Author has a personal connection to the WA wreck of the Alkimos, as the stories he recounts make clear.
Humour
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Auteur:KRAKOUER, RaySommaire: - Auteur:EGAN, TedSommaire:
Presents a selection of Ted Egan's hilarious, very true tales. This is classic, down-to-earth humour.
- Auteur:Jilly CooperSommaire:
At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the...
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Auteur:Lewycka, MarinaSommaire:A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries...
- Auteur:AYRES, PamSommaire:
These new poems are as outrageous, as wildly funny and as enormously enjoyable as those that made the author so vastly popular.
- Auteur:ELTON, BenSommaire:
A humorous account of how we would like to save the world by the marketing of a sexy consumer "Claustrosphere" which is a self-contained, tough eco-shelter for the domestic user. A global adventure of stupendous pace and...
- Auteur:MUIR, FrankSommaire:
A collection of the best of the `My Word!' stories, including `You can't have your kayak and heat it' and `Upon my word'.
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Auteur:HARRISON, KateSommaire:When self-confessed scaredycat Jo Morgan survives a hit and run accident, she realises she has beaten the odds. Maybe a bit of living dangerously is just what she needs. But unlearning a lifetime of fears and phobias won't be...
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Auteur:Adams, DouglasSommaire:If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the small...
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Auteur:LINDSAY, NormanSommaire:Bunyip Bluegum the koala sets out on his travels taking only a walking stick. At about lunchtime, feeling more than slightly peckish, he meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin who are eating a pudding. The pudding is...
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Auteur:ISLER, AlanSommaire:Cyril Entwistle, is a Yorkshireman, womaniser, egoist, world-class liar, and of late, controversial BBC talking head on almost any topic. He has chosen Stan Kops to write his biography.
- Auteur:Tim WintonSommaire:
Skeeta Anderson wakes up one Summer morning to find that part of him is gone, something he thought he'd never miss - his bum!
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Auteur:FINE, AnneSommaire:A dark, witty expose of family life. The Palmer sisters are close, and they all agree that loyalty to one another outweighs loyalty to lovers and husbands. And there are no secrets - not until now.
- Auteur:GLEITZMAN, MorrisSommaire:
The funny and exciting story of a kid who is allergic to cats and possibly her family as well.
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Auteur:HARRIS, RolfSommaire:Collection of funny, heartwarming and incredible animal stories.
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Auteur:AYRES, PamSommaire:Humorous anecdotes and poems by the well-loved English poet, Pam Ayres.
- Auteur:HAY, DonnaSommaire:
What do you do as a single parent when your kids don't want to share you with anyone else - except the person you least want? Story of love and families, and learning to live with the cards you've been dealt, and moving on...
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Auteur:ADAMS, DouglasSommaire:Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-...
- Auteur:ORKIN, Mark M.Sommaire:
- Auteur:KEILLOR, GarrisonSommaire:
In 1926 the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and found Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant. A comic yet poignant novel from one of America's most well-loved humorists...
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