You've Got This: Tips for the Uncertain Student by LORRAINE HORSLEY
$27.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Want to go onto higher education but you're afraid of failing? Keen to enrol but just don't believe you're smart enough? Then this book has been written just for you. Author Lorraine Horsley is a tutor at an Australian university and has helped hundreds of students to kick-start their ...Show more
Words From the Heart - An Emotional Dictionary by Susie Dent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of ...Show more
Inside Story by Sue Lawson, Jody Toering
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Category: Languages and Reference
How to plan, draft and write stories for young students and teachers alike, step by creative step. Inside Story breaks down the key elements needed to tell a story, guiding young writers to make a start, plan, write and edit their story.
Finish Your First Novel - A No-Bull Guide to Actually Completing Your First Draft by Char Anna
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Category: Languages and Reference
Jumpstart Your Creative FLOW, Banish Writer's Block and (Finally) Write Your Dream Novel Whether a story has just popped into your brain or you've been dreaming about it for years, it's easier than ever to power through your first manuscript with this must-have guide from writing coach Char Anna. Char d ...Show more
The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead: A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense by Adam Sharp
$26.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
'The poet laureate of lists' John Mitchinson, QI Elf'Brilliant, hilarious fun from a master wordsmith - you will LOVE this book' Kit de WaalJoin wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense. Learn unusual insults from France (You are a potato with the fac ...Show more
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie Dent
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Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser.
Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language.Who was SWEET FANNY ADAMS?What's the dramatic true story ...Show more
Writely or Wrongly: An Unstuffy Guide to Language Stuff by Joanne Anderson
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Category: Languages and 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
Rupi Kaur's Writing Prompts Relationships by Rupi Kaur
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Category: Languages and Reference
Rupi Kaur's Writing Prompts Relationships card deck is an invitation to dive deeper into the core of your most cherished relationships.Rupi Kaur encourages you to build more honest and fulfilling relationships with help from this thoughtfully curated deck of 70 writing prompts. While focusing on the the ...Show more
French English Illustrated Dictionary: A Bilingual Visual Guide to Over 10,000 French Words and Phrases by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in French with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for French-language students.Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, the French English Illustrated Dictionary uses crys ...Show more
Why Is This a Question? The Origins, Oddities and Mysteries of Language by Paul Anthony Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
A fascinating exploration of the nuts and bolts of human language.Why don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at odds to the numbers that follow them? Admittedly, that's probably a question y ...Show more
Two-Letter Words by Nick Stevenson
$18.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
A simple, fun way to learn all 107 two-letter words to take your Scrabble game to new heightsBlow away the competition with this guide to easily learning all two-letter words allowed in Scrabble and Words With Friends. This light-hearted book is a must-read for Scrabble fans, using fun facts, hilarious ...Show more
People who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure and loose living by Sally Olds
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Category: Languages and Reference
This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure. Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay form itself. ...Show more