Little Oxford English Dictionary by Oxford Languages
$30.00 NZD
Category: Reference
This is a major new edition of the Little Oxford English Dictionary, offering the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary. Based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, a unique databank with hundreds of millions of words of English, it provides a fresh selection of 9 ...Show more
Little Oxford Thesaurus 3rd Revised edition by Oxford
$30.00 NZD
Category: Reference
This is a major new edition of the Little Oxford Thesaurus offering the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential vocabulary for all your writing needs. It provides 140,000 alternative and opposite words, and gives the closest and most frequently used synonyms first, making the thesaurus quick ...Show more
Making a Point: The Pernickity Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
$33.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Behind every punctuation mark lie a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, inspiring organisations like ...Show more
Mandarin Chinese (the Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook) (revised ed, 1999) by Lexus with Julian Ward & Xu Yinong
$10.00 NZD
Category: Reference
The Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook will have you talking Mandarin as soon as you arrive. Its features include: comprehensive two-way word lists; dialogues for situations you'll encounter; tips on customs, etiquette and slang; detailed menu readers for food and drink; the rules of the language; and co ...Show more
Maori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins by A. W. Reed; Peter Dowling
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Pronounce and understand Māori place names with the new fourth edition of A.W. Reed's classic guide to meanings and origins of names across New Zealand. From Ahaura to Whitianga, this handily sized book is the definitive guide to over 2300 of the most common and notable Maori names on our land. Why do W ...Show more
Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats by Adam Sexton
$33.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Helps you learn the craft of writing. Teaching you point of view, description, characterization, and plot construction, this work lets you master the components of great short story and novel writing.
More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
$35.00 NZD
Category: Reference
All new recommended reading from America's favorite librarian, Nancy Pearl. This follow-up to the bestselling Book Lust is just as rich, enthusiastic, and all-knowing in its quirky recommendations of what to read next. The response to the author's first book was astounding; readers everywhere welcom ...Show more
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
$31.00 NZD
Category: Reference
'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to . . . ' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongre ...Show more
My Grammar and Activity Book by Daniel Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: I Used to Know That ... Ser.
Packed full of quizzes and challenges, this fun and practical workbook will help you iron out any grammatical errors and communicate more clearly.English can be a complicated language; with its myriad influences its grammar can seem full of exceptions and irregularities.This activity book takes you thro ...Show more
My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English by Caroline Taggart, J. A. Wines
$16.99 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: I Used to Know That ...
A runaway hit and Sunday Times bestseller in 2008, My Grammar and I has continued to grow in popularity, becoming the go-to guide for grammar. Repackaged with a fresh jacket design, this much-loved gift title is now available in paperback, for new readers and fans of the series alike. My Grammar and I o ...Show more
My Grammar and I (Or Should That be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English by J. A. Wines
$32.00 NZD
Category: Reference
For anyone who has ever had a problem with dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those who have no idea what these things even are, "My Grammar and I" provides all the answers. Taking you on a tour of the English language, through a veritable minefield of rules and conditions for the grammati ...Show more
New Zealand Oxford Minidictionary by Deverson
$12.95 NZD
Category: Reference
The New Zealand Oxford Minidictionary, the smallest member of the Oxford family of New Zealand dictionaries, is written for those needing a compact guide to the spelling and meaning of words in the English language today.