Plugger and the Mighty Swans (Jim Main)

Plugger and the Mighty Swans

Jim Main

Blurb: This is one of those special books. Warm but revealing. Taking you into the boardroom, the change rooms, the private boxes... the centre of the Sydney Cricket Ground at midnight and a strange, strange ritual.

Jim Main is a passionate - 'yes, obsessed' - Swans fan. He's also one of Australia's top football writers and sports authors. In Plugger and the Mighty Swans he takes you behind the scenes of the Swans' all but unbelievable run to the 1996 Grand Final.

You're there as the Swans nearly die and are only saved by a rival club (Collingwood) which doesn't want another club (Carlton) to sneak an unfair advantage. You're there for the dash to sign goal king Tony 'Plugger' Lockett. You're there in the 1960s, 50s, 40s, 30s, way back to the 1860s. 

ISBN: 1863502297 (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Wilkinson Books

Pages: 292 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Libraries across Australia where you can get the book from

2. Buy from Oz Books

3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. Football magazine the author writes for

5. Official site of the Sydney Swans

Cairo Jim and the Lagoon of Tidal Magnificence (Geoffrey McSkimming)

Cairo Jim and the Lagoon of Tidal Magnificence

Geoffrey McSkimming

Blurb: High in the crater of an extinct, jungle-covered volcano in Sumatra, a legendary Ancient Palace is thought to exist...

What astounding secret does this Palace harbour? Where is the missing Turkish Women's Olympic Championship Tent Erection Team?

What has the Glamourdust Glove and Gusset Company got to do with it? Will Cairo Jim (that well-known archaeologist and little-known poet) and his friends, Doris the macaw, Brendan the Wonder Camel and Jocelyn Osgood of Valkyrian Airways, discover the amazing truth? Do you know your top button is undone?

Another action-packed, breathless romp of historical whimsy from the pen of Geoffrey McSkimming!

ISBN: 0733602959 (Paperback)

Year: 2000

Publisher: Hodder

Pages: 239 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's Wikipedia page

2. Good reads page

3. Google books page

4. Buy Cairo Jim books from Amazon

5. Series Wikipedia page