Coffee Break Comedies

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Round the Bend

Jennifer F. Reeves

Cover of Round the Bend, Dead Duck: a red and white paddle steamer on a river, its decks lined with excited birdwatchers pointing huge camera lenses, while a worried hunter with a shotgun and his hound stand at the rail and a duck sits calmly on deck between them.

Round the Bend, Book One

Dead Duck

Jennifer F. Reeves

What do you do when three endangered bird species all go extinct on your watch?

Add a paranoid water inspector who averages over a dozen death threats a week, most of which are from his wife, and an insecure Chef who refuses to come out of the pantry.

Throw in pensioners’ hot flushes that become instant power surges …

and you have one Riverboat Captain slowly going round the bend.

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Cover of Round the Bend, Book 2, Moore's Code: the paddle steamer rounds a bend under big river red gums, an elderly couple staring down in horror from the deck at two boys arguing in a canoe full of boomerangs and didgeridoos marked Boomerangs Half Price, while a furious inspector waves his ticket book from a small boat behind.

Round the Bend, Book Two

Moore’s Code

Jennifer F. Reeves

The Waterways Inspector has pushed the Captain’s buttons once too often, and there’s about to be a reckoning.

Heads up … it’s not the Captain.

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A weathered timber signpost reading Bush and Ranger stands in dry scrub beside a dirt track, with an old flintlock pistol and a battered felt hat lying at its foot and a tumbledown hut in the distance.

Bush and Ranger is based on the high spirited antics of them two rogue Australian bushrangers, Frank Gardiner and Ben Hall.

With Ancestors like these, it is no wonder Australia’s past is the World’s best kept secret.

Cover of Bush and Ranger, Book 1, The Bust: two scruffy young bushrangers hold up a Cobb and Co coach on a dusty bush track, while a bored, bearded driver looks on and passengers' hands surrender a pocket watch, a bra and some knitting through the window.

Bush and Ranger, Book One

The Bust

Jennifer F. Reeves

Two young teenagers, homeless and starving, decide to become bushrangers.

They rob a coach, and their net gain is a broken pocket watch, a skein of wool (no needles, in case they hurt themselves), and a training bra.

They desperately need another plan.

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Cover of Bush and Ranger, Book 2, Line 'Em Up and Shoot 'Em: at dusk in a bush camp, two boys sit on a fallen log by a small campfire, the older one gently patting a koala that the younger boy hugs, a ball and chain on its ankle, while bearded bushrangers talk beside their horses and a canvas tent behind them.

Bush and Ranger, Book Two

Line ’Em Up and Shoot ’Em

Jennifer F. Reeves

The boys, Matt Bush and Josh Ranger, meet up with Frank Gardiner and Ben Hall.

If they thought their prayers were answered, they soon found out starvation was by far the safest option.

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We Were Here First

Charlie and Cliff

Cover of We Were Here First, Book 1, Racial Dog: in a 1970s lounge room, a startled priest holding a cup of tea finds a wet streak down his trouser leg and a puddle by his shoe, a scruffy little dog right beside him, while Mum covers her mouth in horror and Dad grins in his armchair with a beer.

We Were Here First, Book One

Racial Dog

Charlie and Cliff

What do you do when the new priest gets baptised by the family dog, Dad’s home brew could strip paint, and your son decides the side of the house needs a paint job and feels a ‘Michelangelo’ urge coming on?

You put the kettle on.

The Mullets were here first. And they’re not going anywhere.

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Cover of We Were Here First, Book 2, The Sistine Wall: a young man on a ladder paints Michelangelo's Creation of Adam across the side of a weatherboard house, while Dad sits below with a beer among his half-carved boomerangs, Mum looks on, a priest and a neighbour arrive with paint tins, and two teenagers lean on a motorbike. A sign reads Boomerangs and Woomeras for sale, with New Laid Eggs scrawled underneath in red in a child's handwriting.

We Were Here First, Book Two

The Sistine Wall

Charlie and Cliff

When Albert is offered five thousand dollars for a huge wall mural by two Sydney art dealers, simultaneously two separate charity groups decide to make the Mullets their priority for a total house restoration.

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