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Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche. Metaphor ("a carrying or bearing across") supposes that an ordinary word...

Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin , first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The...

The author explores the meaning of age and aging in contemporary society, for both men and women.

In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by...

The book titled Seven Days to Petrograd by the author Vernon Tom Hyman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

With new material reflecting on the changed state of the nation, this edition of the Walkley Award-winning The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis, one of our most respected journalists, will...

Discover the meaning of acronyms, cliches and spoonerisms. Find out the history of the alphabet, punctuation, pen names and plurals. Learn how to trick your friends by speaking in Pig...

Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley?the love affair immortalized in Philippa Gregory's "The Virgin's Lover"?but nearly fifty years have...

Nature has the power to restore us, but can it wash away our darkest truths? Set amid the red dust and heat of the Australian Kimberley wet season and the...

Many people today are seeking to move away from the "no pain no gain" mentality of the gym and find alternative ways of keeping their bodies and minds in shape....

A lingering, compulsive debut novel that will keep you tightly in its grip. What would you do if a young girl knocked on your door and asked for your help?...

Irish emigration during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is a core issue in the history of Britain and the New World. This book brings together articles which provide an overview...

The book titled Atlas of Invertebrate Macrofossils by the author Palaeontological. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The world's biggest and best anthology series of original horror and dark fantasy returns with a bumper collection of new short stories and novellas from the hottest names and most...

1996, London. Nicola , tall and gorgeous, has re-birthed herself. She has landed a breakthrough role and her star is rising - she can feel herself blossoming, can see it...

'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work...

I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday. Tara Selter has lived...

'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgard 'Miraculous.' The Cut 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Di az 'Wonderful.' K Patrick 'A total explosion: a new dimension.' Nicole Krauss The second volume of the landmark European masterpiece...

In the midpoint of her life, an unnamed woman visits a series of hotel rooms. They are in Avignon, Prague, Oslo, Auckland, Austin - but they could be anywhere: each...

In this hypnotic, shimmering novel, Le Prix Medicis-winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg reveals the power of secrets to destroy generations of families. After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood...

When a wanted war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell...

Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume, are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object...

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligenta nd now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of...

No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from executive boardrooms worldwide. Whether they're ex-special forces, CIA spooks or Foreign...

The first volume of The Ptolemies Quartet triumphantly brings to life the dark and glittering history of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spanned twelve...

The book titled Clea by the author Lawrence Durrell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes...

Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals, in particular My Family and Other Animals. But The Overloaded Ark,...

Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he...

From the author of Murder Most Unladylike . Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy's glamorous mother is throwing a tea...

Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors, Eragon and Saphira narrowly escaped with their lives. But more awaits the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by...

At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world s institutional secrets, by "Forbes "journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from...

Charged, with Witness K, for allegedly breaching the Intelligence Services Act, Bernard Collaery provides the whole sordid backstory to Australian politics' biggest scandal'. In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former...

Australia's much loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination and its effects on the life of a writer in this first...

Fay Marles has lived a life of firsts. As Victoria s first Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, she played an instrumental role in the landmark case that resulted in Ansett employing...

Traumascapes is a deeply-felt and wonderfully intelligent exploration of international sites where traumas of great magnitude have occurred. Its subjects include the Moscow theatre where hundreds were held hostage by...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of standard economics, to the strategies economists employ in applying their theories to solve particular problems, and to the ways in...

Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language...

The book titled Trellis: The Creative Way to Transform Your Garden by the author Jamie Garnock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Gilbert and Sullivan Companion by the author Leslie Ayre. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Future of Anthropology: Its Relevance to the Contemporary World by the author Akbar S. Ahmed. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled On the Trail of King Richard III by the author L.M. Ollie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An in-depth look at the trading system that anyone can use The Logical Trader presents a highly effective, yet simple trading methodology that any trader anywhere can use to trade...

A comprehensive book which reflects the most current thinking on fixed income securities and how to handle them Fixed income securities, such as bonds, can be hard to value when...

The 2nd edition of The Futures Bond Basis, is an updated and revised version of Professor Moorad Choudhry's succinct but in-depth look at the government bond futures contract basis. It...

Fans of Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot will be delighted to see his meticulous theories of translation put into practice in what seems destined to become the definitive English-language...

The book titled Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information by the author Dorothy Nelkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.