A blackly funny novel about an unlikely hero, and his misadventures on the flood he has created.In the drought-stricken Riverland town of Denmark in South Australia, after the suicide of his wife, Merv Rossiter steals a boat. He trucks north with his eight-year-old-daughter Em into Queensland. There he blows up the dam at Croesus Station, releasing a flood through outback New South Wales into South Australia.As the authorities search for them, Merv and Em ride the flood sout...

'You've got to have that madness in your mind to win, win, win. You've got to have that somewhere, but it can't consume you.'This story begins in infamy. Everyone's first glimpse of the man is of ferocious blows struck in Grand Finals, his name splashed in headlines across the back pages of the tabloids. It's the 1970s, it's Richmond: kill or be killed.There was a time when almost every football watcher who heard Neil Balme's name would react with disapproval. My God, w...

‘You’ve got to have that madness in your mind to win, win, win. You’ve got to have that somewhere, but it can’t consume you.’The singular story of football's hardest man and sharpest mind.This story begins in infamy. Everyone’s first glimpse of the man is of ferocious blows struck in grand finals, his name splashed in headlines across the back pages of the tabloids. It’s the 1970s, it’s Richmond: kill or be killed.There was a time when almost every football watcher ...

You know those childhood memoirs that tell of the innocence of youth, of a gentle past when boys and girls were adorable and agreeable, respectful of their elders, and spoke only when spoken to?This isn’t one of those.Boyhoodlum is the hilarious confession of an ingeniously devious and destructive boy. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Anson Cameron waged guerrilla war on his hometown in country Victoria. When he wasn’t blowing his family TV to smithereens, he was e...

From Australia's foremost comic novelist comes a hilarious satire of the art world, based on a true story.Harry Broome dreams of being a famous painter. And when a sophisticated French beauty buys all the paintings at his first exhibition, he knows he's on his way. But in the art world nothing is as it seems.Before long, to pay his debts and save his reputation, he is trapped in a plot to steal Picasso's Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria. She is t...

Daring and provocative short stories from one of Australia’s best comic writers.A collection of fables in which the intuition of animals is set against the hubris of man, Anson Cameron is part court jester, part acclaimed writer of short stories and novels, and part national conscience.A cola company uses the last wild polar bears as billboards. A boy is forced to compose poems for ats. A dog starts a race-riot. A zebra shames two armies. A zoologist vivisects a gorilla to ...

He's just and only a boy.It's 1975. Blue Black is a clever young so and so, who's won a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school. His family is from the bush town of Pentimento, and his father earns his living logging the local trees while his mother looks after the home. Blue is their great hope. They've sacrificed a lot to send him to this school - and they expect big things from him.One day, the school is abuzz with the new arrival. No ordinary arrival, this ...

With his inimtable wry humour, Anson Cameron exposes the nature of man.In the dawning days of Science v, God, a zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in an ape's head. One of many wicked and wise tales from the collection Pepsi Bears and Other Stories.

With his inimitable wry humour, Anson Cameron exposes the nature of man.In the dawning days of Science v, God, a zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in an ape's head. One of many wicked and wise tales from the collection Pepsi Bears and Other Stories.

**It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG.Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards, Social Impact Book of the YearLonglisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards**Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of the Year for 2023How does a self-described ‘skinny Aboriginal kid’ overcome a legacy of family tragedy to become an AFL legend? One thing’s for sure: it’s not easy. But then, there’s always been something speci...

In Sport, the term 'good bloke' doesn't mean what it says. Like 'fun run', it in fact often means the exact opposite.Titus O'Reily, the sports historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines why our nation's sportspeople can do terrible things yet be so readily forgiven.In this Great Southern Land, a sportsman can be excused almost any sin if he is elevated to the mythical status of being a 'good bloke'. So, what does it take to earn the title of 'good blo...

Have you ever wanted to step out of your life and be someone different?From the author of JUBILEE - a Top 10 bestseller and Richard & Judy choice - the story of woman who decides to become a hero.Jenny Pepper never expected to end up like this. Tired of her unglamorous part-time job, the relentless domestic grind, and bewildered by her teenage daughter, one night Jenny stumbles into a vigilante rescue. Suddenly her world is exciting again. ...