For every car tragic out there - this is the one laugh-out-loud book you'll want to read this year...

Australia's favourite motoring journalist, Stephen Corby is our Jeremy Clarkson - just a bit younger, funnier and less pompous. Drives a Bit Funny is part-memoir, part stories from a car-obsessive. It's a collection of hilarious, self-deprecating, poignant and heartwarming stories that cover Stephen's life in cars: from the battered Land Rover that his grandfather taught him to drive in to the humble Holden Astra he had to buy when his first kid came along; to the car crashes he's been in and why Australia is his least favourite country in the world to drive; the reason why the sight of an old Audi TT makes him cry, and so much more...

'Corby is a treasure. I came for all the wild and brilliant yarns about the cars. I stayed for the beautiful writer behind the wheel.' Trent Dalton

'Corby is the (second) funniest man I know. What magic does he weave? He actually makes me want to read about cars. I gulped this up. Laugh, cried. Wanted more, more. (Also, a hoon-mobile.) He is the Jeremy Clarkson of Australia, but better. Please can he never stop talking about cars.' Nikki Gemmell

Details

ISBN13: 9781460768488
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 288
Edition:
Publication Date: 28 Jul 2026
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication City, Country: New South Wales, Australia
Dimensions (cm): 23.5(H)x15.5(L)x2.1(W)367
Weight (gm): 367

Author Biography

Stephen Corby stumbled into writing about cars after being knocked off the motorcycle he'd been writing about by a mob of angry and malicious kangaroos. Or that's what he says, anyway. Back in the early 1990s, Stephen was working at The Canberra Times, writing about everything from politics to exciting Canberra night life, but for fun he wrote about motorcycles. After crashing a bike he'd borrowed, he made up a colourful series of excuses, which got the attention of the motoring editor, who went on to encourage him to write about cars instead. The rest, as they say, is history. A journalist for over 35 years, Stephen has written on politics, sport, music, beer, tech, business and travel across print and online for publications including The Evening Standard, The Canberra Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Women's Weekly, Men's Health, The Australian and Gourmet Traveller. But largely he has written about motoring and previously edited both Top Gear Australia and Wheels magazine. For the past several years, he has written a high-profile column in The Weekend Australian Magazine which has garnered a big and fanatical following.

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