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The book titled Divine Landscapes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Part essay, part discursive dictionary, this is a sharp and funny account of gobbledegook we find everywhere in our culture - in holiday brochures, menus, sports commentaries, not to mention...

The letters of the Roman alphabet are so much a part of our everyday life that often they are taken for granted. We no longer see tham for what they...

The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California,...

"Australia's king of young adult fiction" The Australian James reads by his open bedroom window at night. Other lives and other worlds beckon. One of these worlds is conjured by...

The must-have Spanish School Dictionary for KS3 and GCSE, fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE. This handy-sized Collins Spanish School Dictionary is modern, up-to-date, clear and easy...

The must-have Back to School German dictionary for Year 7. A pocket-sized German to English and English to German reference for secondary school students looking for a dictionary that is...

This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather...

The book titled Classic Fairy Tales by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a study of the influence of accent in Britain today. It looks at such questions as "Can job prospects be affected by a candidate's accent?", "Why are some...

The book titled Sean O'Casey: A Life by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The favourite mini school dictionary for KS3 and GCSE German, fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE. This small and portable Collins German School Dictionary is modern, up-to-date,...

At a time when many people fear that the English language is entering a period of serious decline, the author of this book takes a more optimistic view. He believes...

"Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West , "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages...

The book titled Poems for the Very Young by the author Michael Rosen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us , an "extraordinary" ( The Denver Post ) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and...

The author of the award-winning "Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce" examines D.H. Lawrence's restless life through his marriage. She presents not the bearded prophet with baleful eye, but an...

A revision of Shirley Purchase's successful Australian Writers' and Editors' Guide, incorporating more than 1000 new entries - names and places, foreign words and phrases, abbreviations and acronyms, capitalisation and...

'Tense, gripping and packed with twists' Lucy Clarke Someone is watching your every move... Holly Lawrence always wanted to be a spy, but the experience proved more dangerous than anything...

Give yourself a head start! Collins School Dictionary is the perfect companion for all students aged 11-14. With a clear design throughout, it is easy to use and full of...

Can Astra and Zoe discover why Fairy Unicorn Island is flooding, and find the spell to save it from disaster? When Zoe discovers that Unicorn Island is flooding, she knows...

Based on her access to J.G. Farrell's family and friends, as well as his notebooks and personal correspondence, Lavinia Greacen's biography disentangles not only the full circumstances of the novelist's...

Britain possesses a literary heritage which is almost unrivalled in the Western world. In this illustrated volume the richness, diversity and continuity of that tradition from Anglo-Saxon times to the...

** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ** A Best Book of 2025 for the Financial Times, The Week, Spectator, BBC History Magazine, NPR, History Today, Waterstones and Daunts 'A sparkling debut by...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And...

JOLLY WICKED ACTUALLY is a wonderfully entertaining compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have over the last century become the cornerstones of modern spoken English, and have been...

This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's...

The book titled The Story of the "X-men": How it All Began: Level 4 by the author Michael Teitelbaum. Please contact us for more information about this title.

New Longman Shakespeare is a series of educational editions of the most popular Shakespeare plays studied and taught in secondary schools. They provide teachers with a balanced approach to teaching...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively...

The book titled Out of Time by the author John Marsden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this legendary edition...

Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies - Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet and Othello - in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is a hero's fall...

The book titled Ladles and Jellyspoons: Favourite Riddles and Jokes of Australian by the author June Factor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled The Good Day (a Format) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

' Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller ' ERIN KELLY Lynda La Plante has lived...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die'...

History of English Literature and Philology: A Guide is an introductory guide catering to Core Course 1: History of Literature and Philology of the undergraduate English (Hons.) programme of the...

This new edition of the Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most important English idioms from around the world. Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary offers in-depth...

The Macmillan Australian Primary Dictionary is designed as a school student's first dictionary. It has been specifically written for Australian students aged 6 to 10 years, and is the essential...

For the past four years Jane Miller, author of CRAZY AGE: THOUGHTS ON BEING OLD , has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times ....

William Shakespeare's literary work has fascinated and entertained people throughout the world for centuries. His life, however, has always been shrouded in mystery. Now an eminent Shakespearean scholar presents a...

Following the bestselling "Summer of a Dormouse", Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would...

Chronological almanac of assassinations from the slaying of king David to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister. Each entry lists the target, the assassins, the historical context,...