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Is spelling still important in the age of spellcheckers? Ask Dan Quayle Part guide to better spelling, part paean to an endangered art, Eyes Before Ease is filled with fascinating...

The number 1 German dictionary for GCSE success. Fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE study and examinations. An easy-reference German to English and English to German dictionary...

The number 1 French dictionary for GCSE success. Fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE study and examinations. An easy-reference French to English and English to French dictionary...

Hundreds of word lists, arranged thematically, to help with solving cryptic and quick crossword clues. The lists are sorted alphabetically and by length, and provide an invaluable reference for all...

Information is presented in an approachable way - complicated terminology is avoided and learners are helped to find what they are looking for as quickly as possible. Important phrases are...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of...

Even the best wordsmiths can find themselves tripping over words that are commonly misused, mixed up or misspelled. Most of us have suffered the embarrassment of suddenly discovering that they...

The tenth title in the brand new Usborne Very First Reading series designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents.Age 4+ A captivating story to...

Pip the Dog takes an adventurous trip to town! The fourth title in the new Usborne Very First Reading series, designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together...

V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) - VSP as he was affectionately known - was the greatest British short-story writer of the twentieth century, and one of its liveliest and most humane...

Whether you're an old hand or a nervous newcomer, this book will allow you to speak in public with confidence - whatever the occasion. For many of us, public speaking...

This Langenscheidt Standard Dictionary is a leading classroom reference, favoured by students and teachers at all levels and ideal for upper secondary education and reference work. It contains 50,000 -...

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...

The first to indicate that Du Maurier had bi sexual tendencies, this book depicts a woman far removed fro m the ''Queen of Romance'' described in the tabloid obituaries ....

Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section...

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on...

The book titled Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life by the author Robert Fulghum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises anti-terrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail...

Winter in Manhattan...and someone's keeping a secret. The day her husband Alex picks up a backpack and goes travelling, Angela Clark promises to stay out of trouble and keep both...

Nona Grey's story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor. THEY CAME AGAINST HER AS A CHILD. NOW THEY FACE THE WOMAN. The ice...

Australian English is unique; having absorbed elements of British and American English it has developed its own distinctive style. As a living language, Australian English is constantly changing, so that...

The book titled Ways into Literature: Experiences in Reading and Response by the author Mary Manning. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

The book titled A Woman of No Character by the author Fidelis Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol...

Combining both accessibility and authority, The Insect That Stole Butter? describes the origins and development of over 3,000 words and phrases in the English language. The book draws on Oxford's...

One of the most prolific letter writers of this century, Tolkien wrote to his publishers, to members of his family, to friends and to fans of his books, a mass...

The book titled The Quick Brown Fox by the author Frank Devine. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In The Ruling Passion , Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century. Questioning...

A guide to English literature from 1500 to 1660. It combines a series of critical essays on understanding Renaissance literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Renaissance poetry and the contemporary historical...

Derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, the present volume is an A-Z reference work containing over 4,200 entries covering the full range of literature in English...

This volume is comprised of two previously unpublished glossaries of prison and underworld slang compiled in the 1940s and 1950s. Gary Simes contributes a long essay on criminal literature since...

This book provides a systematic coverage of over 3000 phrasal verbs. Meanings are carefully differentiated showing the wide range of sense and usage of verbs such as "take up", "go...

Tony Thorne is the author of "The Dictionary of Popular Culture" and "Countess Dracula".

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...

"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...

We can't choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. 'A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads...

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...

Creativity is a learnable skill but where do you get your ideas? Valerie Parv, author of 50 books with sales of over fifteen million copies worldwide, not only answers this...

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,...

What is the explanation for the nature, character and evolution of the many different varieties of English in the world today? Which changes in the English language are the legacy...

"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...