The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND series) by Helen DeWitt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
Maman was exigeante--there is no English word-and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl ...Show more
Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
Making the Grade by Iain Hay
$66.95 AUD
Category: Literature
This book is a practical guide for students, full of the essential communication and study skills that will help them 'make the grade'. Covering all the skills that will be used across a degree, the book begins with listening skills, efficient time management and working effectively with a team and take ...Show more
Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary - Volume 1 (A - M) by Alexander Schmidt
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Reprint of 1902 ed Every word in the plays and poems is defined and located.
The Ingenious Language - Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo; Will Schutt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nineways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its rele ...Show more
On Aunty by Jonathan Holmes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Australia?s public broadcaster, 'Aunty?, is about to turn 90, yet your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble- budget cuts, ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership chaos and hostile commercial rivals. Meanwhile audiences are deserting broadcast TV and radio. What is the ABC?s pl ...Show more
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
The Drover's Wives by O'Neill , Ryan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The new book from the winner of the 2017 Prime Ministers Literary award for fiction. Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is an Australian classic that has sparked interpretations on the page, on canvas and on the stage. But it has never been so thoroughly, or hilariously, reimagined as by Ry ...Show more
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