Pefect Letters & Emails for all by DAVIDSON George
$21.95 AUD
Category: Language
"Perfect Letters and Emails for All Occasions is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to get the most out of their written communication. Covering everything from advice on how to write to your MP to tips about 'netiquette' and avoiding offensive blunders, it is a one-stop-shop for anyone who wants ...Show more
Don't Believe A Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari
$32.99 AUD
Category: Language
There's a term in Portuguese you simply can't translate. The origin of a word tells you how it should be used. Standards of grammar have taken a nosedive recently. The real meaning of 'disinterested' is 'unbiased'. Computers will soon be able to speak like human beings A dialect is inferior to a lang ...Show more
Between Us - Women of Letters by Michaela McGuire
$29.99 AUD
Category: Language
Writing a letter can be an act of confession or celebration, while receiving one can bring joy, insight and vivid memories. Ambassadors for correspondence Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire have lured some of our best and brightest to the literary afternoons of Women of Letters to write and read missive ...Show more
Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
$34.99 AUD
Category: Language
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shar ...Show more
Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English by Rebecca Gowers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Language
Nothing inflames language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. To a purist these are "howlers" and "non-words," fit only for scorn. But in their rush to condemn such terms, are the nay-sayers missing something? This provocative and hugely entertaining book shows how the dikt ...Show more
Troublesome Words (PB) by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Language
What's the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson offers a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage that has been an indispensable companion to t ...Show more
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Language
Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” ...Show more
The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead: A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense by Adam Sharp
$26.99 AUD
Category: Language
'The poet laureate of lists' John Mitchinson, QI Elf'Brilliant, hilarious fun from a master wordsmith - you will LOVE this book' Kit de WaalJoin wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense. Learn unusual insults from France (You are a potato with the fac ...Show more
Cain's Jawbone: The world's most difficult literary puzzle by Edward Powys Mathers
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Category: Language
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery?'If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it.' The Daily Telegraph In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys M ...Show more
The Media and the Massacre : Port Arthur 1996-2016 by Sonya Voumard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Language
'Insightful, sensitively written and compelling.' Libby Lester, Head of Journalism, Media and Communications, University of Tasmania 'An unflinching dissection of the relationships between journalists and their subjects - a compelling expos of journalistic culture.' John Dale, author of Huckstepp Sonya ...Show more
Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words by David Crystal
$19.99 AUD
Category: Language
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dia ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more