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Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print
In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends...
Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the greatest writer in a Britain that ruled the largest empire the world has known, yet he was always a controversial figure, as deeply hated as...
Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places...
Planet Earth (Reading Ladder Level 3)
$8.00 AUD
Explore our amazing planet in this engaging non-fiction reader that will help make learning to read fun and interesting. Read and discover fascinating facts about how the oceans control climate,...
Finding Dory - Spelling and Grammar, Ages 6-7
$5.00 AUD
Learn to spell with Finding Dory and Disney Learning! Taking place a year after Finding Nemo, Finding Dory follows the friendly but forgetful blue tang fish as she reunites with...
The Joy Of English: 100 Illuminating Conversations about the English
This is a pencil-sharp book about English for anyone who ever needs to write. In an easy-to-read style, it offers accessible and constructive advice to help you improve your English...
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English
A 'delightfully eccentric' (Daily Mail) day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words.The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English...
The Very British Problems Quiz Book
What does 'custard and jelly' mean in cockney rhyming slang?Which biscuit has half of its name on top of the cooker and the other half on the door?And 25 million...
The Boy Who Fell into a Book
Rockfist Slim's enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only...
I Will Be Complete: A Memoir
'I WILL BE COMPLETE is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of HALF A LIFE and CHANG AND...
Dublin Palms
The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends....
Book Of Shakespearian Useless Info
This book commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death on 23 April 1616.Everyone knows that the only book we buy more often than a work of Shakespeare is the...
Through the Leopard's Gaze
In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to...
Reading Champion: The Three Little Rats: Independent Reading Orange 6
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 Hotel Room Mix-Up
Two weddings, three hotel reservations gone awry...and one weekend in Cornwall they'll never forget! When the similarities between Ella Swift and Callum Smith's last names lead to a hotel...
The Night Before Christmas
The glorious publication of Clement C Moore's timeless verse sees it brought to new life by the beautiful illustrations of Christian Birmingham. Every Christmas Eve brings with it hushed...
Bradford's Crossword Solver's Lists: More than 100,000 solutions for
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...
Collins Jamaican School Dictionary
The home of trusted Jamaican dictionaries and thesauruses for school use.Collins Jamaican School Dictionary has been specially developed in association with teachers in Jamaica to ensure it meets the needs...
The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't...
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan...
SCRABBLE (TM) Junior Spelling Activity book Age 6-7
Fun Scrabble word puzzles, games and activities for kids aged 6+Make learning to spell fun with the new series of activity books from Scrabble! Taking inspiration from the classic board...
French Essential Dictionary and Grammar: Two books in one (Collins
The home of trusted French dictionaries for everyday language learning An up-to-date French to English and English to French dictionary with a practical, user-friendly grammar guide, all in one handy...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy...
School Dictionary and Thesaurus: Trusted support for learning (Collins
The must-have Back to School dictionary and thesaurus for Year 7.The English School Dictionary and Thesaurus is the perfect English reference tool for all students aged 11+ (KS3). In a...
The Night Before Christmas
The glorious publication of Clement C Moore's timeless verse sees it brought to new life by the beautiful illustrations of Christian Birmingham. Every Christmas Eve brings with it hushed...
Reading Champion: Puss in Boots and Kitty: Independent Reading
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...
Reading Champion: Tom and the Gingerbread Man: Independent Reading
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...
Correct English: The classic practical reference guide to using spoken
This classic book by Brian Phythian has been updated and simplified to make it accessible and relevant to today's readers. Never has the ability to express yourself well - in...
Reading Champion: Little Red Riding Hood and her Dog: Independent
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 Very British Problems Quiz Book
What does 'custard and jelly' mean in cockney rhyming slang?Which biscuit has half of its name on top of the cooker and the other half on the door?And 25 million...
Oh, To Be a Painter!
Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual...
Reading Champion: A Spooky Surprise: Independent Reading Green 5
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...
Reading Champion: The Orange Lamb: Independent Reading Orange 6
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...
Mom and Me and Mom
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter...
The Chambers Paperback Thesaurus
Containing alternatives for 9,000 common words, The Chambers Paperback Thesaurus is the ideal easy-to-use guide to finding the right alternative word every time.Cleary structured entries include numbered alternative meanings as...
John Keats
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953
Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just...
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral,...
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages
English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist - we use these foreign...
Reading Champion: Beetle Wants to Fly: Independent Reading Green 5
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 Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame?
'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning in...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge ...This story, first...
Reading Champion: The Queen's New Crown: Independent Reading Orange 6
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...
Reading Champion: The Bunk Bed: Independent Reading Green 5
In this story, Freddie and Billy are getting bunk beds. They are very excited but just cannot agree on which bunk each should have. Luckily, Mum has a plan.Reading Champion...
Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions [...]
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun....
A Circle of Five
On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts
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. Her beautifully...