I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
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If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the in ...Show more
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature by Peter Pierce
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The Cambridge History of Australian Literature is the most comprehensive volume ever written on Australia's national literature. This authoritative guide spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, encompassing indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the P ...Show more
The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist by John Sutherland
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For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', created a riotous fictional world that still lives and breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination tha ...Show more
Postcards From Puffin: 100 Covers In One Box by Puffin
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This is a unique collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Puffin book cover. From picture books to paperbacks, teen fiction to "Puffin Classics", this is a selection from seventy years of outstanding British design and illustration in one sturdy little box.
A Classical Primer: Ancient Knowledge for Modern Minds by Dan Crompton
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Didn't take Classics at school? Or maybe you've forgotten most of what you once knew? To save you looking it up, Classics is the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and takes in all aspects of their life and learning - from the languages to literature, philosophy, art, and much more b ...Show more
You are What You Speak : Grammar Grouches, Language Laws and the Power of Words by Robert Lane Greene
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Why does language move some of us to anxiety or even rage?For centuries, sticklers have donned the cloak of authority to control how people use words. In this sensational new book, Robert Lane Greene strikes back to defend the fascinating, real-life diversity of this most basic human faculty. Along the ...Show more
Australian Writers Marketplace 2011/2012 by QLD WRITER'S CENTRE
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The only comprehensive guide to publishing markets in Australia and New Zealand, with over 2,200 listings of publication and writing industry contacts - now in its 11th edition! Are you looking for avenues to get your writing out there? Do you want to find the right writing competition, writing course, ...Show more
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife that turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard by Jack Lynch
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Jess' pick... (Literature) This unique addition to the Shakespeare canon, this book begins where most Shakespeare stories end, with his death in 1616. Jack Lynch has written the definitive biography of William Shakespeare's afterlife--two hundred years during which he grew from a modestly successful pro ...Show more
Thoughtful Alphabets - the Just Dessert & the Deadly Blotter by Edward Gorey
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This book combines two of Gorey's Thoughtful Alphabets (long out of print) in one volume never before published in hardcover. In each, Gorey's twenty-six-word stories (wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z) weave a tale of suspense and intrigue; the story proceeds as the alphabet progres ...Show more
The World's Most Difficult Quiz #2 by CULLEN, PAT
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The Library Book by Alan Bennett & others
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From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thin ...Show more
I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
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It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! This is one of Shakespeare's most famous lines and one of the most well-known metaphors in literature. But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device employed by love-struck poets when they refer to their girlfriends as interstellar masses of incandescent ga ...Show more