Jeffrey Case is a taxi driver who wants to play Hamlet.

He does!  Once!

Jeffrey is called in as an understudy at two hours notice and gives the most execrable performance of Hamlet in the history of theatre. Shadowy figures observe the performance.  There are consequences.  In a highrise apartment building a number of people reside.  All of them are dressed as characters in Shakespeare's plays.  The man living in the penthouse apartment looks and dresses like Shakespeare.  Strange chants and imprecations come from a windowless room on the second floor.  Mysterious ice cream vans arrive and depart this location.  Jeffrey Case stumbles into a nightmare world of drugs, sex, magic, and Shakespeare as he tries to unravel the mystery of the severed head and the two-hundred-thousand dollars mysteriously left in his taxi by the beautiful redhead in the silky green dress.  Is Shakespeare really alive?  Who are the mysterious characters?  Who is running the drug racket in Jeffrey's hometown of Sun City?

Will Jeffrey ever get laid?  Will he ever get to bed?

A fine audio recording of this popular novel.

                       $30 includes postage anywhere in Australia.

                           International postage by negotiation.

This is a book you can't put down until you finish the last sentence. The climax will amaze you and leave you rolling on the floor with laughter.

Max Colwell is a great South Australian writer.  It is a privilege to have recorded three of his books for sale.  Max's books can be purchased direct from his web site:

www.maxcolwell.net

Everyone in Mike's street was born on their kitchen tables. The time was the Great Depression.

The place was an Australian working-class community. Everyone was battling to survive, but to ten-year-old Mike and his mates, Siddy and Fred, the situation seemed quite normal.

The youngsters were part of a nearly derelict society. Some people, like the pretty young Oppos' teacher, clung to hopes of a better life. Others, like Miss Jam, who Siddy said was a witch, clung to the last rags of existence.

This genuinely Australian novel gives a vivid picture of life among the dispossessed, and yet it is full of wry and sometimes riotous humour. The author writes from first-hand experience of the people and the era, and he "tells it like it was".

HALF DAYS AND PATCHED PANTS: $20 including postage

In 1938, Mike was seventeen and the depression just about over. Things weren't as bad as they had been when he lived down the hill, but they weren't too good, either.  So Mike's Uncle Harry, being a careful sort of man, told him it was time he put childish things behind him and started to earn his keep.

Max Colwell paints a vivid and nostalgic picture of life as it appeared to a young man before the outbreak of the Second World War.

We follow Mike's journey as he learns about life, about the hopes and dreams of ordinary working men and women, about pigeon and horse racing, about girls and love, and about death; about desperation, and about the responsibilities of growing up.

Full Days and Pressed Pants is a blend of wry humour and deep compassion, rich in the down-to-earth flavour of the Australian vernacular, and written with sincerity and conviction.

FULL DAYS AND PRESSED PANTS :  $20 INCLUDING POSTAGE

Glorious Days... follows on from Full Days and Pressed Pants. Now we find Mike as an army conscript, a 'Chocolate Soldier' among teenagers from all walks of life, many of whom had never been away from home in their lives.

There is Barney from Broken Hill, an authority on all things from ingrown toenails to milking cows; Nugent, who started wheezing every time his grandmother opened the ice-chest door; the Dome, who had swallowed an encyclopedia when he was a kid and was halfway to being a genius; and the Tube who had had so many operations that he reckoned he had nothing left inside.

There were also sergeants like Burke, who Barney reckoned was as useless as a kookaburra with a sore throat when it came to reading a map.

In this book, Max Colwell describes how army training brought the worst and best out of boys as they were turned into men, a process that gave birth to a particular brand of wry humour.

You will laugh and be brought close to tears as you join Mike and his friends through their Glorious Days in Khaki Pants.

GLORIOUS DAYS AND KHAKI PANTS :  $20 INCLUDING POSTAGE