Writely or Wrongly: An Unstuffy Guide to Language Stuff by Joanne Anderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference Literature
An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a book on said subject that is humourlessly preoccupied with rules (almost all of us). Author Joanne Anderson has expanded on the popular tips s ...Show more
Damp Squids and Card Sharks - A Compendium of Commonly Confused Phrases and Linguistic Muddles by Robert Anwood
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Category: Reference Literature
Have we wetted your appetite? Peaked your interest? Are you waiting with baited breath? Or could you care less? Pull your socks together! For all intensive purposes, this is the book for you. This cute, funny book features gorgeous illustrations alongside the 50 amusing malapropisms, mixed metaphors an ...Show more
Tales from the Greek by Marco Luccio & John Hughes
$220.00 AUD
Category: Reference Literature
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
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Category: Reference Literature
Welcome to Sotheran's, the oldest, most bonkers bookshop in the country, with its bizarre clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books, some things that aren't even books, and deeply eccentric staff. Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black.Some years ago, ...Show more
She Said: Witty Words from Wise Women by Dominique Enright
$16.99 AUD
Category: Reference Literature
In it you'll find writers, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, fashionistas, from Sappho to Beyoncé and Dorothy Parker to Carrie Fisher, all of whom have two things in common: brilliant minds and barbed wits that sting with their precision. Featuring women from as far back as 700 BC and right up to ...Show more
Big Ideas from Literature: How Books Can Change Your World by The School of Life
$42.99 AUD
Category: Reference Literature
Great stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them.This book is an exploration of the ideas found in books, that teach children through the wonderful stories they tell. Books can be so powerful, helping us through tricky times, offering us wisdom we haven't learnt ...Show more
The Times Great Letters : Notable Correspondence to the Newspaper by James (EDT) Owen
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Category: Reference Literature
The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper. This delightful selection of over 300 items of correspondence over the last century shows precisely why. As a forum for debate, playground for opinion-formers, advertising space for decision-makers and noticeboard for eccentrics, nothing rival ...Show more
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Reference Literature
An exploration of Tolkien's influences by renowned expert John Garth. 'Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life.' - The Times A ...Show more
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe by Michael Bird, Orlando Bird
$15.00 AUD
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Writers' Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De Beauvoir. Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is much to discover in this illustrated compendium of letters written ...Show more
Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England by MARIA HUBERT
$32.99 AUD
Category: Reference Literature
The revival in Jane Austen and her world continues apace, and Maria Hubert's book will delight and amuse anyone interested in the writer or the fascinating social era in which she was writing. Capturing the sheer delight of the Christmas period, it is a fascinating and captivating collection of everythi ...Show more
Puss in Books: Our Best-Loved Writers on their Best-Loved Cats (HB) by Paul Magrs
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Category: Reference Literature
A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy).'I love them, they are so nice and selfish' - L.M. MontgomeryThis collection of quotes from the literary greats explore ...Show more
Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, And Letters by William Shakespeare, John Keats
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Category: Reference Literature
This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature's most beloved writers. Because it defines human existence, love is one of art's favorite subjects. Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, and ...Show more