Rewording the Brain: How cryptic crosswords can improve your memory and boost the power and agility of your brain by David Astle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Language
Recent ground-breaking and exciting studies have shown that cryptic crosswords are among the most effective ways to boost the power and agility of your brain.Why? The answer lies in the art of teasing out a clue, a discipline that calls for logic, interpretation, intuition and deduction as well as the a ...Show more
Making Sense: The Glamorous World of English Grammar by David Crystal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Language
David Crystal explains grammar's rules and irregularities, shows how to navigate its snares and pitfalls, and explores its history and varieties. He gives practical guidance on how grammar may be used for different purposes and in different settings. He provides a series of insights into the stages by w ...Show more
The Queen's English: From Argy-Bargy to Zany by Christopher J. Moore
$29.95 AUD
Category: Language
English may well be the most widely spoken language in the world but what exactly do we mean when we talk about 'the English language'? The Queen's English is the perfect guide to understanding what makes English tick. From cricket to chips, the jumble sale to the white van man, Moore casts a quizzical ...Show more
15-Minute Spanish Pack (Book & 2 Audio CD'S) by DORLING KINDERSLEY
$29.99 AUD
Category: Language | Series: Eyewitness Travel 15-Minute Language Packs
The perfect language pack for learning Spanish fast - talk with confidence in just 12 weeks. "Hablo espanola?" In just 15 minutes a day you can speak and understand Spanish with confidence with "15-Minute Spanish", an easy-to-follow, practical course teaching you all the essentials. The unique visual ap ...Show more
Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Language
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
Dreyer's English - An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Language
A witty, informative guide to writing from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading language gurus--in the tradition of The Elements of Style "Utterly delightful . . . will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly."--Elizabeth Strout We all write, all ...Show more
Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang by H. G. Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we're connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc ('plonk') and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another ...Show more
Wise Words - The Philosophy of everyday life by Stephen Trombley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking. Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for ob ...Show more
Checkout 19 by Claire- Louise Bennett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Language
*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, DAILY TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES CULTURE AND NEW STATESMAN* 'We read in order to come to life.' With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from o ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Language
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
$19.99 AUD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you live)." ...Show more
Reading Pleasures by BYRNE JENNIFER
$19.99 AUD
Category: Language
This is a little gem of a book-the perfect Christmas gift for lovers of reading! Reading Pleasures is filled with gorgeous photographs and artworks, each paired with an inspiring quotation. Book lover and host of The Book Club Jennifer Byrne introduces the book magnificently in her Foreword: 'Here are b ...Show more