Slippin' on the Lino
Entertaining, funny, easy reading ... for absolutely everyone!
A great gift, a great permanent bedside book, uplifting and timeless and best of all, good for a laugh.
Can be purchased at all Pillow Talk stores, Mary Ryan Bookstores, Books at Buderim, most other bookstores (it's growing, it's growing!), or through this website.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919) in her poem "Solitude", quite rightly said -
Laugh, and the world laughs with you:
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth
Must borrow its mirth,
It has trouble enough of its own...............
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Slippin' on the Lino is a compilation of family humour columns that Jane wrote for Queensland’s main newspaper, The Courier-Mail, in the 90s. A thoroughly enjoyable read for people of all ages and stages Slippin' on the Lino tells everyday tales of living to which we all relate.
Jane Grieve writes about Sam, Louisa and Jock. Close your eyes, change the names, and they will fit your current or past experiences. The Grieve domestic escapades took place in Australia; are household concerns similar the world over? It makes an interesting comparison. Slippin' on the Lino tells it as it is in Australia.
In Slippin' on the Lino, Jane spills the beans on the truth behind the closed doors of parenting; doors which, for her, emitted all kinds of noises including laughter, crying, roars of frustration, squeals of delight and actually, quite an alarming variety of animal noises if truth be told; which it is, in Slippin’ on the Lino.
Slippin' on the Lino contains 44 short, funny stories, in paperback. White it's a light read in every sense of the word (you can comfortably hold it up in bed, or hide it under the desk at work) nonetheless it is beautifully laid out, carefully edited and subtly illustrated. And well written, actually.
Read Chapters 'Lousy' and 'My Perfect Boy' from Slippin' on the Lino
A number of prominent Australians have endorsed the book including author Hugh Lunn, Ken Cowley of Newscorp, Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame & RM Williams Pty Ltd, Chris Mitchell Editor in Chief of The Australian, & Susan Maushart of The Weekend Australian magazine, Sir Robert Mathers, footwear mogul and Bill Durack, respected architect and member of the Durack Dynasty.
Slippin’ on the Lino
Publisher Jane Grieve
Distributor Dennis Jones & Associates Pty Ltd
Supporting Diabetes Australia - Queensland
A collection of 44 short stories, family humour genre, each a 4 - 5 minute read.
Many have been previously published in The Courier Mail.
Beautifully presented
Designed by Dan Pike of The Letter D
Introduction by Hugh Lunn
Includes an unpublished poem by Dame Mary Durack
Recommended on the cover by Hugh Lunn - author; Susan Maushart – humour journalist; Ken Cowley – newspaper magnate, chairman Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame & RM Williams Pty Ltd; Bill Durack - architect; Sir Robert Mathers – shoe magnate; & Chris Mitchell – editor-in-chief, The Australian newspaper.
5% of the profits to Diabetes Australia - Queensland
*RRP $24.95
Available through this Website @ $24.95 plus postage (Paypal)
*plus postage & handling $6.95 within Australia, $11.95 outside Australia
Available also at all Pillow Talk stores, and respected bookshops including Mary Ryan's Bookstores and Riverbend Books,The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, and Diabetes Australia - Queensland outlets. Also at Bush Christmas, Toowoomba, from 20th to 28th November at the Old Masonic Lodge (next to EmpireTheatre), Hume Street ,Toowoomba.
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