Rick Furphy

Aussies love a road trip. Packing up the ute and slogging for hours or days to get to some town that's only slightly less sh*t than where you came from is just part of living on the sprawling expanse of mediocrity that is Australia. The Great Aussie Road Trip presents seven epic routes that together take in the most iconic...

From dusty desert shtholes to free-range bogan breeding grounds, to the bin-chicken playgrounds of our megacities, Sht Towns of Australia is a guide to the concrete, fibro and methamphetamine wastelands that we like to call home. From Coober Pedy to Canberra, from Ballarat to Broken Hill, from Logan to Launceston, Sht Towns takes us through the veritable fck-tonne of crappy...

Based on the hugely popular Facebook page 'Shit Towns of New Zealand', this is a detailed catalogue of shit towns and cities across Aotearoa. Naturally, the first volume was received as a literary masterpiece, taking home the prestigious Poolitzer Prize, the Poobody Award, and the Nobel Prize for Shiterature. The only people upset by the book were the residents of...