We wish to thank the West End Library and staff for their assistance and support in launching the book. The book is now available in Brisbane City Council Libraries. Please note that Michael, we really have to talk is available in hardback at the Avid Reader Bookstore in West End and online in e-book and hardback at Amazon.… Go to Article
Category: Bent Banana Books
Munching the Millions
AUSTRALIANS will gamble on two flies. crawling up a wall, they say.
Aussie bookmaker Tom Waterhouse is currently betting on how much Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream will fetch at a Southey’s auction this month.
Waterhouse has previously wagered on the winners of reality shows such as Dancing with the Stars and The Voice to add a bit of zest to mundane wagers on political elections and Academy Awards.… Go to Article
Lazarus Syndrome inspires comic short story
Return from the dead: read a fictional short story about a true-life medical condition
ANOTHER LAZARUS
Belinda Janz
DEAR Aunty Jo,
This last fortnight has been such an emotional rollercoaster ride that I have decided to write this letter as we can hardly believe it. Really, it’s too much to relay to the Captain of your ship.
Autistic boy teaches colorful magic
Enjoy this illsutrated short story from the anthology
BRILLIANT COLOURS
Kay Curran
THERE are many ways of experiencing colour! The artist and the poet express the colours around them in amazing ways. Some people see their feelings in colour from the golden joy of a parent when they hold their child for the first time to the red of frustration and tiredness as their special child grows up.
Guest Book Review
4.0 out of 5 stars
Iraqi Icicle by Bernie Dowling, 22 Dec 2012
Interesting theatrical, musical and political diversions
By
This review is from: http://btfy.me/cfbtw9
I ENJOYED this story and I liked the main character, Steel Hill, who delivers as a first person narrator.
… Go to Article Festive Fun
A shout-out from my favourite witch
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun book for the person who loves journalism!
Bookish Witch “Heather” (Kentucky)
This review is from: 7 Shouts (My Shout) (Kindle Edition)
Bernie Dowling has compiled years of journalistic endeavors into one compendium, along with pictures (some of them quite funny), and has thus given readers “7 Shouts”.
… Go to Article Aussie thriller sings and zings
Brother reviews brother. Oh, Brother!
4.0 out of 5 stars
THIS novel is an epic detective story of more than 400 pages.
Private investigator Steele Hill is a larger than life character who has the happy knack of being there when the action is happening.
Iraqi Icicle excerpt
The comic detective novel Iraqi Icicle is being released at Pine Rivers Art Gallery Queensland Australia on December 20 in a multi-art event as part of the world-wide A Big Project.
Here is an edited excerpt.
It was a week before I saw the cops again. They tried to kick down the door of my flat, which is on the floor below My Cucumber Natalie and not 800 metres from my beloved Brisbane racetracks.… Go to Article
Vision gets even better
Bent Christmas and Banana New Year
Avoir un Bent Noël et une Bonne Année Banana Nouveau!
Werfen Sie einen Bent Weihnachten und ein Banana New Year!
एक तुला क्रिसमस और एक केले New Year!
ベントクリスマスと新年のバナナを持っている！
Bíodh na Nollag Bent agus Athbhliain Banana Nua!
Have a Bent Christmas and a Banana New Year!
GIVE a gift of a Bent Banana Book this Christmas to family, friends and yourself.… Go to Article
Trudy returns
RELUCTANT psychic Detective Trudy Harper is back with her paranormal “gifts’’ stronger but still beyond the conscious control of the young woman.
Vision II: The Reluctant Psychic Returns follows the popular series debut which gathered reader praise including favorable comparisons with hit television shows, The Mentalist, Law & Order and Medium.
… Go to Article Free Spirit soars
FREE! Free at last!
Not quite but Vision: The Reluctant Psychicis free this Saturday.
The new paranormal crime drama is free Saturday, US time.
You might want to set your world clock.
http://www.timeanddate.com/wordclock/?n=47Mine has a default time of Brisbane, Australia. You might want to change that.
Vision: The Reluctant Psychic is knocking on the heavenly door of Top 20 in the Ghost genre.
… Go to Article To sex or not to sex
THAT is the question: to sex or not to sex.
A lot of websites are saying no to sex.
On the first page of a Google search of mine, six websites had this exact same bait line: ‘American Playwright David Mamet explains why no play or movie he writes or directs include explicit sex scenes.’
… Go to Article Amazon declares me profane
Amazon thinks we are profane.
They said my profile was unacceptable because it contained a profanity. WTF! I carefully re-read my profile and tried a few changes but the message came back: PROFANE
I deleted the only remaining thing I could see they might object to. Sure enough, the new version passed muster.… Go to Article
Critical readers have their say about 7 Shouts
By Jane.S
Bernie Dowling has a unique voice that really brings his columns to life. I highly recommend this to anyone that enjoys Australian humour. Even if you don’t laugh you will be entertained and informed. My favourite is the Slanguage chapter. For the record I say ‘marown’.
… Go to Article Je m’apelle a winner babe
Our best bet for Australia today is Glaneuse, a 6-year-old gelding by Blevic out of the mare Qu’Appelle.
Qu’Appelle. is French for What’s your Name and is also the name of a Canadian village.
French artist Jean–François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) painted the famous Les Glaneuses or The Gleaners oil-on-canvas in 1857.
… Go to Article Reviews roll on
REVIEWS are coming in to Amazon for Bernie Dowling’s non-fiction work 7 Shouts:The Best of My Shout.
Gleaned from seven year’s of his My Shout newspaper columns, the book establishes Australian humour at the off-centre of the Universe.
The first two reviewers each gave 7 Shouts four stars.
Here is what they had to say.… Go to Article
Them ol’ Publisher blues
I came across another mainstream publisher at a conference the other day – very depressing. I don’t mind so much they are in denial that ebooks will send them spiralling into obsolescence just like epublishing sent the big record companies down the drain. If I was in their shoes, I would be dreading the future of the ebook.… Go to Article