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Australia's oldest and favourite newspaper dissects the last decade of political turmoil and cultural frustrations that turned us all against each other, and how we broke down those walls of division to come together again. This is our country's coming of age story. How good. It's been a tough few years. We've had three prime ministers in four years, a...

Wild imagination meets biting satire in this bestselling Calvin and Hobbes collection, where Calvin’s antics with Hobbes and endless alter egos push childhood adventure and comic brilliance to dazzling new heights. Calvin’s imagination soars in Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, covering November 1992 to August 1993. Rosalyn returns for legendary babysitting showdowns, Calvin’s rivalry with Susie intensifies, and alter egos like...

New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy, a feel-good YA graphic novel romance about a hot-headed hockey player who asks for temper management lessons from the cool, calm boy in drama club — perfect for fans of Heartstopper! It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her...

Ask a man to marry you and the rest is a walk in the park. When Gaby springs a proposal on Jack, he is happy to say yes. The only problem is their wedding needs to take place in three months' time. No problem, right…? The residents of the village that they live in love the idea, delighted at the...

An absent boyfriend and a charmer close by—who would you choose? Highland Heart is the follow-up to Highland Fling, and it follows the story of Katya and Dexter—lovers who met at a magical village in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, but who begin to drift apart. She wants him; he wants her, but there are thousands of miles between...

Newly married and blissfully happy, Gaby and Jack are looking forward to another summer of fun in the village of Lochalshie. But there are clouds on the horizon... The Lochside Welcome pub and hotel is at the heart of the community—where the villagers gather to meet, gossip and eat Scotland's finest pizzas. Now, it's under threat. The landlord is ill,...

The dark web is waiting for you ... Get ready to immerse yourself in the internet’s darkest corners and stop the hacker in their tracks. Enjoy 80 puzzles to solve by million-copy bestselling author Dr Gareth Moore. Can you fix the malware the hacker has embedded into your system before the clock runs down? Do you have the skills to...

“Yuck!” “Ewwww!” “NOOOOO!” Prepare yourself to yell all of these things when you read this spectacularly disgusting collection of the burpiest, fartiest, smelliest, squelchiest jokes around. Why did the baker have smelly hands? Because he kneaded a poo. Why was the sand wet? Because the sea weed. What’s the difference between bogeys and broccoli? Kids won’t eat broccoli. This gleefully...

Greatest Short Stories for Children is a delightful collection of timeless tales crafted to entertain, inspire, and educate young minds. Bursting with imagination, humour, and valuable life lessons, each story in this anthology introduces children to lovable characters, exciting adventures, and important morals. Whether it’s a clever animal trickster or a brave young hero, these stories nurture creativity, empathy, and...

Andy Cohen has made a career, and a life, out of making the ordinary extraordinary. The inspiration for this fabulous, over-the-top view of the world has always come from the incredible women (from his mother to Madonna) he loves. In Glitter Every Day, Andy shares his most beloved words of daily inspiration, affirmation, and (just enough) intoxication from those lovely...

Tracy Whitwell's second novel Gin Palace picks up with the main character, Tanz, from The Accidental Medium, as she grows accustomed to her rather unusual gift. Tanz can talk to ghosts, although she'd prefer it if she couldn't. Struggling to make ends meet as an actress and wholly unsuited to supply teaching, Tanz is only one bad day away from...

The second book in a hilarious series featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, has become an unwilling crime-solver.

Spring is in the air at Sheffield University. The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and close friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy are all surviving their first year of university by the skin of their teeth. By the year's second half, Susan and McGraw's fledgling relationship is already on the rocks, and Esther is not dealing well with the...

Penny is not living her best life. Her job is far from thrilling and her long-term boyfriend shows no sign of wanting to commit. She has just turned fifty and is going nowhere. Wanting a new start, Penny applies for a job as cabin crew, to find out if she can push herself out of her comfort zone. Her new...

Famous is the darkly funny standalone thriller from Blake Crouch, the bestselling author of Dark Matter, for fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Meet Lance. 38-years-old. Works a meaningless job. Still lives above his parents' garage. By all accounts, a world-class loser. Except for one glaring exception... he has a million-dollar face. Lance has been mistaken twenty-eight times for...

Exercise your brain by navigating the intricately devised and devilishly difficult labyrinths in Extreme Mazes. With mazes as eye-catching as they are challenging, maze masters will have to negotiate a variety of mind-boggling, inventive puzzle types including 'bridge', 'multi-floor' and 'warp' mazes. Created by bestselling brain-training and puzzle book author, Gareth Moore. Please note: The material in this book has...

An actress home for the holidays makes a bet with her former best friend-turned-online sensation. Katie Price is known in every living room in America. A small-town Wisconsin girl who became an A-list star, she rarely makes it home, but this year is different... Little does she know it will lead her straight into the piercing blue-eyed gaze of Wil...

A unique approach to describing life at sea in the Royal Navy. Despite the introduction of modern-day technology, ships and submarines of the Royal Navy still operate on the basis of main broadcast announcements, known in the Royal Navy as Pipes. Before the introduction of main broadcasts, a crew (or ship’s company) would be alerted to forthcoming ship’s activity either...

Doom and Bloom is a self-help book that distils powerful insights into actionable steps to help you turn the sh*t you’ve faced in life into fertiliser for personal growth. Doom is the feeling when everything seems hopeless and hard, and you want to give up. Bloom, on the other hand, is a state of effortless creativity, where solutions surprise you...

What if some of the artists we feel as if we know—Meryl Streep, Neil Young, Bill Murray—turned up in the course of our daily lives? This is what happens to Rose McEwan, an ordinary woman who keeps having strange encounters with famous people. In this engrossing, original novel-in-stories, we follow her life from age 17, when she takes a summer...

Larger Than Life Swords - and Larger Than Life Injuries Michael Craughwell's homemade weapons were an overwhelming success the moment they hit the Internet, from his replica of Cloud Strife's sword to his infamous Pride Month-themed Big Gay Sword. His road to success was far from straightforward, though, and involved more than a few cuts, scrapes, and encounters with nitric...

Find out what the talkative Time Lord is really saying! Have you ever wondered what the Doctor is actually talking about? Are you burning to find out what a Vindicator is? Or what bi-generation is? In this book, the Doctor takes you through all those tricky Time Lord words and phrases to teach you everything you need to know for...

Don't miss the final instalment in the Dales Detective series! From death to danger and malice to mystery, Samson and Delilah have weathered many storms. Finally, things should be going smoothly. Except life's never that simple in Bruncliffe, is it? As the couple are beset with worries about their upcoming wedding, a charismatic celebrity comes knocking on the Dales Detective...

In the seventh novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series, Date with Betrayal, betrayal is rife in the idyllic Yorkshire Dales as Samson O'Brien, owner of the Dales Detective Agency, is targeted by a hitman. Can Bruncliffe save him? A brilliantly engaging and witty mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M. C. Beaton's Agatha...

Do you think your jokes are hilarious, without fail? Ever thought something was sidesplittingly funny only to have the rest of your family look at you with pity and disdain? It probably means that you’ve succumbed to the daft, ill-advised things all Dads say and do – the things you swore you’d never do! You’ve fallen for Dad-isms. In this...

Essential reading for everyone - Marian Keyes It's high time we renovated and elevated this life change. Despite the centuries of speculation and propaganda, we are not overheating or inherently cold, we are not hysterics or boiling vats of toxic poisons, we are not dried up or washed up, we are simply menopausal. It's time for us to start talking...

Wrap up and relax with this cosy and cute collection of word searches and colouring. Solving word searches is the perfect activity to help you switch off and get that important quiet time. Get comfy and embrace cosy culture as you solve over 100 wintry word searches and slow down as you fill in the calming colouring pages. Keep your...

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture, Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions, and Lit Hub Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before. -Seth Meyers A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious....

From New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott comes the final installment in the Dive Bar series. "With a mischievous signature style, Scott brings a tenderness and honesty that is truly delightful." — Publishers Weekly Bartender and all-round bad boy Eric Collins has come to a crossroads. It's time to take life seriously and maybe even attempt to settle down....

"A friends-to-lovers romance that's magically both hot and wholesome. Cozy, sexy, and so very satisfying. this one's a keeper." - Jen Devon, author of Right Where We Left Us In Erin Hahn's cozy, swoony romance, Maren Laughlin has been fishing her whole life, but she's finally ready to be caught. At thirty-three, Maren Laughlin's just turned down her boyfriend's proposal,...

A struggling waitress and the heir to a major Seattle company stumble into a high-profile fake engagement while simultaneously trying to keep up with their own love lives in this flirty fall rom-com! Lexi Danby is looking for some no-strings, fall fun. Once a college track star, she was forced to drop out when her father passed away. Now she's...

The true story of the greatest conspiracy in U.S. history - and how to fight back. Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven't, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. That's because they come out of the factory as adults. In the 1970s, the United States government killed off the...

Big Pussy Energy offers daily rituals and journal prompts designed to ignite your power and help you become your most passionate and inspired self. Written by sexologist Vanessa Muradian, Big Pussy Energy is an incredibly uplifting and inspiring book of activities, mantras, inspiring quotes and journalling prompts that will awaken the power within you. It will help you tune into...

From the heart of the Western Queensland Channel Country, Australia's oldest and favourite newspaper details our country's very rocky start to a new decade that was supposed to be one of great optimism and innovation. 2020 was meant to be our year of healing. A time to tend to the wounds of a country torn asunder by a decade of...

From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of-a-kind, fascinating memoir from an icon of British comedy, Adrian Edmondson. Berserker [noun]: A Norse warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable; often off his tits on henbane and large quantities of alcohol; one who is out of control with anger or excitement....

With large bright eyes and silent flight, the owl is a master of mystery. A bird of superstition and super-intelligence, its gifts are manifold, hidden beneath a sheath of feathers, just as the owl remains out of sight until the call of night beckons. A symbol of wisdom throughout the world, the owl has much to teach us about the...

Embrace your inner cat with this light-hearted self-help book. From living in the moment, trusting your sixth-sense instincts, to taking cat naps and even going feral, this book will show you how to benefit by unleashing your innate cattitude. Cats' ability to seize the day makes them excellent examples of how to make the most of every moment; whether it's...

Fiercely independent, all of Evans's characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. - New York Times Book Review A college student's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront her feelings of resentment toward her more privileged classmates. A father's misguided attempt to rescue a gift for his adult daughter magnifies all he doesn't know about...

"I've always looked upon cartooning as comedy's last frontier. I have done stand-up, sketches, movies, monologues, awards show introductions, sound bites, blurbs, talk show appearances, and tweets, but the idea of a one-panel image with or without a caption mystified me. I felt like, yeah, sometimes I'm funny, but there are these other weird freaks who are actually funny. You...

You sit on it every day, but how much do you really know about your toilet? Discover the history of pooing and weeing in this frankly disgusting non-fiction book. Authors Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle have scoured the toilet bowls and sewers of the world to find out how humans have done their business throughout history. Prepare to be revolted...

'I want to eat everything in this book every single day for the rest of my life.' — James Acaster From Spaced and Hot Fuzz to Paul and Truth Seekers, Nick Frost has lit up our screens for decades with his perfectly observed, just-the-right-side-of-absurd sketches and films. He's also a keen, self-taught cook: so keen, in fact, that in lockdown,...

When washed-up 80s rock legend Johnny Freestone is found dead in a cave off Scotland’s North Coast 500 tourist route, it looks like a tragic accident – another celebrity lost to a reckless lifestyle. But detective – and secret Freestone fan – Jack Logan is convinced he was murdered. As Logan delves into Johnny’s final days, he uncovers a trail...

Is your anxiety running? Well, you better go catch it! Adult anxiety is off its leash again. A Pet Named Anxiety by Sylvie Swenni, featuring illustrations by Paula Bossio, is a book of lighthearted validation of the outlandish ways that anxiety sticks its nose where it doesn't belong and then seems to run off with reckless abandon. Is this Anxiety...

Murder is the only paw-sible explanation… During a routine welfare check, the police find local shop owner Mr Fitzgerald at the foot of his stairs, dead. There is broken glass over the floor of his shop, his dog has been locked in the kitchenette cupboard, and on the counter is an envelope addressed to Mrs and Mrs Margery and Clementine...

Evocative, funny and poignant, this is the third volume of memoirs from James Herriot who inspired the television series All Creatures Great and Small. Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of wartime London is a far cry from James Herriot's day job as a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales. And whilst he is keen to...

In A Legend in the Baking, the new romance from Jamie Wesley, a cupcake-baking football player gets assistance from a social media maven—and his best friend's little sister—to help promote his new bakery after accidentally going viral online. August Hodges was supposed to be the silent partner in Sugar Blitz Cupcakes. Emphasis on silent. That is until his impromptu feminist...

From John Patrick Green, the creator of the side-splitting InvestiGators series, comes Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse - the second in a full colour, laugh-out-loud graphic novel series perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey! Bongo and Marsha, the super-spy Badgers, are on the case . . . and way over-budget! When S.U.I.T.* realises just how much money...

Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography. Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up the next morning in the tiny rented flat he shared with his wife Kitty and their one-year-old son, he was beyond excited about the new glamorous world...

Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography. Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up the next morning in the tiny rented flat he shared with his wife Kitty and their one-year-old son, he was beyond excited about the new glamorous world...

Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography. Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up the next morning in the tiny rented flat he shared with his wife Kitty and their one-year-old son, he was beyond excited about the new glamorous world...

In this long-awaited third volume in the Adventure in Cartooning series, you'll find everything you need to dream up and draw fantastical worlds for your character to inhabit! The Knight is back and ready for another cartooning adventure with Edward the Horse! As every adventurer knows, you can't have an epic journey without an epic new world to explore. They...

Why is it so cold at Christmas? Because it's Decembrrrrr! What do elves use to make Christmas cakes? Elf-raising flour! What's miserable and covered in custard? Apple grumble! Packed full of seasonal silliness and funny festive jokes that will keep you laughing for days - and that's sno joke! From Christmas jokes to food jokes, dinosaur jokes to pirate jokes,...

Elevate your basketball trivia game with fresh facts and superfan challenges! Test your sports savvy and emerge a champion with this interactive, brain-busting trivia book written by fans for fans. Above the Rim delivers all the stats, figures, funny stories, and highlights your inner sports nerd craves. Take a shot at Who Said It?, Guess the Player, and True or...

A longevity brain training programme for anyone who wants to live better. Optimise your brain health in four weeks with quick-fire daily puzzles. The five-minute brain challenge begins. Can you set aside just five minutes a day to make a measurable impact on your brain power? Learn how to build up your mental agility and enhance your brain power with...

52 Things to Do with a Pint is a lively celebration of beer in all its glorious, frothy forms – offering one quirky, clever or downright delicious idea for every week of the year. From beer pickles and Guinness punch to gardening hacks and beer-inspired art, this book is the ultimate love letter to the pint. Blending history, humour, recipes...

The only thing dads love more than Home Depot is a good, clean, marginally funny joke. Add in some classic bathroom humour, and you have a winner! This collection of groan-worthy jokes will give every dad inspiration for more ways to embarrass the wife and kids, while maybe getting a laugh or two.

100 Aussie Things We Know and Love puts the Australian way of life under a forensic lens, vigorously examining the socio-political underpinnings of the Australian character. Nah, just kidding! We'll just take you on a whistle-stop tour through the country's greatest people, places, animals, food, events and cultural quirks. Ever wondered why magpies attack, or Chiko rolls were invented, who...

A fun collection of daily crosswords from The Wall Street Journal - edited by Mike Shenk, a legend among puzzle fans! Try your hand at these 72 daily crosswords, from easy Monday to very special Friday, all created by a roster of the nation's best constructors. Friday's puzzle offers a unique challenge: a metapuzzle for you to solve. This "puzzle...

For readers of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft comes a fresh, funny kids' graphic novel series about three problem-solving besties and their humorous money-making schemes. Electric James, or Lex, as his friends call him, is finally turning ten, and that means one thing: he's getting a phone! And with the hottest phone on the market—the Apollo XL—he's sure to become...

From the popular creator of @LawByMike, a hilarious guide to all your legal questions—from the obscure to the downright absurd. Could you be arrested if you let your kids have a few sips of wine with dinner? Is it illegal to lie on your dating profile? Can a python be an emotional support animal? Most people don't know the majority...

In this twisty, uproarious debut for fans of The Wedding People and Traitors, a pop culture obsessive uses her reality TV expertise to investigate a suspicious disappearance aboard a yacht—while falling for a hot deckhand and avoiding confronting her best friend's untimely passing. This is a story about a definitely dead girl, a possibly dead girl and a living dead...

If you've been searching for word searches you can actually see without a struggle, look no further. The letters in these grids are large, as are the words in the lists. So, if you still can't find a word in these puzzles by master Mark Danna, it won't be because you couldn't read it!

Small, easy crosswords in large print . . . created by a powerhouse puzzlemaker Matt Gaffney! Challenge your brain—not your eyes with large-print crosswords for adults! These 125 crosswords are small, fun, and extremely doable—but the print is nice and large so they're easy to read, too. Even the numbers on the top-notch clues are giant, and all the puzzles...

Popular content creator and gospel musician Ariel Fitz-Patrick (who you may recognise with a blanket over her head playing her own sassy Guardian Angel) is refreshingly vulnerable (Publishers Weekly) as she shares candid stories of trusting God through life's hardest seasons, offering humor, wisdom, and big-sister-style encouragement for anyone wanting to deepen their own faith. "Is that you, God? Telling...

These super-tough crosswords are rock-solid entertainment for puzzle fans! Everyone looks forward to Saturday, but for some of us, it's not just because it's the weekend—it's when the newspapers publish their hardest crosswords. Hard as a Rock Crosswords: Super Hard features the hardest of the hard, with some of the twistiest, most fiendishly misleading clues you'll ever have the pleasure...

When you want to relax, there's nothing better than an easy crossword with no hard trivia to trip you up. This 96-page puzzle book features 72 15-by-15 crosswords from some of the top puzzlemakers in the country, all designed to offer a smooth, carefree solving experience. The puzzles have themes, which means the longest answers are tied together in some...

The Unofficial Peep Show Quiz Book by Giles Bursnell is the ultimate quiz book celebrating the British sitcom Peep Show, packed with over 450 questions to test fans' knowledge of one of Britain's most quotable comedy series. Move over Business Secrets of the Pharaohs... it's time for QUIZNESS Secrets of the Pharaohs. Welcome to the ultimate unofficial quiz book dedicated...

Don't miss this hilarious collection of jokes, perfect to carry around and read aloud to everyone you know! School a bit boring? Annoy your teachers and classmates — and the parents on canteen duty — with these brain-frying, eye-rolling, groan-tastic school jokes so bad they deserve detention. These Jokes Will Annoy Everyone at School is recommended for whenever maths, spelling...

Meet your new bestie Melody Moss in a hilarious new series about friendship, school and what it takes to survive being twelve! Melody Moss is back for Term Three... and things are getting seriously complicated. She has an actual boyfriend (!!!) but has no idea what she's doing. Her ex-best friend is still firmly in frenemy territory. Victor, her true...

The critically acclaimed, intense and funny coming-of-age debut novel about the magical thinking of youth and the mystery of adolescence. Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he's fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his mostly absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how...

You'll never believe what's inside people's heads! This humorous and heartwarming collection of stories from a neurosurgeon reminds us all that life is hopeful, tender—and a little bit squishy. Inside every skull is a story of heart, humanity—and the occasional hairball. You might think brain surgery is all cool precision and high-stakes drama. Sometimes it is. But more often, it's...

Perfect for kids who crave surprising animal facts and a wacky mix of cute and fierce! Are you ready for even more killer cuties? These adorable animals are venomous, vicious, and downright villainous. Don't be misled by their sweet eyes and furry faces! That wide-eyed quoll? It's a fierce predator with jaws strong enough to crush dinner in a single...

Happy Death Day meets The Truman Show in this darkly funny, blood-soaked thriller where a group of teens must outwit the ultimate killer. A darkly funny, blood-soaked thriller where a group of teens must outwit the ultimate killer: the horror story that's writing them.

Get cozy and colour in these super cute animals! In this exceptionally adorable colouring book, you'll find a collection of the cutest animals ever, drawn in a popular manga and anime style. From a playful otter to a surprised fox, there's a new favourite to find on every page. In this colouring book you'll find: 45 hand-illustrated, single-sided pages to...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. Featuring Dean Alston, Badiucao, Matt Bissett-Johnson, Peter Broelman, Harry Bruce, Mark David, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Johannes Leak, Glen LeLievre, Alan Moir, David Pope, David Rowe, John Spooner, Andrew Weldon, and Cathy Wilcox.

Put scruffy-looking nerf herders in their place with this hilarious interactive Star Wars quip generator that lets readers mix and match more than 150,000 zingers using phrases and language from a galaxy far, far away... From a galaxy full of colourful turns of phrase, this flip-book format lets Star Wars fans of all ages creatively combine adjectives and nouns for...

This will always be your home. My daughter's voice warms me, and I look out at the sea, smelling the wild Irish flowers on the windowsill. But what if the secret I'm keeping destroys the only family I have left? Wiping away her tears, Patricia Fleury carefully twists the ring off her finger. She sets it down on the glass...

By the sparkling sea on the Wild Atlantic Way sits a manor full of secrets, and a woman who will do anything for a second chance... Staring up at the magnificent, rose-covered walls of her grandmother's house, Violet Fleury isn't sure she'll be welcome inside. After running from her hometown in Ireland to follow her dreams of acting, she's back...

Rosalind Stopps is a born storyteller with a gift of balancing the gritty and dark with humour … a blooming marvellous page turner Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Warm, wise and compelling’ Daily Mail 'This story is fantastic' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A heart-warming tale of courage and friendship’ The Sun 'An outstanding read' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This standout read is both dark...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about Twentieth Century, including who shocked the world by showing her knickers, how two monkeys and a dog became astronauts, and why a posh London restaurant served stewed cat. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to intrigue and entertain!