The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Words & Writing
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamsoncurates the year's best non-fiction writing from Australia's finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to ...Show more
Best Australian Stories 2014 by Amanda Lohrey
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Category: Words & Writing
In The Best Australian Stories 2014, Patrick White Award - winning author Amanda Lohrey selects the outstanding short fiction of the year. Sometimes fantastical, sometimes raw, and always a 'shot of adrenaline to the mind and heart', this collection features exciting new voices alongside the established ...Show more
Best Australian Comedy Writing 2 by Luke Ryan (Editor)
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Category: Words & Writing
'...Comedy writing is a tough art. It requires concision, precision and an intuitive sense of how the reader is going to formulate your sentences in their mind. It needs a poet's grasp of language, an encyclopaedic knowledge of culture, high and low, and a vast array of euphemisms for embarrassing bodil ...Show more
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
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Category: Words & Writing
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny a ...Show more
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Words & Writing
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Collins First Dictionary by COLLINS DICTIONARIES
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Category: Words & Writing | Series: Collins First
An ideal introduction to the world of words and dictionaries for children aged 4 and above. The simple, full sentence definitions reflect the child's experience of the world, and the colourful illustrations help make learning easy, memorable, and fun. This book offers help to children in learning the al ...Show more
Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary by Susan Rennie, Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl, Oxford Dictionaries
$24.95 AUD
Category: Words & Writing | Series: UK Bestselling Dictionaries Ser.
This is not an ordinary dictionary. After all, you wouldn't expect an 'Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary' to be ordinary, would you? Lots of dictionaries tell you what an 'alligator' is, or how to spell 'balloon' but they won't explain the difference between a 'ringbeller' and a 'trogglehumper', or say why w ...Show more
The Betoota Advocate Round-up by The Betoota Advocate
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Category: Words & Writing
A collection of the best plus a host of new material from ‘Australia's oldest newspaper', a hugely popular online satricial 'news' service The BETOOTA ADVOCATE claims to hail from the Queensland town of Betoota (pop: 0) and be Australia's oldest newspaper. Since venturing online in 2014, it has quickly ...Show more
Strine: The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder by AFFERBECK LAUDER
$23.95 AUD
Category: Words & Writing
It was Professor Afferbeck Lauder who made the groundbreaking discovery that Australians speak Strine - not English, as had long been thought. He revealed his findings in a little book called Let Stalk Strine, an instant classic and - as John Clarke writes in his Ford - a publishing phenomenon. This col ...Show more
Collins Gem School Thesaurus by Collins Dictionaries Staff
$10.99 AUD
Category: Words & Writing | Series: Collins School Ser.
A fantastic mini school thesaurus for ages 11+ in the best-selling Gem format to help you find the right word every time. Written specially to help with school work and homework, this new edition provides thousands of synonyms to increase vocabulary, with examples to show context for every synonym list ...Show more