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Doctor In The House

Doctor In The House

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: dj: chipped and worn with moderate loss. Doctor in the House is a riotously funny and warmly observed comic novel that...
Doctor In Love

Doctor In Love

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingWhat happens when the most lovably hapless doctor in British fiction trades his stethoscope for the pursuit of romance?...
Doctor At Large

Doctor At Large

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: fep clipped; dj clipped.Fresh out of medical school and brimming with misplaced confidence, young Dr. Simon...
Around The World In 78 Days

Around The World In 78 Days

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when a young journalist decides to circumnavigate the globe armed with little more than curiosity, a notebook, and a deadline?...
Soap Behind The Ears

Soap Behind The Ears

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedCondition remarks: DJ - large piece missing from rear panel; minor marks on boards. With the razor-sharp wit and breezy self-deprecation that made her one of...
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You

That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You

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New York Times Bestseller! Writer, comedian, and content creator Elyse Myers gets real about life's awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book Elyse Myers is known to...
There's Music In My Madness: And Opera As Well

There's Music In My Madness: And Opera As Well

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor decades, John Cargher was the irreverent, passionate, and brilliantly entertaining voice of classical music and opera on Australian radio, and There's Music in...
Vet in a Spin

Vet in a Spin

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James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn't found a new profession and it surely won't be long before...
Wowsers

Wowsers

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sunburned moral landscape of colonial and early Federation Australia, a peculiar breed of crusader rose to prominence —...
Goon For Lunch

Goon For Lunch

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the beloved Welsh entertainer who made millions laugh as part of the legendary Goon Show, Goon for...
The Story Of The Goons

The Story Of The Goons

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Monty Python, before alternative comedy, before British humour was exported to the world, there were The Goons...
Private View

Private View

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have captured the riotous, joyful absurdity of everyday British life quite like Beryl Cook, and Private...
Earnest Escapades: Or Seriously For Fun Only (SIGNED)

Earnest Escapades: Or Seriously For Fun Only (SIGNED)

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionWhat happens when a life lived fully to the brim is committed to the page with wit, candour, and an irrepressible...
Doctor In The House

Doctor In The House

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Edition: 16th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when a hapless, pleasure-seeking young man stumbles into the brutally competitive world of 1950s British medical...
Changi: The Funny Side

Changi: The Funny Side

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the barbed wire of one of history's most notorious prisoner-of-war camps, an unlikely spirit of...
Dear Me

Dear Me

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does a man say when he writes a letter to himself? In Dear Me, the incomparable Sir...
My Life & Times

My Life & Times

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras captured the absurdity and warmth of everyday English life with quite the same charm as Jerome...
The Wit Of Walker

The Wit Of Walker

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Australian cricket have combined athletic prowess with laugh-out-loud personality quite like Max Walker, and The Wit of Walker captures that rare charisma...
The Wit Of Walker

The Wit Of Walker

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew cricketers have ever commanded both the pitch and the punchline with quite the same swagger as Max Walker — fast bowler, larrikin, and one of...
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the

Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo , a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped...
Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood

Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood

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The Sunday Times bestselling global comedy phenomenon whose first book taught us everything we need to know about beauty and homemaking, are back with a much needed companion guide to...
The Best of Me

The Best of Me

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What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these...
Delight

Delight

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'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th...
Dear Me

Dear Me

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly multifaceted minds turns the lens of scrutiny upon...
It Shouldn'T Happen To A Vet

It Shouldn'T Happen To A Vet

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the windswept Yorkshire Dales comes one of the most beloved and uproarious memoirs in British literary history...
My Family: The Memoir

My Family: The Memoir

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'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN 'A masterpiece ' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... funny and moving' ADAM...
Is There A Life After Birth?

Is There A Life After Birth?

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingWith a title as audaciously irreverent as the man himself, Is There a Life After Birth? presents Alexander King at...
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim

Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim

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Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small crease on rear cover. What happens when one of America's sharpest comic...
The Angry Island: Hunting The English

The Angry Island: Hunting The English

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markWhat does it truly mean to be English — and why is England so perpetually, magnificently furious? In The Angry Island: Hunting...
From Fringe To Flying Circus: Celebrating A Unique Generation Of Comedy 1960-1980

From Fringe To Flying Circus: Celebrating A Unique Generation Of Comedy 1960-1980

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the two decades between 1960 and 1980, British comedy underwent a seismic revolution — and...
Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn

Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn

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'These days, watching television is like sitting in the back of Travis Bickle's taxicab, staring through the window at a world of relentless, churning shod . . .'Cruel, acerbic, impassioned,...
Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation

Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation

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In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way....
Hit & Ms: Surviving Liberation In The Full-Frontal Tell-All Eighties

Hit & Ms: Surviving Liberation In The Full-Frontal Tell-All Eighties

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an era of shoulder pads, self-help, and sexual politics run amok, Hit & Ms cuts through the...
Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition

Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition

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The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations : 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh. BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR , THERE...
Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at

Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at

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From Ross Mathews, the nationally bestselling author of Man Up! , judge on RuPaul's Drag Race , and alum of Chelsea Lately , a collection of hilarious and irreverent essays...
The Best Of Lennie Lower

The Best Of Lennie Lower

$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAustralia's funniest man finally gets his due in The Best of Lennie Lower, a definitive anthology celebrating the...
Ready When You Are, C.B!: The Autobiography Of Alan Yates Alias Carter Brown

Ready When You Are, C.B!: The Autobiography Of Alan Yates Alias Carter Brown

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the pen name Carter Brown lived Alan Yates — one of the most prolific and commercially successful crime writers of the twentieth century —...
Samurais And Circumcisions

Samurais And Circumcisions

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEqual parts harrowing and darkly comic, Samurais and Circumcisions is the remarkable memoir of Leslie Poidevin, an Australian...
Moe Howard & The 3 Stooges: The Pictorial Biography Of The Wildest Trio In The History Of American Entertainment

Moe Howard & The 3 Stooges: The Pictorial Biography Of The Wildest Trio In The History Of American Entertainment

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew comedy acts in history have left as indelible a mark on American entertainment as the Three Stooges, and in Moe Howard & The...
At The Pillars Of Hercules

At The Pillars Of Hercules

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated wits and cultural critics comes a collection of essays that...
Fat Tuesday Tails

Fat Tuesday Tails

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedPatrick Campbell — Ireland's most beloved humorist and one of television's most charmingly hesitant personalities — brings his signature wit and warmth to Fat...
The Scomo Diaries (SIGNED)

The Scomo Diaries (SIGNED)

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if Australia's most notorious Prime Minister kept a diary — and it was exactly as chaotic,...
The Intimate Sex Lives Of Famous People

The Intimate Sex Lives Of Famous People

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat really happened behind the closed doors of history's most celebrated figures? The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People presents a boldly candid and meticulously...
The Politician Who Laughed

The Politician Who Laughed

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodPolitics has rarely been rendered with such warmth and irreverence as in The Politician Who Laughed, a memoir-meets-comedy from one of Australia's most colourful...
Roughing It

Roughing It

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBefore the American West was tamed, one man rode straight into its wild heart and came back with a story that changed travel writing forever. Roughing...
The First Time

The First Time

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedWhat do Maya Angelou, Erica Jong, Jack Lemmon, and Dr. Benjamin Spock have in common? In The First Time, Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor...
Life With Father

Life With Father

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew memoirs capture the warmth and absurdity of family life with the precision and wit of Life With Father, Clarence Day's beloved autobiographical masterpiece....
Have Balls Will Travel: The Story Of A Rugby Tour

Have Balls Will Travel: The Story Of A Rugby Tour

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodStep into the muddy, boisterous, and gloriously chaotic world of international rugby with Mike Burton's Have Balls Will Travel, a riotous first-hand chronicle of life on...