{"product_id":"its-a-scorcher-9780733652912","title":"It's a Scorcher!","description":"\u003cb\u003eBestselling author and acclaimed actor William McInnes returns with a collection of hilarious and heartwarming stories about those magical, roastingly hot months that make an Australian summer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThere is something about long, hot summer days that stirs our emotions. It's all about holidays, festivals, family and Christmas; a time for swimming, a hit of backyard cricket or firing up the barbie. It's the deafening sound of cicadas, the ticking of a backyard sprinkler, the pain of a wayward bindi or the sting of sunburnt shoulders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this collection of nostalgic stories that will make you laugh and make you cry, William McInnes recalls moments in time and memories of summers past. He takes us back to the energy-sapping heat of Redcliffe in the 1960s and 70s, ruminates on budgie smugglers, remembers holiday road trips that went on forever and epic Boxing Day Tests that stopped fans in their tracks. This is a book about the Australia we are and the Australia we were - and the magic of those boiling-hot days when you wake up and know . . . it's going to be a scorcher! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'William McInnes is a natural storyteller in the backyard barbecue-stopper style of your favourite raconteur uncle . . . As sweet and familiar as an Iced Vovo, this is comfort reading for the holidays' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCanberra Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the writing of William McInnes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A mix of memoir, observation and discourse, delivered in the seemingly off-hand manner of a backyard semiotician' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Non-fiction Pick of the Week for \u003ci\u003eYeah, Nah!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Warm and engaging . . . feels a little bit like home' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'If there is a quintessence of Australia at its best, William McInnes has distilled it' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Warm, nostalgic, funny and undeniably Australian' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William McInnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.01w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780733652912","brand":"Hachette Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45486736375945,"sku":"9780733652912","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_cb30ad5a-d009-4c02-bad6-879b1ffe8ea3.jpg?v=1775542766","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/its-a-scorcher-9780733652912","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}