Turn Santa’s sack into a book bonanza filled with satire, science and scallywaggery, a Christmas cornucopia of Capricornian crime, comedy, conspiracy and chemistry.
A stocking filler full of science fact, DR. KARL’S SURFING SAFARI THROUGH SCIENCE catches the wave of interest in climate change, carbon corralling, and how to make the best coffee.
The Universe is expanding and so is our knowledge and Dr. Karl is hell bent in educating us in the most entertaining way.
From the biology of self repairing lungs to transient anuses to the astronomically astonishing migrating planets and immeasurable black holes, and to the current crisis of coronavirus and how copper may cause it to come a cropper.
Dr. Karl also tackles certain conspiracy theories orbiting the virus and the mania regarding 5G. And the book comes with pop up Karl holograms!
How cool to be cruising with Kruszelnicki!
Covid and Conspiracies bulk up the content in the two for the price of one almanac, The Chaser Annual 2020 and The Shovel 2020
Stories in the book include, ABC Forced To Sack Proof-Readers Due To Liberal Party Budget Cunts, Mark Zuckerberg – Dead At 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts, NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government, Government Hires NBN Co to Slow Transmission Speed Of Covid-19, ‘Bunnings Karen’ Flees Store After Staff Tell Her There Are A Dozen 5G Antennas In Aisle 14, Daniel Andrews Refuses To Scrap 9pm Curfew But Agrees To Let Melburnians Read In Bed Until 9:30 and Bettina Arndt Gives Back Order Of Australia After Realising She Is Denying A More-Deserving Man.
The Annual also reviews Pete Evan’s new cookbook: ‘100 Simple Conspiracy Theories to Cook Up at Home’, Why CovidSafe was the worst dating app of 2020, ‘Responsibility’ the board game. Can you get Scott Morrison to answer your question?, and a Free 2021 planner: Write down all your goals for the year ahead then cross them off one-by-one as they become unattainable due to a global economic crises, pandemic or natural disaster!
There’s an Exclusive opinion piece by Andrew Bolt on why Dan Andrews is to blame for the Covid-19 virus that doesn’t exist and coverage from the future of what life will be like if Trump wins, Joe Biden wins but Trump claims victory, or Kanye West wins.
One of the writers attributed to The Chaser Annual 2020 is Dom Knight who has been flexing his lexicon and produced the 2020 Dictionary. A comic compendium of chaos and catastrophe rather than a dinkum dictionary, it’s an A-Z of the go to woe that was 2020, with plenty of 2020 hindsight.
Sesquipedalian by its own admission, THE 2020 DICTIONARY dichotomises a year that many would gladly see canceled – and for many it was – a year where toilet rolls begat bad role models, where wearing masks in a bank was seen as normal, and where greetings resembled Watusi dance steps.
Clear of Covid, SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME is an essential guide to crime fiction born out of Australia and New Zealand.
Written by Craig Sisterson, SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME is the first comprehensive guide to modern crime writing from Down Under, a field where most of the participants are punching well above their weight.
Aficionados will know most of the company presented, but in a field so vast and rich, some will slip through the cracks. I, for one, am grateful that a number of Kiwi authors have been brought to my attention.
SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME doesn’t confine itself to books. It also examines and in some cases exhumes Antipodean crime on screen, both TV and film over the past twenty-five years.
SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME by Craig Sisterson is published by Oldcastle
THE 2020 DICTIONARY by Dominic Knight is published by Allen& Unwin
DR KARL’S SURFING SAFARI by Karl Kruszelnicki is published by ABC
THE CHASER/THE SHOVEL ANNUAL 2020 is published by The Chaser