Richard Glover: 9 books

The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia...

'Full-on, uncontrollable, laugh-till-you-weep stories. Glover has become the indispensable chronicler of Australian family life' Geraldine Brooks Richard Glover's deeply skewed stories of everyday life are heard each week on ABC radio's 'thank God It's Friday'. He creates a world which is both weird...

A new collection of hilarious stories from Richard's much-loved ABC radio show, THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY, in the style of his previous collections, IN BED WITH JOCASTA and DESPERATE HUSBANDS. 'Full-on, uncontrollable, laugh-till-you-weep stories. Glover has become the indispensable chronicler of Australian...

If Jesse has any hope of making friends at his new school he has to do something about his dad, who keeps making the most appalling jokes. And Ben's father's not much better, he's forever belting out the wrong lyrics to his favourite songs. In the Joke trap you'll not only read some of the world's worst Dad Jokes, you'll also see how Jesse and Ben construct their own hilarious revenge.

From the bestselling author of FLESH WOUNDS A young man who didn't know HOW to be a man. Two women willing to wrestle in mud. A friend who knew his way around a set of power tools. Building a house has never been so funny. Or life-changing. 'Hilarious' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

No-minute noodler: a kid who eats the two-minute noodles straight from the packet without even cooking them! Dinobore: a kid who can t talk about anything other than dinosaurs.Bumboozle: to confuse the issue of who it was that farted by blaming it all on the dog!A very funny book of words that should exist but don't!Includes a great do-it-yourself section for kids at the back.

Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders,...

In Central West Africa over a quarter of a million years ago, mankind evolved to become the very first known genetically and anatomically modern humansHomo sapiens. One hundred forty thousand years ago, some of these modern humans migrated to the Great Rift Valley and Ethiopia, where almost all non-African...

"These narratives, wrought with poetic detail and heartbreaking authenticity, examine the line men walk between life and death, between hope and self-destruction." ~ Dawn Trook, author of 'Pink Parasol and other poems' featuring 22 short fictions from Richard Mark Glover