Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer's Middle English, Old English the language of Beowulf defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it...

Words are Eagles collects in one place the essays of award-winning novelist and nature writer, Gregory Day. Grounded in the landscape of southwestern Victoria, and infused with the heightened sense of place and environmental literacy that have long been key to Day's work, these essays traverse la...

A major collection of speeches by Nobel Laureate, Jose Ramos-Horta. Includes a call-to-action on the key issues facing our world today. The Twenty-first Century offers us a chance, a unique chance, to coalesce around common global interests - for example to reverse the nefarious consequences of c...

Barbara Lasserre brings the neglected world of onomatopoeia to life in this witty little gem of a book which will delight language lovers. If it goes 'moo' then every child knows it's a cow. If it goes 'Wham! Bam! Crash!' we're in a fast-paced comic. But what goes 'krknout'? Barbara Lasserre tak...

A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us...

Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over forty years. As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and aw...

The stand-up comedian presents a funny collection of essays on being a mom that explores themes like "geriatric" motherhood, parenting in an environmental panic, fear and love, and conflicting advice on raising children.

The previoously untold history of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms. From the Age of Heroes to the coming of the First Men; from the arrival of Aegon the Conqueror with his dragons to the fall of the Mad King, this is the dramatic backdrop to the struggle for power that is played out in George R. R...