Big Book Bundle - Five Tim Ross Bestselling Books
Five books. One very good-looking stack.
Go big with this bumper bundle of Tim Ross favourites, featuring the brand new Have A Good Weekend, along with Chuck a U-ey, Motel, The Rumpus and Bewdy x Casserole.
Packed with stories and images of brilliant buildings, roadside oddities, motels, modernist gems, memorable meals and plenty of Australian nostalgia, this collection is a joyful celebration of the places, people and peculiar details that make this country so wonderfully unique.
Perfect for design lovers, architecture enthusiasts, road-trippers, collectors and anyone who appreciates the beauty in a fibro house, a vintage motel sign or a really good casserole.
Bundle includes:
- Have A Good Weekend
- Chuck a U-ey
- Motel
- The Rumpus
- Bewdy x Casserole
RRP: $189.75
Bundle price: $144.95
Australia may not have invented the weekend, but we certainly made it our own. With an embarrassment of open spaces and sunshine to burn, we’ve always managed to squeeze every last drop out of the best two days of the week.
In this new book, Tim Ross pays tribute to our treasured leisure time, presenting a kaleidoscope of evocative images of Australians at play, drawn from the incredible collection of the National Archives of Australia.
Whether it’s catching a wave, hitting the slopes, chasing a ball, having a BBQ in the park or watching the afternoon slip away in a beer garden, you’re having a good weekend.
Soft cover - 210mm x 210mm x 12mm - 112 pages.
Written by Tim Ross.
Designed in Australia on Gadigal Land.
Chuck A U-ey - Images of Australians and their cars
Australians tend only to add -ey to words describing something they love. And Australians love cars. Aside from the A-to-B solution in a land of sweeping plains and dual carriageways, our cars are nicely parked in our memories. Chuck a U-ey is a pictorial road trip celebrating Australia’s relationship with its four-wheeled friend.
Once again, Tim has partnered with the National Archives of Australia to uncover a treasure trove of evocative images that show our enduring love for automobiles.
"Given our tyrannies of distance, it's no surprise Australians embraced the automobile, but cars have always meant more to us than simply a way to get from A to B. Chuck a U-ey is unashamedly nostalgic, and takes us back to a time before air bags, air conditioning and GPS navigation. It's a love letter to our old Holdens, Fords, Chryslers, VWs... even the Datsun 180B." - Tim Ross
Soft cover - 210mm x 210mm x 8mm - 80 pages.
Written by Tim Ross.
Designed in Australia on Gadigal Land.
MOTEL - Images of Australia on Holidays
If any country was born to holiday, it’s Australia.
Sun, space, beaches – the desire to hit the road and “get out of town” remains a strong and enduring part of our cultural identity. Many of us remember the summer ritual of packing up the car with half the stuff we owned and heading for our chosen “spot” in often incident-packed road trips.
Central to those memorable journeys was the motel. “We’ll stay a night in Gundagai,” Dad would say, to break up the trip. Discovering the configuration of a new motel was all part of the holiday adventure – did it have a colour TV? The little packs of cereal? A couple of complimentary Arrowroots to go with the free tea and coffee? Bricks on the inside as well as the out?
In his book Motel, Tim Ross captures the heyday of Australia’s motels via a deep trawl through the National Archives, presenting a fascinating slideshow of Australians on holidays between 1950 and 1989.
A pictorial love letter to a somewhat bygone era, it captures the accessible glamour and car-friendly convenience of the road-side motel, from Gold Coast ‘palaces’ to out-of-the-way comfort stops (some with attached restaurant! Dinner: 6.30-8pm).
Motel is an affectionate tribute to one of this country’s greatest democratic institutions. From Prime Ministers to punters, at some stage we’ve all had to lay our head down at a welcoming motel as the sun sets on the highway.
2025 Revised Edition - Soft cover - 210mm x 210mm x 8mm - 104 pages.
Written by Tim Ross.
Designed in Australia on Gadigal Land.
The Rumpus Room
Now in its fourth reprint, Tim's bestselling selection of stories from the suburbs has been re-released with this new, revised edition.
From the beachside holiday house to the backyard pool and the rumpus room, the architecture of the suburbs forms the backdrop to a uniquely Australian way of life. Ross roams through these familiar places to paint a picture of Australian domesticity and its relationship to the Australian psyche in all its funny, nostalgic, ironic and often acutely cringe-worthy glory.
Size: 210 x 210, paperback, 98 pages
Revised 2024 Edition
Written by Tim Ross.
Designed in Australia on Gadigal Land.
BEWDY
A collection of short stories.
The unlevel playing field of the Kellogg’s Variety pack of cereals… the rustle of foil coming off the pav in the kitchen on Christmas day..the pre-pubescent pecking order around the school bubbler…. the unforeseen hostility of powerwalking baby boomers… the dark art of spending time alone… … and the sad and somewhat sage advice of the Lonesome Loser.
In Bewdy, Tim Ross deftly captures the conundrums, vignettes and milestones that life throws our way; celebrating a world in which we often borrow from the memories of others while lamenting the sad demise of the communal bowl of Cheezels.
CASSEROLE
Furniture collecting, love in your twenties, old school footy grounds, parents, holidays with friends, record players, old Holdens and being middle-aged at a music festival… these are just a few of the topics Tim Ross offers his unique perspective on in his new mini book, Casserole. Part trip down memory lane, part musing on obsessions, parenting, aging, orange casserole dishes and more. This isn’t a recipe book but it is comfort reading.
Size: 180mm x 110mm, Paperback, 122 pages
Written by Tim Ross.
Designed in Australia on Gadigal land.