Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Read More...


Here in one volume are two comic masterpieces by Bill Bryson, the books that have brought him acclaim as one of the funniest writers at work today. Read More...


When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statemenet .. Read More...


Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy Epic. Dirk Gently himself is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Read More...


Lear is best known for his nonsense poems, deceptively simple rhymes that together describe a surreal and uniquely engaging imaginative world, through one with a deep underlying sense of melancholy.. Read More...


The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith AUD32.00

The diary is that of Mr. Charles Pooter, a city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in Upper Holloway. The humour derives from Pooter's unconscious gaffes and self-importance, as well as the snubs he receives from those he considers socially inferior, such as tradesmen. Read More...


Fillets of Plaice Gerald Durrell AUD8.00

At that moment came a noise like somebody breaking the backbone of a whale and the palm leaf punkah crashed straight onto the table, one end of it completely obliterating the District Commissioner. 'Oh my God!' screamed Mary, upsetting her gin and tonic. 'I'm terribly, terribly sorry, sir,' said Martin to the invisible D.C. Read More...


Catch Me a Colobus Gerald Durrell AUD10.00

A big and rather beautiful tree grew a couple of hundred yards from the verandah just below us. There was a crash and rustle amongst the leaves. And then, suddenly, it seemed as though the whole tree had burst into bloom, a bloom of monkeys. They were Red and Black Colobus, and they were the most breathtaking sight. Read More...


The Bafut Beagles Gerald Durrell AUD12.00

Gerald Durrell's adventurous spirit and his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote mark him as a rare bird indeed. Here he describes a collecting expedition to the Cameroons, where, with the assistance of a pack of African enthusiasts and mongrel dogs, he captureed almost everything from flying mice to booming squirrels. Read More...


The Whispering Land Gerald Durrell AUD12.00

Gerald Durrell searches windswept Patagonian shores and tropical forests in the Argentine for additions to his private zoo. Penguins and elephant seals make way for an absurd family of foxes who dance gracefully with a roll of lavatory paper, and we see the author baiting a trap for a recalcitrant vampire bat with one of his own toes. Read More...


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