'

The information superhighway brings more text to our door than ever before.  It's just that most of it gets mangled along the way.

Twenty years ago, Harold Scruby's Manglish became an instant bestseller.  This version expands on the consummate mangles of...

Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for...

It was Professor Afferbeck Lauder who made the groundbreaking discovery that Australians speak Strine—not English, as had long been thought. He revealed his findings in a little book called Let Stalk Strine , an instant classic and—as John Clarke writes in his Ford—a publishing phenomenon.

Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spell-binding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city.
Another city, another assignment: this time on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi. Amid the crowds, ghats and chaos of India's...

Alan Moir is one of Australia's wittiest and most insightful political cartoonists, and in this superb new collection, Are We Nearly There Yet?, he dissects the new Labor era in his own inimitable way.

From Kevin Rudd's extraordinary election victory over John Howard in 2007 to the election of 2010, Moir tells the story of this change from conservative governments to, well, slightly less conservative...

2010 has been a year of reversals. At the start Kevin Rudd, the conscience of decent folk everywhere, was still enjoying an unprecedented run of popularity in the polls. Meanwhile, the Liberals were fast becoming a reactionary rabble who, after sacrificing most of their leadership talent, were left with only a mad monk to guide them out of the wilderness.

Judy Horacek's beautiful and brilliantly funny observations are modern icons perfectly distilling the absurdities, foibles and the dilemmas of contemporary life. Ranging from the minutiae of daily living to larger scale global and environmental issues, her cartoons celebrate human creativity and resilience and are permeated with a concern for justice and a desire for laughter.

If You Can't Stand the...

How's your ebb tide?

Do you sign on the dotted lion?

Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker?

Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'?

Here, collected in one volume, are Afferbeck Lauder's groundbreaking studies of Australian speech,  Let Stalk Strine and Nose Tone Unturned .  Also included are Fraffly Well Spoken and Fraffly Suite , Lauder's guide to the strangled dialect of the English...

Join us on a journey through space and time . . . This autumn Canongate invites you to join Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Naboo, Bollo, Bob Fossil, Old Gregg, the Moon and all your other favourite characters on a unique journey in to the world of The Mighty Boosh.

Incredibly funny, visually dynamic, surreal, musical, wildly creative . . . 'The Mighty Boosh' is unlike anything else on television, and this...

Required not only to sacrifice a settled home and family life in the service of their country, diplomats must also heroically offer up their livers to booze, their stomachs to endless official dinners, their...

The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Albert Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and Van Gogh are also in the top rankings.

World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 players-everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco Chanel - fight it out until the exhilarating final on centre court.

John Clarke, Australia's best-loved comedian, the inventor...

The Big Ask
A disastrous election result is looming, and Murray's days as a political minder seem numbered. With a runaway son on his hands, the police at his heels, and a gun buried in the backyard, Murray Whelan faces his toughest test yet.

Now pushing fifty, Murray Whelan is spinning his wheels in parliament - a toothless cog in Labor's stalled political machine.