Since launching her first best seller "I've Met Some Bloody Wags!" by biting the top off a stubbie of beer with her teeth on the Midday Show, Sandy Thorne has spent over 20 years travelling the world and promoting bush humour. The Battler books are based on the hard-as-nails men of the land that called the most remote corners of the Outback their home. Battler O'Brien, from way out back of Bourke, a larikin sheep cocky, gets a vacation when his missus wins a holiday on the Gold Coast. Not only do they have to try to get through shearing season, to get ready for their long awaited for holiday, but there's plenty more chaos on the holiday itself - the kids have never seen the sea, Battler has never seen the brief-as-brief bikinis and the topless sheilas... they're all just about go completely woomba!.
