The Dictionary of Demons - Names of the Damned
“The Dictionary of Demons” starts with a simple premise: n...
The Dictionary of Dreams - Every Meaning Interpreted
Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and ...
The World's Greatest Collection of Dad Jokes - More Tha...
Here is a brand-new collection of more than 500 of the very ...
The Dictionary Of Dads - Poems By
Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary
A new unique Roald Dahl Dictionary from Oxford. This is not an ordinary dictionary. After all, you wouldn’t expect an ‘Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary’ to be ordinary, would you? Lots of dictionaries tell you what an ‘alligator’ is, or how to spell ‘balloon’ but they won’t explain the difference between a ‘ringbeller’ and a ‘trogglehumper’, or say why witches need ‘gruntles’ eggs’ or ...
The Incredible Dadventure
Holly’s dad is an explorer, having amazing adventures all over the world, while Holly is stuck at home with her mum, her baby brother and the dog. Now Dad’s on a new expedition and he’ll miss her tenth birthday. She’s not happy – until she finds out that he’s planned a special treasure hunt, just for her. She has ten days to complete ten tasks – some silly, some tricky and some downright te...
Pam Ayres - The Works - The Classic Collection
The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres’ best-known poems, including ‘The Battery Hen’, ‘Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?’, ‘Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother’ and, of course, ‘Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth’. This edition includes a new general introduction by Pam, as well as individual introductions to these classic poems of the seventies and eig...
The Colossus and Other Poems
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as “The Beekeeper’s Daughter,” “The Disquieting Muses,” “I Want, I Want,” and “Full Fathom Five,” she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Grace...
The Little Oxford Gift Box - Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
From Shakespeare and Mark Twain to Albert Einstein and Kate Moss, the Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations features 4,000 of the best and most popular quotations of past and present. Packed with quotable quotes on over 300 themes from ‘Parties’ to ‘Punctuality’, and from ‘Apology’ to ‘Toasts’, this is the ideal tool for finding exactly the right words to express yourself in any situation...
The Best 100 Poems Of Les Murray
From his life’s work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as ‘The Broad Bean Sermon’, ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ and ‘The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever’, this collection is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. It is a treasure trove of the best poems ...
The VERY Embarrassing Book of Dad Jokes - Because your dad thinks he's hilarious
Why did the banana go to the doctors? Because he wasn’t peeling very well! Proving the age-old maxim that ‘it’s in the way that you tell them’, Dads – for the best part of forever – have always been renowned for being truly godawful joke tellers. Whether it’s telling them at the wrong moment, misremembering the punchline or it just simply being one of those jokes that were terrible to begi...
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot - Faber Modern Classics
T.S. Eliot – editor, poet, critic and publisher – was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain’s favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection himself in 1954 as an introduction to his work for new readers. Containing ‘The W...
Classic Australian Poems
Australian poets have a wonderful way with words and their poems bring to life the iconic Aussie characters and unforgettable landscape that are part of our Australian heritage. Many of these – Mulga Bill, Clancy of the Overflow, The Ant Explorer, M’Dougal, The Shearer’s Wife and Mr Smith – are larger than life. And the poets who created them – AB Patterson, CJ Dennis, Thomas E Spencer, Louis...
Selected Poems - Tennyson
As Poet Laureate during much of Queen VictoriaÂ’s reign, Alfred Lord TennysonÂ’s spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks. Â’Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of HellRode the six hundredÂ’ The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth centuryÂ’s greatest...
Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary + Australian Pocket Oxford Th
The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Australian Pocket Oxford Thesaurus Value Bundle is the ultimate reference pack for schools; homes and offices. It consists of the following two titles:• The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary Seventh Edition is Australia's bestselling dictionary. It provides extensive and unrivaled coverage of Australian English for a dictionary in this format. âÂ...
Where the Wild Dads Went
The night Dad had a few cheeky ones after work, forgot the milk and tripped over the rubbish, Mum called him A Wild Thing and left him to it for the rest of the evening…In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, a ‘tired and emotional’ dad finds himself drifting off to the place where the Wild Dads went. ‘Now party like real men!’ he said. And there was...
Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary
Bailli�re’s Midwives’ Dictionary remains the dictionary of choice for midwives throughout the world! The 13th edition of this established and well-respected pocket dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of midwives in a variety of clinical settings throughout the world. Woman friendly in approach with a variety of helpful illustrations, the dictionary also c...
What Is Poetry? - The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems
A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the countryÂ’s leading childrenÂ’s poets. Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invaluable handbook, he shares this knowledge and experience in book form for the very first time. S...
Rich Dad's Guide to Investing - What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Investing means different things to different peopleÂ…and there is a huge difference between passive investing and becoming an active, engaged investor. Rich DadÂ’s Guide to Investing, one of the three core titles in the Rich Dad Series, covers the basic rules of investing, how to reduce your investment risk, how to convert your earned income into passive incomeÂ…plus Rich DadÂ’s 10 Investor Contr...
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring ‘the woman question’, art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the poems. What Edgar Allan Poe called ‘her wild and magnificent genius’ is abundantly in evidenc...
The New Dad's Survival Guide - What to Expect in the First Year and Beyond
You read the pregnancy books, the nine months flew by without a hitch, the birth was brilliant and your healthy baby arrived on schedule. Job done, right? Often, the birth of your baby can feel like the end of the journey but really the adventure has only just begun. If you look down at you-junior, heart swelling with pride, then think ‘What now?’, this book is for you. In this essential guide...
Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms
If you think idioms are a “tough nut to crack,” pick up the revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS. Fun new design and more than 700 common American phrases, sayings, and expressions. Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don’t really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban m...
Collins Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary
The number one bestseller! This new edition of the much-loved BradfordÂ’s Crossword SolverÂ’s Dictionary offers even more. Now available in paperback with a clear text design, users will never again be short of answers to their crossword clues! BradfordÂ’s Crossword SolverÂ’s Dictionary is a unique type of crossword dictionary in that it has been compiled and crafted by a single author based on ...
Collected Poems - 1958 - 2015
The “technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems” (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume. Clive James’s reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as ‘Japanese Maple’ (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news...
Henry Lawson Poems
A stunning collection from one of Australia’s favourite poets. Readers have long embraced the passionate energy of Henry Lawson’s poems. this collection of 177 poems showcases the very best of Lawson – heart-rendering tales of the human condition, rousing poems of social protest, images of comic characters, and classic portraits such as Middleton’s rouseabout, as well as some of Lawson’s les...