When the family finds it hilarious that you've been talked into buying a pair of women's jeans and you're a bloke; when the bathroom floor you've laboured over starts to rise and the toilet begins to talk; when the mystery of keeping children's shoelaces tied becomes too much, turn to Richard Glover, a bloke who's given a lot of thought to life's eternal dilemmas. In Bed with Jocasta is laugh-out-loud funny and presents an insider's view into the family and life in the suburbs.

From the Spartans to Alexander the Great, Paul Chrystal brings the murky world of sex with the Ancient Greeks to life.

Reveals through evocative photographs and informative text the beauty of kitchens designed for real-life cooks and their families, as well as displaying the rich diversity of country style.

While studying at the Woodbridge Academy on Earth, Jocasta is surprised to discover that, along with her friend David, she has been selected to train as a cadet for the prestigious Elite Corporation. This involves training on Mars, far away from her family and home, where she will learn all the skills necessary to become one of the special Elite students, who will enhance the work of the corporation.On her journey, she develops new friendships and meets some strange and interesting characters – the fascinating but hostile Antigone and the excitable Tara. Jocasta finds out that every other cadet possesses a talent or gift, be it transmogrification or telepathic ability, but much to her dismay she seems unable to discover what hers might be. Until, that is, she embarks on an illicit and dangerous journey across the plains of the red planet, leaving behind the safety and security of the Elite life.This is the story, not only of Jocasta’s search for her own unique and elusive ability, but of a secret that has long been buried under the shifting red sands of Mars. Jocasta’s Gift is an adventure story that will appeal to children aged 9 to 14 years who enjoy fantasy and science fiction novels. Author Deborah is inspired by a range of authors, including John Wyndham, Enid Blyton, Michael Morpugo, J. K. Rowling and George Orwell.

When reality, fiction and imagination melanged into the personal diary, writings and religion of an academic schizophrenic within the asylum of mental health protection, Am was born. A unique experience, by a survivor, that you can now revisit, but don't let it get in your head!It is book about survival and the story of one persons survival in a mental health regime!It is a psychological thriller about my attempt to make sense of a confusing life situation.

Jocasta Jones is the best in her field, and the youngest, being in her mid-20s. Studying superheroes has been her life's dream, and now she has the opportunity to work with the world's most elite team of heroes, the Phenoms. Among them is Katerina Gradoff, a superhero with incredible powers, and a woman who instantly enraptures Jocasta. This new job is an opportunity of a lifetime. Can she risk it by getting involved with someone she is studying? And this project is a huge deal for the future of her field. Can she even stop working long enough to get to know her? Katerina is a superhero who always puts her job first, and who cares about her team like they're her family. She has always been a serious person, even if she's only in her 20s. She's never been distracted by love or even lust for that matter, but her new coworker is something else. Can Katerina finally let down some of her walls for this captivating scientist? Not to mention there's a pretty dangerous group of terrorists that the Phenoms are trying to take down. Can she even allow herself to be distracted from the job at hand? Join these two women as they venture into the unknown, both romantically and professionally. With a job like theirs, something wild is bound to happen....

Collection of humorous reflections on life centred on the author's family life with his wife and children. Topics covered include home renovation, shopping, food, body image, backyard cricket, and being a girl magnet. Author publishes a weekly column in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' and presents the drive-time show on ABC Radio Sydney. Previous titles include 'Grin and Bear It' and 'The P-Plate Parent'.

Only upon publication do I realise this book's genre: Horror!The first part of this book Am is only a fragment of a book I wrote largely in the eighties about my search for my mind after a serious mental breakdown after leaving Oxford University in 1976, my subsequent conversion to Christianity and the development of a personal relationship with Jesus.It also describes some of the relationships in my life, my mother, my father, my ex wife and my brothers and sisters, plus a few friends, and associates.Their names are disguised!It is written in broken language to evoke my mentality at the time.Please forgive some of the errors in text, because i haven't had the time or patience(!)to work any more on it because it belongs in the past.However some of the 'errors' are deliberate, I was thinking very much of James Joyce's style in Ulysses.The second half, Regime in the Head, written before AM, is about my life in the mental health system and the Church of England, and is largely a diary.

A delicately layered, humorous novel, deliciously written, ranging over time and place. In the aftermath of Barnaby Rivers' death, complictions arise for three beautiful women: Bella, Ruth and wicked old Jocasta. Now nothing can go on in the old way. Crisis looms. In her funniest novel yet, Barbara Else contrasts attitudes to beauty, motherhood . . . and men. Looking down on it all is Barnaby himself, not sure if he's an angel or ghost.

Drawing upon Italy's distinct socio-cultural history as well as feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to film, Colleen Ryan-Scheutz explores the ways in which Pasolini's representations of women reveal his concerns about the corruption of modern society.