Readings Recommends: Reference Books
Reading The Oed
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
From Abluvion to Zyxt - a yearlong account of reading the greatest dictionary in the world and plundering its treasures:
Apricity (n.) The warmth of the sun in winter.
Constult (v.) To act stupidy together.
Obaginate (v.... More »
Speaking Our Language The Story Of Australian English
$29.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
For the first time ever the story of Australian English is about to be told in full. Speaking our Language is written for people who want to know where Australian English came from, what the forces were that moulded it, ... More »
Shakespeare On Toast Getting A Taste For The Bard
$26.95 (Hardcover book / Icon Books )
Who's afraid of William Shakespeare? Just about everyone. He wrote too much and what he did write is inaccessible and elitist. Right? Wrong. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of Shakespeare... More »
Oscars Books
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus )
In a fresh and delightful look at the character of Oscar Wilde through the prism of the books he read from childhood to his final years in Paris, an unfamiliar Wilde emerges — one that is astonishingly revealing of his p... More »
Stunned Mullets And Two Pot Screamers A Dictionary Of Australian Colloquialisms
$45.00 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
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Bryson's Dictionary For Writers And Editors
$45.00$19.95 (Hardcover book / Doubleday )
From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.
What is the difference between... More »
How Fiction Works
$39.95 (Paperback book / Jonathan Cape )
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, char... More »
Who Do You Think You Are
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
Based on the new SBS series that traces the family histories of six high-profile Australian celebrities, this book is the perfect introduction for anyone who wants to start exploring their own ancestry. More »
Book Of Poisonous Quotes
$26.00 (Hardcover book / Mcgraw Hill )
This delicious anthology of irreverent remarks and scathing retorts covers the gamut of people and pastimes that have annoyed the world's greatest wags. Curmudgeons past and present skewer everything from football to fol... More »
Great Australian Eulogies
$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Collected here are some of the best examples of this intriguing oral tradition, the eulogy. Each is a moving, compelling and entertaining story in its own right. And the sum of these parts reveals something about the cha... More »
Maximum French Everything You Need To Speak And Understand French
$99.95 (Hardcover book / Living Language )
Language learning has never been this easy or effective. Living Language® experts have combined proven methods with the latest technology to produce the Maximum series, the only self-study language courses on the market ... More »
Maximum Italian Everything You Need To Speak And Understand Italian
$99.95 (Hardcover book / Random Century )
Language learning has never been this easy or effective. Living Language® experts have combined proven methods with the latest technology to produce the Maximum series, the only self-study language courses on the market ... More »
Maximum Spanish Everything You Need To Speak And Understand Spanish
$89.95 (Hardcover book / Random Century )
Language learning has never been this easy or effective. Living Language® experts have combined proven methods with the latest technology to produce the Maximum series, the only self-study language courses on the market ... More »