Troublesome Words (PB) by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
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
Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers by Julia Cameron
$39.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
The essential guide to writing by the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron Legendary author of The Artist's Way Julia Cameron has pioneered the field of creative recovery, inspiring millions of people around the world to discover their true creative selves. Now in Write for Life, the 'Queen of Creativity' ...Show more
The Little Green Grammar Book (PB) by Mark Tredinnick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green G ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
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Category: Words and Writing
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
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Category: Words and Writing
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe by Alex Bellos
$24.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the sa ...Show more
Catching the Light by Joy Harjo
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Harjo writes as if the creative journey has been the destination all along."--Kirkus Reviews In this lyrical meditatio ...Show more
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors.'A marvelous book' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful' - Tom Holland'A lovely, lovely read' - Lucy Mangan'Splendid' - David Crystal'Tho ...Show more
Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack
$29.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
Bold as brass, cold feet, cock and bull, off the cuff, red herrings and white elephants - we use these phrases every day and yet have only the vaguest idea of where many of them come from. The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this book.
Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Jeremy Butterfield (Editor)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Words and Writing | Series: Oxford Quick Reference Ser.
Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage is an invaluable reference work that offers the best advice on English usage. Known in previous editions as the 'Pocket Fowler', this third edition is a descendant of the original 1926 edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Fowler. ...Show more
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
$55.00 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Ar ...Show more
Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition by Macquarie Dictionary
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Category: Words and Writing
The <b><i>Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition</i></b> provides an up-to-date account of Australian English, with wide coverage to meet the needs of the general dictionary user. Based on the comprehensive <i>Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition</i>, this volume in ...Show more