This year the nimble Melbourne publisher Hybrid have taken a punt and released The Ascent of Everest, a boxed set of four Australian political satires.

All these fictions centre on Dr Professor Grafton Everest, whose first academic position, in the mid-1980s, was a lecturer in Life Skills and Hospitality at the ultra leftist University of Mangoland.

At the same time, Grafton Everest was also assailed by the uber-right-wing government of the odious premier of Mangoland, Sir Otis Hoogstratten.

These days, in 2025, through no wish or effort of his own, Grafton has become the first Australian Secretary-General of the hapless United Nations.

Written by Emeritus Professor of History & Politics at Griffith University, and Ian McFadyen of ‘Comedy Company’ fame, The Ascent of Everest four pack is on sale for $49.99.

Readers may be intrigued to know that, in the latest Grafton Everest adventure, Pandemonium , Russia’s president for life Vladimir Putrid, and America’s bat-shit crazy president, Ronald Thump, are both assassinated.