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Party Girls Die in Pearls by Plum Sykes
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: An Oxford Girl Mystery
Brideshead, bon-bons, cucumber sandwiches - and now a murder Pimm's, punting and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books - and, perhaps, an invitation to a ball. But wh ...Show more
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
$27.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything' After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent u ...Show more
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Edition 2008) by Robert Allen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
This invaluable reference work offers the best advice on English usage, drawing on the unrivalled resources of Oxford's English Dictionaries programme and language monitoring. This second edition of the Pocket Fowler harks back to the original 1926 edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henr ...Show more
Positive Education - The Geelong Grammar School Journey by Jacolyn M. Norrish
$97.95 AUD
Category: Educational | Series: Oxford Positive Psychology Ser.
As part of the Oxford Series in Positive Psychology, Positive Education: The Geelong Grammar School Journey is the story of one school's development of a more holistic approach to education: one with student wellbeing at its heart.Balancing academic findings from the thriving field of Positive Psycholog ...Show more
Power Sex Suicide by Lane Nick
$28.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondri ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by God
$42.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful daughter Lucy. Fi ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Perrault
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Pe ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. The stories give free rein to Wilde's origi ...Show more
The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books 31-40 by Livy .
$22.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. (Livy, 33. 33) Thus Livy describes the reaction to the Roman commander T.Q. Flamininus ...Show more
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.' The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by the death of his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora. Once the British Prime Minister, he is now in sole charge of his three wilful children. Lord Gerald has been sent down from University; Lord Silverbridge ha ...Show more
The Enormous Turnip by Ian Beck
$18.95 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years) | Series: An\Oxford Storybook Ser.
There once was a little old man who loved looking after his vegetables - they were his pride and joy. His secret of success, he thought, was that he whispered to his seedlings every night. "Come on, you little seedlings, grow, grow!" His wife thought he was a fool and believed it was her watering that a ...Show more