What's So Bloody Funny?

What's So Bloody Funny?
Author: Tim Galbraith
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2024-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1039170242

Dylan Davis is a funny guy, but his regular standup gig at the Carney Chop Shop doesn’t pay for more than a crummy car and a crummier apartment, and the club owner Dimitri is always telling him he’s not that good. So Dylan tends to forget about his worries by drinking, gambling, and going to strip clubs, which he knows can get a guy into trouble. In fact, he’s already about fifty grand in debt to the mob from a backroom poker game. But bad as that is, Dylan has never dreamed how much worse it could get. One night, he steps into save a stripper he’s got a crush on from a thug who’s harassing her, and what happens next makes him wonder if it might actually be wrong to do the right thing. In very short order, Dylan finds himself a reluctant mob killer, which sounds terrible but it pays really well. And suddenly he’s got a cool car, a great girl, a cute dog, a club of his own...and a whole lot of people out to get him. A witty, sexy mob comedy for the ages, What’s So Bloody Funny? explores the great dichotomy between making the right decision for the wrong reasons and making the wrong decision for the right reasons.

Up a Hollow Log

Up a Hollow Log
Author: R.M. Winn
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1742531091

Master storyteller Ryle Winn learnt his craft in the backblocks, experimented with it in the public bar and honed it in between musters and sale yards. In this third collection of true tales, animals rather than people take centre stage – with a tip of the hat to Henry Lawson's much-loved story 'The Loaded Dog'. Meet a ute full of wayward working dogs, a pesky bush turkey determined to outsmart its landlady, a rogue circus elephant staking a claim on the road and an orphan pig with a message for the world. You'll bust a gut laughing, you'll be left incredulous, you might even shed a tear or two. But most of all, you'll be glad you took the time to join Ryle Winn in celebrating man's best friend – and other creatures from the bush and beyond. Praise for Ryle Winn's stories: 'Ryle Winn has an engaging, racy style. Not many have the ability to record a yarn the way it was told and lose nothing in the translation, or even make it better.' Colin Thiele 'This book is a lot like sitting around a campfire and, listening to a bush character recount tales of life on the land.' South Coast Register

The Slap

The Slap
Author: Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1554688396

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.

Fighter Pilot

Fighter Pilot
Author: Mac 'Serge' Tucker
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1743318707

Sit down and strap yourself in for an exhilarating ride to the sound barrier and beyond with a real life Topgun!

Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club

Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club
Author: Julian Leatherdale
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1760873586

Murder and blackmail, family drama and love, all set within the shady underbelly of 1930s Kings Cross and its glamorous fringe. 'Crime's not a woman's business, Joanie. It's not some bloody game.' In the murky world of Kings Cross in 1932, aspiring crime writer Joan Linderman and her friend and flatmate Bernice Becker live the wild bohemian life, a carnival of parties and fancy-dress artists' balls. One Saturday night, Joan is thrown headfirst into a real crime when she finds Ellie, her neighbour, murdered. To prove her worth as a crime writer and bring Ellie's killer to justice, Joan secretly investigates the case in the footsteps of Sergeant Lillian Armfield. But as Joan digs deeper, her list of suspects grows from the luxury apartment blocks of Sydney's rich to the brothels and nightclubs of the Cross's underclass. Death in the Ladies' Goddess Club is a riveting noir crime thriller with more surprises than even novelist Joan bargained for: blackmail, kidnapping, drug-peddling, a pagan sex cult, undercover cops, and a shocking confession. From the shadows of bohemian and underworld Kings Cross, who will emerge to tell the real story?

Ben, In the World

Ben, In the World
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061967874

Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction been portrayed with such raw power and righteous anger. Few, if any, living writers can have explored so many forbidding fictional worlds with such passion and conviction. — Kirkus Reviews The poignant and tragic sequel to Doris Lessing's bestselling novel, THE FIFTH CHILD. At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale.

Ji Mantriji

Ji Mantriji
Author: Monisha Shah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2001
Genre: Cabinet officers
ISBN: