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Robert G. Barrett
Robert G. Barrett’s bestselling novel now an ABC TV Series.
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What could Les Norton possibly be doing in Nimbin, the hippie capital of Australia? And how did the little green tree-frog in Les’s backyard start it all? This novel, is…
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There’s no two ways about Les Nortonthe carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney’s top illegal casino. He’s tough and he’s mean. He’s got a granite jaw…
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Les Norton travels to a quiet little seaside town on the south coast of New South Wales and uncovers what seems to be some very unsavoury goings-on. Can Les solve…
Les Norton catches the extreme water polo semi-final on TV and is amazed to see that the man behind the game is his old mate Neville Nizegy Nixon. So when…
An amusing, often outrageous, collection of the best columns Robert G.Barrett wrote for People magazine, focusing on Australian life and its heroes and villains.together these columns represent an often funny…
Les Norton, the lovable larrikin from the sunshine state, is back and is heading north, with a little bit of work and a hell of a lot of play in…
Goodoo Goodoo Robert G Barrett RRP: $14.95 ISBN: 0732267374 Les Norton is back! This time he’s off to Far North Queensland. What should have been a quick gig on a…
Les figured that by tossing money into the Gull’s movie he’d become the next Sam Goldwyn. Only someone put a bomb on the film set. And who gets the blame…
Set on a fictitious island somewhere in Micronesia, this novel includes magic crystals, UFOs, and mysterious force fields. It also includes gratuitous sex, drugs and violence.
Featuring the hero Les Norton, the legendary witch of old Kings Cross, Rosaleen Norton, this novel acts as a day hunt through Victoria.
Presents three Robert Barrett books together in one volume - two Les Norton novels, Mud Crab Boogie and The Wind and the Monkey , plus Bob’s thoughts on life from…
All it took was a summer’s day and a flat tyre on his pushbike, and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang. Safely…
Newcastle electrician Mick Vincent had almost everything in life he wanted. Jesse Ossbourne, the bookshop owner he loved. A big house at Bar Beach he owned, and a 1936 Buick…
Set in Bondi and the Central Coast, this is vintage Les Norton, who has been called in to help Albanian would-be filmmaker Bodine Menjou locate a missing script. Les is…
What could Les Norton possibly be doing in Nimbin, the hippie capital of Australia? And how did the little green tree-frog in Les’s backyard start it all?
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Celebrating 25 years of Les Norton and Robert Barrett!CELEBRAtING 25 YEARS OF LES NORtON! this book was first published in 1996 under the title RIDER ON tHE StORM AND…
The ultimate Les Norton collection no.1MAXIMUM SECURItY is a collection of three of Robert G Barrett’s Les Norton stories: MUD CRAB BOOGIE Extreme Water Polo is the water polo…
The ultimate Les Norton collection no.2A collection of three of Bob Barrett’s Les Norton stories. LEAVING BONDI - Les figured by tossing $50,000 into the Gull’s movie he’d become…
All Norton wanted was a quiet coffee and Sacher cake at the Hakoah Club in Bondi, and to be left alone to sort out his troubled love life. How he…
When Les Norton moved into his old flame Side Valve Susie’s flat in Bondi for a few days while she was out of town, everything should have been a piece…
Norton needed a holidayanywhereas long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to obligeLes could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was…
The ultimate Les Norton collection no.3CRIME SCENE CESSNOCK Les is back and on the detox … All it took was a summer’s day and a flat tyre on his…
They don’t call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to see to US of ASiestasota, Florida, where it turned out hot, red…
Robert G. Barrett is a self-confessed antagoniser of the literary elite and a master of political incorrectness. For more than a decade now, Robert G. Barrett has been entertaining Australians…
Les Norton is back. Les becomes involved with the Murrumbidgee Mud Crabs a team involved in the new in-sport - extreme water polo. But while things look calm on the…
On an island of sun, surf, beautiful women and mysterious ruins arrives Bondi surf journalist Brian Bradshaw and unexpectedly gets taken literally for the ride of his life. Aussie Vietnam…
Les Norton is back! This time he’s off to Far North Queensland. What should have been a quick gig on a radio station followed by a white- water rafting holiday…
This book was first published in 1996 under the title Rider on the Storm and Other Bits of Barrett. It was a one-off book that got under the radar and…
Nikola Tesla was a scientist whom, some argued, was a greater genius than Einstein. He died in the United States in 1943, but what was he doing in Australia in…
Moving into his old flame Susie’s flat in Bondi should have been a piece of cake for Les Norton ? except that Price and Eddie had other ideas.
There were…
You Wouldn’t Be Dead For Quids is a series of adventures involving Les Norton, a big red-headed country boy from Queensland who is forced to move on the big smoke…
It isn’t every day you help murder someone with poison in an illegal casino, whisk his body halfway across town in a Rolls Royce, after robbing him, then bury his…
Les Norton thought they were going to be the easiest two weeks of his life. Playing minder for a young member of the Royal Family called Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded…
The place is falling down, the council is reclaiming the land, there’s been a murder in Flat 5, and the tenants are the biggest bunch of misfits since the Manson…
All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was…
