Penguin Books Australia

A page a day keeps the doctor away!

In a world of war, woes and worries, this little volume is at least as good as valium. Read the pages aloud or tear them out and eat them. You'll feel them doing you good.

Were Freud and Jung alive today, they'd promote Pocket Jokes as the perfect therapy.

Recommended by nine out of ten dentists – because it encourages dazzling smiles!

But please do not open...

Have you heard the one about . . .

If not, you're sure to find it (and many more) in this collection of popular jokes, particularly if you don't mind if it's occasionally sexist, ageist, blondest or politically incorrect.

Dip in and join Dad'n Dave shooting roos out back of Bourke; Pollies pontificating in parliament; an Italian dingo looking for a fresh feed; or a bunch of hapless lawyers doing just...

This book is to the joke what a telephone directory is to the phone number. No taxi has been left unturned, no dunny wall unread, no pub unvisited in rounding up these funnies. The result is a naughtier, even more notorious volume than the bestselling Penguin Book of Australian Jokes . Of course, you should be reading serious fiction or uplifting works of theology – but if you don't mind feeling...

A huge collection of jokes of all kinds that make Australia's younger generation laugh, a mixture of innocence and silliness (with just a bit of naughtiness) that the whole family can enjoy.

The River is a passionate account of the Pages River (a branch of its big sister, the Hunter River) that flows through the author's property, Elmswood, near Scone, New South Wales.

Besides participating in the river's ups and downs – its mighty floods and stagnant exhaustion during drought – Patrice Newell follows the political, community and environmental twists and turns that are so crucial...