Harry, A History : The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Melissa Anelli
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Reference
Harry: A History, chronicles the six months leading up to the publication of Book 7; including a foreword written by J.K. Rowling herself and an exclusive, never-before-seen two-day interview with Jo about Harry: A History, this book is a must-read for any Harry Potter Superfan. Melissa knows all too we ...Show more
Get Her Off the Pitch! How Sport Took Over My Life by Lynne Truss
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Reference | Reading Level: good
From the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves , a hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism. Get Her Off the Pitch! is the story of one woman's foray into the very masculine and rather baffling world of sport. Lynne Truss spen ...Show more
Colour Oxford Dictionary & Thesaurus - 3rd Revised edition by Oxford Dictionaries Staff (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Reference | Series: UK Bestselling Dictionaries Ser.
This is the reissued Colour Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. The Colour Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus offers the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary, with over 45,000 words, phrases, and definitions, and over 65,000 synonyms based on evidence from the Oxford English ...Show more
Writely or Wrongly: An Unstuffy Guide to Language Stuff by Joanne Anderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Reference
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
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Reference
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discove ...Show more
The Emotion Thesaurus - A Writer's Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman; Becca Puglisi
$60.00 AUD
Category: New Reference
The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as "the gold standard for writers" and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When ...Show more
Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition by Macquarie Dictionary
$140.00 AUD
Category: New Reference
The Macquarie Dictionary is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. An up-to-date account of our variety of English, it not only includes words and senses peculiar to Australian English, but also those common to the whole English-speaking world. The Ninth ...Show more
Eats, Shoots And Leaves by Lynne Truss
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Reference
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good re ...Show more
Australian Schoolmate File Dictionary by Mark Gwynn (Editor)
$18.95 AUD
Category: New Reference | Series: Australian Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
This essential reference contains the complete text of the Australian School Dictionary (without the study pages) in a handy ringbinder format.
Just What the Doctor Ordered - A Guide to the Australian Idiom by Peter Nicholson Sr. (Concept by, Compiled by, Editor); Howard Steer Sr. (Illustrator, Cover Design by, Drawings by, Artist)
$69.95 AUD
Category: New Reference
186 humorous outback paintings and 1000 sayings and expressions in the Australian idiom.
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature by Nicholas Jose
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Reference
Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in Engl ...Show more
The Australian National Dictionary (2 HB Volumes A-L and M-Z, 2nd Ed.) by Bruce Moore
$145.00 AUD
Category: New Reference
The Australian National Dictionary (AND) is a dictionary of Australianisms. It includes words and meanings that have originated in Australia, that have a greater currency within Australia than elsewhere, or that have a special significance in Australian history. Whereas the first edition of the dictiona ...Show more