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Guardian: Cryptic Crosswords - A Collection of 200 Perplexing Puzzles by Guardian
$16.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Guardian Puzzles Ser.
This book includes 200 difficult cryptic crosswords compiled by the Guardian's crossword creators, complete with an introduction and full solutions. It is guaranteed to provide hundred of hours of puzzling enjoyment.
Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons On Leadership and Character From Shakespeare and One of His Greatest Admirers by John Bell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Around the globe people have been crying out for “Leadership”: demanding it, begging for it. From the farcical spectacle of short-lived Australian prime ministers shoving each other ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: The\Landmark Library
A TLSBook of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedyis another book that everyone ought to read'Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is ... fun ... ingenious ... fascinating'Observer. 'A book worth savouring ...Show more
Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers by Helen Vines
$34.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as ‘evil’ and ‘perverted’ in her first published novel The Pea Pi ...Show more
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day by D. Keene
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark work Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, the book includes concise i ...Show more
Reading Like An Australian Writer by Belinda Castles (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This is an ode, a love letter, to the magic of reading. To the spark that's set off when the reader thinks ... I can do this too. Here, twenty-six writers take us through these moments of revelation through the dog-eared pages of their favourite Australian books. These writers come together to draw kno ...Show more
Randolph Stow - Critical Essays by Kate Leah Rendell (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Randolph Stow (1935-2010) was a writer who resisted critical containment. His complete oeuvre of eight novels, a children's novella, a libretto, translation work and several collections of poetry presents an accomplished and impressive literary legacy. The collection republishes a number of significant ...Show more
On Thomas Keneally: Writers on Writers by Stan Grant
$17.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Stan Grant is drawn to Thomas Keneally 'for many reasons- we share an Irish heritage and a complicated relationship with religion. I am especially interested in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, which was a formative novel for me. My family shares a connection with the real Jimmy Governor as well. The boo ...Show more
The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques by Henry Russell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why th ...Show more
A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling char ...Show more
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami by David Karashima
$0.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A rare look inside the making of the "Murakami Industry"--and a thought-provoking exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of global literary culture. Thirty years ago, when Haru ...Show more
How to Live. What to Do - Life Lessons from Literature by Josh Cohen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Tolstoy? Literatur ...Show more