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Book Cover:  Complete Notes from Singapore: The Omnibus Edition
By Neil Humphreys

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

Humorous writing at its best. Appeals to both Singaporeans and  foreigners. Covers a broad range of topics about Singapore—something for Everyone.

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...

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

Humorous writing at its best. Appeals to both Singaporeans and  foreigners. Covers a broad range of topics about Singapore—something...
Published: 13/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789812616616
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The A-Z of Unfortunate Dogs
Adam Elliot has drawn his delightful 'A to Z of Unfortunate Dogs', with rhyming couplets to match.
Adam Elliot has drawn his delightful 'A to Z of Unfortunate Dogs', with rhyming couplets to match.
Published: 22/11/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9781926428291
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Strine: Text Classics
By Afferbeck Lauder & John Clarke

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!...




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...


Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921922329
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover: The Even More Complete Book of Australian Verse: Text Classics
By John Clarke

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...

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...

Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921922152
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  They're a Weird Mob: Text Classics
By Nino Culotta & Jacinta Tynan

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...

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...

Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921922183
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  UnAustralian of the Year: words and pictures by Bill Leak
By Bill Leak

'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.

'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...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844850
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Modern Manglish
By Neil James & Harold Scruby & Alan Moir

'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...





'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...



Published: 28/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844508
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Go the Fuck to Sleep: Go the F**k to Sleep
By Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes

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...

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...

Published: 06/07/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781921758843
RRP: $17.95
Book Cover:  Strine: The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder
By Afferbeck Lauder

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.

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...

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656804
RRP: $23.95
Book Cover:  Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
By Geoff Dyer

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...

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...

Published: 04/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656897
RRP: $23.95
Book Cover:  Are We Nearly There Yet? An Epic Saga of Courage Amidst Turmoil
By Alan Moir

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...

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...

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640667
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Best Australian Political Cartoons 2010
By Russ Radcliffe

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.

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...

Published: 01/12/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640759
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  If You Can't Stand the Heat
By Judy Horacek

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...

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...

Published: 27/09/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640025
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Strine: The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder
By Afferbeck Lauder

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...

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...

Published: 26/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520853
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Pocket Book of Boosh
By Julian Barratt & Noel Fielding

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...

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...

Published: 26/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520891
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Billy's Dictionary for Blokes
Until now there have only been two types of dictionaries. Big boring ones and pocket-sized boring ones, both about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. Billy Brownless knows a bit about words because he talks a lot so he's put pen to paper and written a useful dictionary.
Until now there have only been two types of dictionaries. Big boring ones and pocket-sized boring ones, both about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. Billy Brownless knows a bit about words because he talks a lot so he's put pen to paper and written a useful dictionary.
Published: 01/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921518805
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Undiplomatic Activities
By Richard Woolcott
International politics is a serious business. But, as Richard Woolcott shows in these witty reminiscences, the diplomatic world has more than its fair share of absurdity, and even high comedy.

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...

International politics is a serious business. But, as Richard Woolcott shows in these witty reminiscences, the diplomatic world has more than its fair share of absurdity, and even high comedy.

Required...

Published: 04/08/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921372315
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Tournament
By John Clarke

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 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...

Published: 05/01/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351990
RRP: $23.95
Book Cover: The Next Murray Whelan Trilogy
By Shane Maloney

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.

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...

Published: 05/01/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351914
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Sucked In
By Shane Maloney

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

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

Published: 07/04/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351440
RRP: $23.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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