Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0987278444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman … With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his cosy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and the gambling den, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix, and tapping into military software and magic mushrooms. The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the dark and murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.
Iraqi Icicle 2nd edition
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0987278444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman … With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his cosy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and the gambling den, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix, and tapping into military software and magic mushrooms. The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the dark and murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0987278444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman … With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his cosy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and the gambling den, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix, and tapping into military software and magic mushrooms. The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the dark and murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.
Iraqi Icicle
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bernie Dowling
ISBN: 0995394709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman … With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his cosy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and the gambling den, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix, and tapping into military software and magic mushrooms. The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the dark and murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.
Publisher: Bernie Dowling
ISBN: 0995394709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman … With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his cosy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and the gambling den, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix, and tapping into military software and magic mushrooms. The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the dark and murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.
Naughty Nineties
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 098056848X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Steele Hill proves a boy from Oz can survive the 1990s. Maybe. Rock music tragic Hill pushes through humor, mystery, suspense, lust and urban rhythms in a decade autopsied by Quentin Tarantino and the comedy of Eric Bana. Murder, crime, laughs and survival engulf a clutch of colorful characters in seven stories of a little man in a Big City. “Readers will appreciate the author's ability to render colorful characters and understated witty prose.” PW review of Iraqi Icicle.
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 098056848X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Steele Hill proves a boy from Oz can survive the 1990s. Maybe. Rock music tragic Hill pushes through humor, mystery, suspense, lust and urban rhythms in a decade autopsied by Quentin Tarantino and the comedy of Eric Bana. Murder, crime, laughs and survival engulf a clutch of colorful characters in seven stories of a little man in a Big City. “Readers will appreciate the author's ability to render colorful characters and understated witty prose.” PW review of Iraqi Icicle.
7 Shouts
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0992593425
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
How did U.S. President Barack Obama get so familiar with Australian slang and culture? Perhaps he read Bernie Dowling’s 7 Shouts. President Obama is in the book along with sports Australians really .love, the Melbourne Cup horse race, of course, but also fish throwing and cockroach races. 7 Shouts is a comic cosmic journey to the humorous heart of the Australian soul. There’s science in the Russell Crowe First Law and art as Dowling tries to convince Delta Goodrem to go on a blind date with a disadvantaged teenager. There’s farm animals such as french poodles Fi Fi and Fa Fa which enter the sheep-dog trials. 7 Shouts is based on seven years of Dowling’s award winning newspaper column, updated to 2014. 7 Shouts is a classic contemporary doco of a world gone mad, but still a heap of fun.
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0992593425
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
How did U.S. President Barack Obama get so familiar with Australian slang and culture? Perhaps he read Bernie Dowling’s 7 Shouts. President Obama is in the book along with sports Australians really .love, the Melbourne Cup horse race, of course, but also fish throwing and cockroach races. 7 Shouts is a comic cosmic journey to the humorous heart of the Australian soul. There’s science in the Russell Crowe First Law and art as Dowling tries to convince Delta Goodrem to go on a blind date with a disadvantaged teenager. There’s farm animals such as french poodles Fi Fi and Fa Fa which enter the sheep-dog trials. 7 Shouts is based on seven years of Dowling’s award winning newspaper column, updated to 2014. 7 Shouts is a classic contemporary doco of a world gone mad, but still a heap of fun.
Serendipity
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0987278487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Serendipity is a collection of contemporary urban short stories and poetry from the Writers Anthology Group of authors from Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each short story is illustrated by photographers and other visual artists. The stories range in style from humor to suspense drama, mystery, thrillers and mementos. A buyer of the anthology can apply for free advice on creating your own anthology through a writers'collective. Visit www.bentbanabooks.com
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0987278487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Serendipity is a collection of contemporary urban short stories and poetry from the Writers Anthology Group of authors from Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each short story is illustrated by photographers and other visual artists. The stories range in style from humor to suspense drama, mystery, thrillers and mementos. A buyer of the anthology can apply for free advice on creating your own anthology through a writers'collective. Visit www.bentbanabooks.com
Idioms through Time and Technology
Author: Iulian Mardar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527578518
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This game-changing, reader-friendly book provides a more precise definition of idioms, along with new classifications of them. It eliminates fixed phrases such as phrasal verbs, collocations, slang, and proverbs from the class of idioms, while including two major new categories: similidioms and irony-based idiom sentences (IBISes). As a matter of fact, similidioms (basically, idioms in the form of a simile) have been there probably since the beginning of our history as being capable of speaking, but they have not been revealed, until now. Starting from the observation that the production of idioms in any language is influenced by the technological advance of society, the book takes two of the most productive lexico-semantic categories of idioms in both English and Romanian—crazy and stupid idioms—and provides, for the first time, their classification according to their topic and pattern, in an intriguing contrastive approach. Well-documented and not lacking a subtle sense of humour, the book not only opens new perspectives for researchers in the field, but will also captivate the general reader interested in finding out more about the expressions they use every day.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527578518
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This game-changing, reader-friendly book provides a more precise definition of idioms, along with new classifications of them. It eliminates fixed phrases such as phrasal verbs, collocations, slang, and proverbs from the class of idioms, while including two major new categories: similidioms and irony-based idiom sentences (IBISes). As a matter of fact, similidioms (basically, idioms in the form of a simile) have been there probably since the beginning of our history as being capable of speaking, but they have not been revealed, until now. Starting from the observation that the production of idioms in any language is influenced by the technological advance of society, the book takes two of the most productive lexico-semantic categories of idioms in both English and Romanian—crazy and stupid idioms—and provides, for the first time, their classification according to their topic and pattern, in an intriguing contrastive approach. Well-documented and not lacking a subtle sense of humour, the book not only opens new perspectives for researchers in the field, but will also captivate the general reader interested in finding out more about the expressions they use every day.
O Lorde
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0992593433
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
New Zealand teenager Ella Yelich-O’Connor went from obscurity to fame and fortune as Lorde in less than 18 months. Ella was not a conventional child. “I went to a lot of David Lynch films, I read a lot of strange books, I loved to go to the museum all day. I was that kid.” Ella liked reading short stories and one of her favorite authors was American Kurt Vonnegut. Journalist Bernie Dowling has compiled quotes from Lorde and Vonnegut to tell her story in their own words Also included is Dowling’s entertaining account of the rise of Lorde. ‘I was in a cab home in NYC and Royals came on and I laughed and the driver asked why and I told him it was my song and he said ‘Mine, too.’
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0992593433
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
New Zealand teenager Ella Yelich-O’Connor went from obscurity to fame and fortune as Lorde in less than 18 months. Ella was not a conventional child. “I went to a lot of David Lynch films, I read a lot of strange books, I loved to go to the museum all day. I was that kid.” Ella liked reading short stories and one of her favorite authors was American Kurt Vonnegut. Journalist Bernie Dowling has compiled quotes from Lorde and Vonnegut to tell her story in their own words Also included is Dowling’s entertaining account of the rise of Lorde. ‘I was in a cab home in NYC and Royals came on and I laughed and the driver asked why and I told him it was my song and he said ‘Mine, too.’
Alpha and Omega
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0987278436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
A good short story touches the reader's soul and lingers in memory. Alpha and Omega is a collection of contemporary short stories from the Writers Anthology Group of authors from the Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each short story is illustrated by photographers and other visual artists. The stories range in style from humor to suspense, drama, mystery, thrillers and mementos. This year's volume follows the popular anthology Serendipity A buyer of the anthology can apply for free advice on creating your own anthology through a writers' collective. Visit www.bentbanabooks.com
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0987278436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
A good short story touches the reader's soul and lingers in memory. Alpha and Omega is a collection of contemporary short stories from the Writers Anthology Group of authors from the Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each short story is illustrated by photographers and other visual artists. The stories range in style from humor to suspense, drama, mystery, thrillers and mementos. This year's volume follows the popular anthology Serendipity A buyer of the anthology can apply for free advice on creating your own anthology through a writers' collective. Visit www.bentbanabooks.com
Inspired By . . .
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0992593476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This is the sixth anthology in the series begun by the Arts Alliance Pine Rivers. Again we have short stories and poetry illustrated by local artists. In 2015, we are privileged to have contributions from artists of the Pine Rivers U3A advanced class tutored by Lillian Tebesceff. We include four stories from winners in the Peter Campbell Memorial / WAG Literary Awards for local high school students. This year's title Inspired by . . . brings together a diversity of short stories and poetry, each one inspired by literary classics or authors' peculiar interests. Each year brings a different flavour to our anthology. This year many writers independently chose to render mystery or adventure tales. Add spices of humour, fantasy and drama and you have a literary feast.
Publisher: Bent Banana Books
ISBN: 0992593476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This is the sixth anthology in the series begun by the Arts Alliance Pine Rivers. Again we have short stories and poetry illustrated by local artists. In 2015, we are privileged to have contributions from artists of the Pine Rivers U3A advanced class tutored by Lillian Tebesceff. We include four stories from winners in the Peter Campbell Memorial / WAG Literary Awards for local high school students. This year's title Inspired by . . . brings together a diversity of short stories and poetry, each one inspired by literary classics or authors' peculiar interests. Each year brings a different flavour to our anthology. This year many writers independently chose to render mystery or adventure tales. Add spices of humour, fantasy and drama and you have a literary feast.
Sweet and Sour
Author: Bernie Dowling
Publisher: Bernie Dowling
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Sweet and Sour is the third anthology from the writers of Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each story is illustrated by an artist of the region. The stories cover styles from humor, mystery and thrillers as their authors cleverly unveil layers of the modern world.
Publisher: Bernie Dowling
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Sweet and Sour is the third anthology from the writers of Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each story is illustrated by an artist of the region. The stories cover styles from humor, mystery and thrillers as their authors cleverly unveil layers of the modern world.