English Grammar for Dummies by Wendy M. Anderson
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
Improve your writing and speaking skills in everyday situations Getting tangled up with grammar rules and misplaced apostrophes? English Grammar For Dummies, Australian Edition, will help you straighten things out. Packed with expert advice, it covers everything from basic sentence structure to the fi n ...Show more
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings
32.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is ...Show more
The Art of Conversation by Catherine Blyth
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that when it works it can come close to heaven. With examples from Elizabeth I to Tommy Cooper, courtesans to ...Show more
Titles and Forms of Address by Who's Who
35.00 NZD
Category: Language
A guide to correct forms of address in speech and correspondence. It covers both formal and social occasions, and includes the forms of address for bishops, peers, privy counsellors, ambassadors, JPs and mayors. Where honours, decorations and degrees appear after the name as letters, an explanation and ...Show more
A Little, Aloud: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry for Reading Aloud to Someone You Care for by Angela Macmillan
29.99 NZD
Category: Language
We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health and happiness benefits. It stimulates thought and memory, encourages the sharing of ideas and feelings ...Show more
Reading the OED: One man, one year, 21730 pages by Ammon Shea
35.00 NZD
Category: Language
Who among us does not know a wine-knight (a person who drinks valiantly), or someone who obaginates (to annoy by repeating over and over and over)? Who has not felt mumpish (sullenly angry) or appreciated the apricity (the warmth of sun in winter)? And who can honestly say they have not consulted (acted ...Show more
Art of Conversation - All Ages by Howland Louise
19.99 NZD
Category: Language | Series: TAOC
With 300 fascinating and conversation building questions, plus blank cards on which to write your own questions, this game is for everyone. The only knowledge needed to successfully contribute to TAOC is your own life experiences, interests and ideas. When time is short, a proper conversation is often t ...Show more
Wordplay by John Langdon
34.99 NZD
Category: Language
If the name Langdon sounds familiar, it's because Dan Brown named the intrepid protagonist of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons after ambigram - and symbol-designer John Langdon. Widely recognized as a master of the art of the ambigram form, John Langdon does with words what M.C. Escher and Salv ...Show more
Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts : A literary quiz book by James Walton
35.00 NZD
Category: Language
With questions ranging from the deliciously unexpected (Who's the only person in literary history both to have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and to have played a girlfriend of Ken Barlow's in "Coronation Street"?) to the reassuringly canonical (Dickens's fourth novel was the first he'd published ...Show more
The Good of the Novel by Liam McIlvanney; Ray Ryan
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIl ...Show more
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature by John Mullan
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
Many of the great books of English literature were first published without their authors' names upon them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity of their first readers? Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, "Anonymity" looks at the ways in which the d ...Show more
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method of writing that can take you beyond craft to the true source of creative power: The mind that is "raw, full of energy, alive and hungry." Here is compassionate, practical, and often humorous advice about how to f ...Show more