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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame by Robert McCrum
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' - Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and nea ...Show more
Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum
$32.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. As its power spreads, its language inevitably follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into th ...Show more
Rites of Passage by William Golding; Robert McCrum (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
With an introduction by Robert McCrumThe first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinkin ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
"A remarkable book that takes us to the heart of Shakespeare's art and influence."--James Shapiro When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, the First F ...Show more
The Story of English by Robert McCrum
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
"The Story of English" is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. More wi ...Show more
Wodehouse : A Life by Robert McCrum
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Authorised Biography of P.G. Wodehouse Robert McCrum's wonderfully enjoyable and painstakingly researched life of P.G. Wodehouse is the definitive exploration of the genius behind Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings and Psmith. From Wodehouse's formative years in Edwardian London to his adventures on ...Show more
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