{"product_id":"2026200014819-secondhand-mr-brain-knows-best","title":"Mr Brain Knows Best","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the most confident organ in the room is the one inside your skull — and it has absolutely no idea what it's doing? Mr Brain Knows Best is a wryly comic Australian work by Robert Burns, published by Ian Novak of Sydney, that charts the misadventures of a protagonist whose cerebral self-assurance is perpetually at odds with the chaotic reality surrounding him. With sharp, sardonic wit and a distinctly antipodean voice, Burns constructs a narrative built on the comic tension between human rationality and its spectacular failures, delivering a story that is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is quietly perceptive.\n\nBurns writes with a light but assured touch, drawing on a tradition of deadpan humour that trusts the reader to find the absurdity lurking beneath the surface of everyday life. The novel illuminates the universal human condition of overconfidence — the unshakeable belief that one's own judgement is sound, even as evidence mounts to the contrary. Lean, sharp, and consistently entertaining, Mr Brain Knows Best leaves the reader wondering: if the brain really does know best, why does everything keep going so magnificently wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203164217563,"sku":"2026200014819-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/be63205b-e849-40d9-9838-5dd3faca7dc8.png?v=1788144838","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014819-secondhand-mr-brain-knows-best","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}