50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
29.99 NZD
Category: Language | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of ...Show more
Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature by John Sutherland
55.00 NZD
Category: Language
Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Steph ...Show more
Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
"Proust and the Squid" was in "Publishers Weekly's"'Best Books of 2007' - described as 'a pathbreaking look at the reading brain'.How the brain learned to read is a startling reminder of the amazing achievements of humankind.'We were never born to read', says Maryanne Wolf. 'No specific genes ever dicta ...Show more
The Great Books: From The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature by Anthony O'Hear
32.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
Anthony O'Hear presents a personal tour of the most impressive, influential and era-defining books mankind has ever produced."Paradise Lost", "The Canterbury Tales", "Dom Quixote": great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey thro ...Show more
Books That Changed the World by Andrew Taylor
45.00 NZD
Category: Language
In "Books that Changed the World" Andrew Taylor sets himself the challenging task of choosing and profiling the fifty most important and influential books in the history of the world. He has selected books from every field of human creativity and intellectual endeavour - from poetry to politics, from fi ...Show more
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
36.99 NZD
Category: Language
What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by Ikea's Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it's okay to like Comic Sans, "Just My Type" will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker sack ...Show more
It's All in a Word by Vivian Cook
35.00 NZD
Category: Language
'Delightfully eclectic', 'browsable treat', 'serious study,' 'brilliant gift idea', things all said of Vivian Cook's last best-seller, applies equally to his hugely rich and educative new book on the pleasure of words. Cross words, crass words, kind words, bad words, first words, rude words, new words, ...Show more
Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton
29.99 NZD
Category: Language
When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and ...Show more
Read This Next: And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books by Sandra Newman
32.00 NZD
Category: Language
In 2009 it was How Not to Write a Novel ("A hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide". "Observer"). In 2010 it's "Read This Next" - Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark have written the perfect book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose what to read next. But this is far more than a gui ...Show more
A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Susannah Carson (ed)
45.00 NZD
Category: Language
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans or as much devotion. So why are we so fasc ...Show more
Mess of Iguanas, A Whoop of Gorillas...: An Amazement of Animal Facts by ALON SHULMAN
35.00 NZD
Category: Language
There are many wonderful creatures on earth - and even more incredible ways to describe them. With more collective nouns for animal groups than anyone else in the world, from a Business of Ferrets to a Wobble of Ostriches (not forgetting, of course, an Implausibility of Gnus) Alon Shulman's "A Mess of I ...Show more
Improve Your Punctuation and Grammar: Master the Essentials of the English Language and Write with Greater Confidence by Marion Field
29.99 NZD
33.95 (11% off)
Category: Language
Master the essentials of the English language and write with greater confidence.About the author:Marion Field was Head of English in a large Comprehensive School and an examiner for GCSE English. She is also the author of a range of other books dedicated to helping others master the English language an ...Show more