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Moscow Midnight by John Simpson
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and something about his friend's death doesn't seem right. Then days after Macready's flat is ...Show more
Our Friends in Beijing by John Simpson
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES Jon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts. When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin ...Show more
Our Friends in Beijing by John Simpson
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Jon Swift is in trouble.His journalism career is in freefall.He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts. When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a cafe in Oxford he wond ...Show more
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce; John Simpson
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce in a mysterious way," commonly with the property of another. Spring beckons All things to the call respond; The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Phela Orm ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded ...Show more
The Oxford English Dictionary: Vols 1-20 by Edmund S. Weiner (Editor); John Simpson (Editor)
1451.95 AUD
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Eighty years ago, the "greatest work in dictionary-making ever undertaken" was completed. And with its enormous range, unparalleled historical depth, detailed etymologies, and inexhaustible supply of illustrative quotations, it has enriched the lives of writers, readers, and word-lovers of all stripes e ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
24.99 AUD
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
29.99 AUD
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
19.99 AUD
Category: History
In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
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