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Dylan is an imaginative twelve-year-old boy who discovers that his talent for folding and flying paper planes could take him to the World Paper Plane Championship. With a great challenge soaring ahead and a goal to fly into the number one spot, there's no telling how far he can g...o.
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Fifteen-year-old Jack has just discovered the one thing he loves, and is really good at- go kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race-car driver with a dark past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his reckless streak. Only then... will he be in with a chance to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including his ruthless rival Dean, and win the National title. Now a major Australian motion picture - in cinemas January 2019.
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Knockabout brothers Steve and Gus Worland know a good joke when they hear one, and this smorgasbord of their favourite Aussie gags and yarns will keep the man in your life giggling all the way to the dunny and back. Full of the Worland brothers' favourite jokes about being a dad,... a son, a mate, a husband and much, much more, this collection gives you their best knock knocks, lightbulb jokes, observational gags, funny yarns, the longest and shortest joke in the world ... and of course, their best and most time-honoured dad jokes. Through laughter and a tipping of the hat to the important things in life, The Bloke-a-Saurus also presents the wisdom of the ages with the stories and bon mots that have helped grow boys into men.
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Fifteen-year-old Jack has just discovered the one thing he loves, and is really good at: go kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race-car driver with a dark past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his reckless streak. Only then... will he be in with a chance to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including his ruthless rival Dean, and win the National title.
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Combustion takes you on a heart-pounding thrill ride as an airborne nano-tech virus turns every vehicle in the city into a ticking time bomb. Los Angeles. Traffic clogs the streets. Smog chokes the city. And Zac Bunsen is going to burn it all down. On a ruthless quest to save the... planet, Bunsen releases the Swarm, an airborne nanotech virus that targets combustion engines and detonates their fuel supply. It is spectacularly, appallingly successful. Terror and chaos reign as the City of Angels explodes. Every vehicle is now a deadly bomb and every freeway a war zone littered with bodies and twisted wrecks. NASA astronaut Judd Bell and his best mate, Aussie chopper pilot Corey Purchase, must navigate the burning city in a desperate mission to stop Bunsen before he can execute the last phase of his horrific plan and send mankind back to the Stone Age. 'Fun, exciting, fast paced and action packed.' Book'd Out Praise for Steve Worland's Velocity 'A brilliant rollercoaster ride of a novel. I couldn't put it down.' Hugh Jackman 'A cinematic blockbuster.' Men's Fitness 'Perfectly executed and fabulous fun.' Bookseller+Publisher
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Hang on tight as Quick catapults you from Melbourne to Monaco and into a thrilling chase. Melbourne, Australia: Round one of the Formula One World Championship. Billy Hotchkiss no longer races a V8 Supercar, but that doesn't mean he's lost the need for speed. When the young cop u...ncovers a diamond heist in progress he leaps into action and almost captures the thieves. Lyon, France: Interpol are convinced the thieves are connected to Formula One. And they think this Australian ex-race driver is just the guy to stop them. Sent undercover with an unwilling French partner, Billy is thrust into the glamorous world of international motor racing as the diamond heists continue. But as Billy closes in on the thieves a far more sinister threat is revealed. With the fate of a city and the lives of half a million people in the balance, Billy will need to drive like never before to stop the worse act of terror since 9/11.
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Hang on tight as Quick catapults you from Melbourne to Monaco and into a thrilling chase. Melbourne, Australia: Round one of the Formula One World Championship. Billy Hotchkiss no longer races a V8 Supercar, but that doesn't mean he's lost the need for speed. When the young cop u...ncovers a diamond heist in progress he leaps into action and almost captures the thieves. Lyon, France: Interpol are convinced the thieves are connected to Formula One. And they think this Australian ex-race driver is just the guy to stop them. Sent undercover with an unwilling French partner, Billy is thrust into the glamorous world of international motor racing as the diamond heists continue. But as Billy closes in on the thieves a far more sinister threat is revealed. With the fate of a city and the lives of half a million people in the balance, Billy will need to drive like never before to stop the worse act of terror since 9/11.
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Paper Planes is based on the award-winning motion picture screenplay by Robert Connolly and Steve Worland. One paper plane flies straight and fast and true. Dylan's. Twelve-year-old Dylan Webber lives in outback Western Australia in a small country town. When he discovers he has ...a talent for folding and flying paper planes, Dylan begins a journey to reach the World Junior Paper Plane Championships in Japan. Along the way he makes unlikely new friends, clashes with powerful rivals and comes to terms with his family's past before facing his greatest challenge - to create a paper plane that will compete with the best in the world. Steve Worland brings you the exciting, heartwarming story of Paper Planes, adapted from the award-winning family film that features a cast of Australia's finest actors, including Sam Worthington, Deborah Mailman, David Wenham and Ed Oxenbould.
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From the hi-tech corridors of NASA to the unforgiving desert of the Australian Outback, Steve Worland's explosive action thriller Velocity follows astronaut Judd Bell's life-or-death mission to find and destroy a hijacked space shuttle loaded with enough weapons-grade Uranium-235... to irradiate Manhattan - and save the woman he loves.
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From the hi-tech corridors of NASA to the unforgiving desert of the Australian Outback, Steve Worland's explosive action thriller Velocity follows astronaut Judd Bell's life-or-death mission to find and destroy a hijacked space shuttle loaded with enough weapons-grade Uranium-235... to irradiate Manhattan - and save the woman he loves.
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