Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman
$20.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
'You can be whatever you want to be, but that's nowhere near as important as knowing that you can be exactly who you are' Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood. In between ...Show more
Inked: Australian Cartoons by Guy Hansen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Cartoons can give us a pictorial history of Australia in a series of cartoon 'time capsules'; they often hold a mirror up to Australian society. This book shows how cartoonists helped develop a visual vocabulary for Australian life and culture—whether it is 'The Little Boy from Manly', a larrikin digger ...Show more
Why Mummy Doesn't Give a... by Gill Sims
$20.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Condition: **NEW** Mummy dreams of a quirky rural cottage with roses around the door and chatty chickens in the garden. Life, as ever, is not going quite as she planned. Paxo, Oxo and Bisto turn out to be highly rambunctious, rather than merely chatty, and the roses have jaggy thorns. Her precious m ...Show more
Books Books (Tote Bag) by Gibbs Smith, Publisher (Designed by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: LoveLit
STYLISH TOTES FOR CARRYING YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS 14" wide x 15 1⁄2" tall x 5" gusset, natural cotton, 22" handles Made in the U.S.A.
Comics Tote by GIBBS SMITH
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Love Lit
STYLISH TOTES FOR CARRYING YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS 16 wide x 15 1⁄2 tall x 5 gusset natural cotton, 22 handles Made in the U.S.A.
The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons by Bob Eckstein (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
This exuberant collection of cartoons is an enthusiastic love letter to books and bookstores. The cartoons celebrate and critique the literary world through the work of thirty-three of the masters of cartoon art, including Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Arnie Levin, Danny Shanahan, Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens, N ...Show more
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish - Advice for the Rest of Your Life - Classic Graduation Speeches by No Author
$20.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Speeches
Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be. Graduation day is a pivotal moment. After a lifetime of learning, and at least three years of studying hard in a chosen subject, we are thrown headfirst into the unknown world of adulthood. That day - and the months afterwards - are ripe with possibility. T ...Show more
Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions by Patricia Marx
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
The perfect Mother's Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Marx heard from her mother, accompanied by full-color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast. Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx's knows better. Patty has never been ab ...Show more
The Juggle by Samantha Brett; Steph Adams
$40.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Women these days are more powerful than ever before. Kicking goals in boardrooms, business, politics, fashion, beauty and finance - and all the while juggling relationships, families and motherhood as well. How are they doing it all? What are their secrets to managing the ups and downs? That's where The ...Show more
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make rig ...Show more
How to Keep Your Cool: Anger Management by Seneca Seneca; James S. Romm
$33.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." Thi ...Show more
488 Rules for Life - The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
RICHARD GLOVER: ''You won’t agree with all her rules – I, for one, am a great believer in the word “pash” – but there is a good laugh, and a lively argument, to be had on every page.'' 488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Applying truth and wit to ...Show more