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Every tall tale needs its first lie. This time, the old blokes are trying to fool tourists into believing the Tasmanian Tiger isn’t extinct after all.
Which is just as well… because in this comedy, Windy Mountain’s new museum manager is going to need all the help he can get.
This hulking Irishman arrives by taxi late at night — and gets a taste of what's to come when the town’s scrawny old cab driver takes a swing at him.
Mistaken identity.
Old fears. One very large problem.
Because Windy Mountain remembers a man his size. A man called Moose..
This is the first book in a funny mystery-comedy series set on the island of Tasmania at the bottom of Australia. Quirky characters abound, and they’re going to get deeper, dafter and far more unpredictable as the series unfolds.
The whimsical adventures continue with Blokes on a Plane, Whitey and the Six Dwarfs, Blokes in Donegal, Blokes in the House, Who Knew Tasmanian Tigers Eat Apples?, Who Knew Tiger Sharks Also Eat Apples?, The Life and Deaths of Billy Gumboots, and Blokes Send in the Clones. One more book is on the drawing board in this 10-book series.
This is the prequel to the Windy Mountain Tasmanian Tiger series, set more than 25 years before it all began.
If you want laughs, a quirky storyline and eccentric characters, this is the novel for you.
DIDN'T WANT to put it down ... the characters were colorful and fun! This is a quick read and enjoyable!
IF YOU like your humour with a touch of mystery and quirky townsfolk, then you may also enjoy this story.
WHAT MORE can you ask in a cast of characters? The story itself, a quick read, is light-hearted and humorous, and a good start to a series.
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Oodles and Wish-Wash have gone to Ireland, leaving the museum in the hands of Katy, Moose and Joffa. When a garden ornament is gnome-napped, things start spinning out of control.
This will be the fourth in the Windy Mountain Tasmanian Tiger series. But I need your patience because it won't be ready until April 2019.
Lawyer William Clarin might pull rabbits out of his hat in his spare time, but he's not the barrister who's known to the underworld as The Magician because he can make charges go away.
But gangsters visiting Hobart in 1974 with the smell of the new casino in their large Italian noses don't know that in this funny novella.
When William fails to get Mr Biggi off a charge of driving on the wrong side of the road, he has to leg it to escape the mob's wrath.
He gets a job as a magician on an ocean liner in order to escape Tasmania, and finds he's not alone.
This is the first book in the Mad Bill series.
IF YOU enjoy madcap, slapstick comedy, full of coincidence and bad luck, then you may enjoy this. If you’ve read Mr Martin’s other funny novels and novellas and like his style, then this is a treat for you.
GANGSTERS, RABBITS, and a crazy crew make this a humorous tale and a good lead-in for the Bill's further adventures in Escape from Mad Bill's Island.
Major Billcock-Smythe has accidentally rescued the wrong people from an overseas jail and brought 12 illegal aliens back into Australia in this funny novel.
We all know someone like Major B.S. He’s a know-all, a social climber, he’s supremely confident but he’s totally inept.
His inclination this time is to puthis faux pas down to experience and get cracking with his next money-making scheme. But the government doesn’t let you forget, do they!
He doesn’t know it yet but it’s all propelling him towards Mad Bill’s Island.
This is the second in the Mad Bill series. It's a funny mystery novel full of quirky characters, and with a jagged satirical edge.
Major BS really wants to become a hero not a villain. See him get his comeuppance while the man he bullies and belittles becomes the real hero.
A MAIN character you want to vote off the island, or punch in the nose, or both! Clever characters and crazy plot.
EXPECT BOTH DARK and light humor, in addition to fun, quippy dialogue from this novel. I found myself laughing through Major Billycock-Smythe’s series of misadventures where, due to his hardheadedness, grumpiness, and simplemindedness, I didn’t feel too sorry for my joy at his expense. I’d recommend picking up this book for some quick laughs and some easy reading. John Martin has a delightful sense of humor, and his writing style makes this a quick read.
MAJOR B.S. (a very fitting name) is ridiculously annoying, and I admire the writer for managing to keep that level of ridiculousness throughout the whole novel. Major BS is so bad he makes everyone look good. He is very much the cartoon villain, but in this story it works. Paradoxically, it is Major BS who adds a humane touch to this story. He is like the glue that holds everything together.