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25.01.2022 THIS FATHER’S DAY, BUY DAD OR YOURSELF SOMETHING TIMELESS, HILARIOUS, VILLAINOUS, AND A LITTLE BIT BRILLIANT. They have been called the Best books about motorcycle-riding ever written. They have also been called Offensive, Appalling, Terrifying, and Moby Dick with swearing. ... You will laugh, you will cry and you will congratulate yourself on making the right lifestyle choices, as opposed to the book’s author, whose choices have never been well-considered. Boris Mihailovic has been a failed motorcycle racer, an outlaw motorcycle club member, a chronic abuser of recreational drugs, and one of Australia’s most cutting social observers. His books are hilarious, brutal, insightful, and remorseless, his tales delight and appal often at the same time. A deeply flawed creature carved from wicked stubbornness, you’re invited to join him in a series of quite terrible, but equally side-splitting, tales of his exploits and confessions. WHAT DO THE CRITICS KNOW? Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible. Richard Feidler, ABC Eye-wateringly bad behaviour as told by a true larrikin story-teller. I found it hilarious and fascinating. Ruby’s review on Goodreads Mihailovic uses humour like most people use their fists. Courier Mail A pulse-pounding white-knuckle ride. People Magazine Do we have enough police dogs for him? NSW Police Force Surely it’s not too late to deport the clown? Homeland Security You can get all three books, or just the latest one at the link below. We ship all over the world and all prices are in Australian dollars, which is a crappy currency worth about three bananas. www.shocknawe.com.au

24.01.2022 Always great to get a good review.

24.01.2022 We are pleased to advise that the following businesses are now stocking The Wisdom of the Road Gods. If you do not wish to shop on-line because demons, or something, then just go for a ride to one of these places, speak the magic words : "Giz Borrie's book!" and away ya go... Justin Chisholm... Trooper Lu's Garage 3/80 Heathcote Rd, Moorebank NSW 2170 (02) 9602 3773 WEBSITE: www.trooperlu.com.au/ Kim Grace Grey Gum Cafe 8679 Putty Rd, Putty NSW 2330 (02) 6579 7015 Nevermind Adventure 49 Pakington St, Geelong West VIC 3218 (03) 5221 9053 Matthew Hincks SC-Project Oceania Office / Showroom: Unit 2 / 24 Mullingar Way LANDSDALE PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA Oceania Website: www.sc-project.com.au Direct Email: [email protected] Office Phone: 1800 603 041 Direct Mobile: (+61) 0450 901 679

23.01.2022 Another 150 orders fulfilled!

23.01.2022 How books are launched during the Plague

22.01.2022 It's great to get some feedback from readers. Karlos Neale "One of the lucky ones here to receive the book before the weekend, thanks again. Those waiting will not be disappointed, I'm a few chapters in and it's difficult to put down. My vocabulary has also increased, exponentially"

21.01.2022 And off go the first 36 copies.

19.01.2022 THE DAY OF THE FATHER COMES PLEASE DON’T DISAPPOINT YOUR DAD WITH A PAIR OF SOCKS How about you buy him a book?... But not just any book, because he might not appreciate Captain Corelli’s Mandolin as much as you might think. Buy him a book that will make him laugh, cry, and congratulate himself on making the right lifestyle choices, as opposed to the book’s author, whose choices have never been well-considered. The author of two previous and highly-acclaimed books, My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me, and At The Altar Of The Road Gods, has finally penned his long-awaited third book The Wisdom Of The Road Gods. Boris Mihailovic has been a failed motorcycle racer, an outlaw motorcycle club member, a chronic abuser of recreational drugs, and one of Australia’s most cutting social observers. His books are hilarious, brutal, insightful, and remorseless, his tales delight and appal often at the same time. A deeply flawed creature carved from wicked stubbornness, you’re invited to join him in a series of quite terrible, but equally side-splitting, tales of his exploits and confessions. Your father, son, husband, or boyfriend will love them. More than a pair of socks. But not as much as you. WHAT DO THE CRITICS KNOW? Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible. Richard Feidler, ABC Eye-wateringly bad behaviour as told by a true larrikin story-teller. I found it hilarious and fascinating. Ruby’s review on Goodreads Mihailovic uses humour like most people use their fists. Courier Mail A pulse-pounding white-knuckle ride. People Magazine Do we have enough police dogs for him? NSW Police Force Surely it’s not too late to deport the clown? Homeland Security You can get all three books, or just the latest one at the link below. We ship all over the world and all prices are in Australian dollars, which is a crappy currency worth about three bananas. www.shocknawe.com.au

19.01.2022 THESE HAVE TO BE THE BEST BOOKS ABOUT MOTORCYCLING EVER WRITTEN Buy yourself a book that will make you laugh, cry, and congratulate yourself on making the right lifestyle choices, as opposed to the book’s author, whose choices have never been well-considered. The author of two previous and highly-acclaimed books, My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me, and At The Altar Of The Road Gods, has finally penned his long-awaited third book The Wisdom Of The Road Gods.... Boris Mihailovic has been a failed motorcycle racer, an outlaw motorcycle club member, a chronic abuser of recreational drugs, and one of Australia’s most cutting social observers. His books are hilarious, brutal, insightful, and remorseless, his tales delight and appal often at the same time. A deeply flawed creature carved from wicked stubbornness, you’re invited to join him in a series of quite terrible, but equally side-splitting, tales of his exploits and confessions. WHAT DO THE CRITICS KNOW? Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible. Richard Feidler, ABC Eye-wateringly bad behaviour as told by a true larrikin story-teller. I found it hilarious and fascinating. Ruby’s review on Goodreads Mihailovic uses humour like most people use their fists. Courier Mail A pulse-pounding white-knuckle ride. People Magazine Do we have enough police dogs for him? NSW Police Force Surely it’s not too late to deport the clown? Homeland Security You can get all three books, or just the latest one at the link below. We ship all over the world and all prices are in Australian dollars, which is a crappy currency worth about three bananas. www.shocknawe.com.au

16.01.2022 188 orders shipped today

14.01.2022 Kiwi Rider reviews The Wisdom of the Road Gods.

13.01.2022 We are pleased to welcome some more retail outlets who are now stokcing, or will shortly stock The Wisdom Of The Road Gods

12.01.2022 FATHERS DAY IS COMING DO NOT LET DAD DOWN

10.01.2022 As the reviews come in, we'll post them up here...

06.01.2022 Seems to be hitting the spot, which is always great to hear...

06.01.2022 We have been honoured with another book review.

05.01.2022 I have been honoured with a book review (and a forthcoming interview) by none other than Donovan Fourie, who is South Africa's answer to quality motorcycle jour...nalism and crashing the shit out of Ducatis on a media launch. Respect. And he really does sell himself short in the writing department. Book Review: The Wisdom of the Road Gods by Boris Mihailovic Lockdown is a period of self-reflection, self-improvement, self-actualisation and running away from self out of sheer boredom. Donovan Fourie has metaphorically left his bachelor, Lego-filled world for some blissful moments reading the new book by famous Australian motorcycle author Boris Mihailovic, and finds that it annoys him. I hate it when people are better than me at stuff. More infuriatingly, the list of stuff people do better than me is long: an MX rider scrubbing a triple jump that I rolled over in white-knuckled terror. A chisel-jawed jock achieving lap times around Red Star I can’t match. Someone who can solve complex mathematical equations that I gaze upon with gormless stupefaction. Anyone who can tighten a bolt without their motorcycle catching fire. Four-year-olds who can catch a ball without knocking themselves unconscious. The list goes on. Generally, I’m rubbish at nearly everything. The only island of grace in my vast sea of ineptitude is my ability to write; generally, people reading my stories have some vague idea of what I am going on about, and I dare say that people even find some of it enjoyable. With this flimsy twig holding my entire ego aloft, I then read the words of Boris Mihailovic and my grievances at somebody being better than me reach incandescent levels. Boris is an Australian biker, and when we say biker, we are not talking about a Sons of Anarchy patch and a three-year-old bike with 2000km on the clock. He was the president of an outlaw club in the 80s, the sort that had their photos up on police station walls, and lived their lives around motorcycles accompanied by a fog of booze, drugs, women and brawling. In his next life, he switched from police chases to journalism as an article writer, an editor and later a book author. He has his own website at www.bikeme.tv and has written for publications in Australia and throughout. Non-Australian readers might be more familiar with his satirical work at the Dear George (https://www.facebook.com/deargeorge99/) page on Facebook, and more recently his Dear MotoGP page (https://www.facebook.com/Dear-Motogp-296577314507571). Reading his road tests, reports, anecdotes and satire fuels enragements within my soul that I did not know existed. Beneath the bouts of outward laughter at his written wit, the inward me is sobbing at the anguish of knowing that my writing will never be that good. Especially when we write similar stories and I peruse his writing with my own cussing voice-over often questioning the reasons I didn’t write it like that. Previously, he has published two books the hilariously-named My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me and At the Altar of the Road Gods. Each is a series of anecdotes about Boris and friends’ mad-capped adventures of biking, booze, drugs, women, police and the life of an outlaw biker. Featuring prominently are the stories from the Green Pirate House, a run-down dwelling in Sydney that he and his friends chose based more on its spacious garage rather than whether the windows had glass in them or not. The stories vary between memories from starting his biking life while in high school, to moving through the world of an outlaw biker and the jaw-dropping tales that ensued, to his later life as a motorcycle journalist and the journeys that inspired. Each story will resonate with motorcyclists non-motorcyclists not excluded either by way of a knowledgeable nod or by wide mouthed wonderment. What will appeal to all readers is how annoyingly well each story is written and how sidesplittingly funny they are. Then we get to his third book The Wisdom of the Road Gods. Here, Boris’s writing takes a slightly different turn; it’s still annoyingly well written, and there are many moments of spraying your coffee in hysterics. These include an ill-fated hunting trip where one member of the group accidentally impales himself with his own crossbow, a sea cruise where the usual, floral-shirted holiday makers had to mix with outlaw biker Boris and his behemoth Russian friend who’s claim to fame is escaping from a Red Army prison cell, and two near-death experiences involving hitting a kangaroo on a Victory and crushing his hand in a separate crash with the ensuing hysterics of stubborn Boris in a hospital. While each story throughout the book has its share of hilarity, there are stories of a more sobering nature, such as the death of an old biking friend and the touching tale of his last months, the spreading of his ashes by a naked lady from the back of a motorcycle at midnight and then there are the tales of the Balkans, where Boris rides through Europe, meets his Serbian family and discovers his roots, with the trials and tribulations of his ancestry. In particular, these stories take a turn from the former hard-ass biker themes and show a truly soft side to even the hardest of bikers. For someone like me, wanting nothing more than huge cackles and tomfoolery, stories like these should be dealbreakers. However, as they unravelled, the pages kept turning, time kept slowing, eyes stayed fixed upon the words. The narration unfolded and dare I say a chimp like me felt moved. Many of the stories within the covers of this book may not be strictly about motorcycling, but they are told by a motorcyclist who has seen more and done more within the vast scope of the two-wheeled world than nearly anyone, and so they are laid out with a perspective each of us can warm to, each of us can uphold and each of us can admire. In South Africa, Wisdom of the Road Gods is available only through mail order from Australia, and is a worthwhile read for anyone still shackled by lockdown or not. It is available through their publishing website https://www.shocknawe.com.au for 39.99 Aus Dollars (roughly R500 including shipping), but what I would do is order his hard cover third book, and then go on Amazon and download My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me and At the Altar of the Road Gods for Kindle, and by the time the physical book arrives, you are all caught up on all things Boris Mihailovic. Trust me, it’s a damn sight better written than this review. Your copy awaits at https://www.shocknawe.com.au/

04.01.2022 Happy readers abound...