Language & Linguistics Books

Academic Writing Is ... demystifies many of the practices of academic writing for students in an Australian university. This is an indispensable guide for any students undertaking university studies in Australia who want to develop their academic writing...

Judith Wright (19152000) remains a giant figure within Australian art, culture and politics. Her 1946 collection of poetry, The Moving Image, revolutionised Australian poetry. She helped to establish the modern Australian environmental movement and was a...

Surveys show that most people fear public speaking more than death! So, how do you prepare effectively for a speaking engagement? What do you need to know about your body, your voice, the audience, the technology? Maggie Eyre has over 30 years’...

Lonely Planet's South Pacific Phrasebook is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Spanish phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Chat over dinner with a local family in Fiji, understand the hula...

Lonely Planet Malay Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Malay phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order street food, shop at markets and ask for trekking...

Lonely Planet Lao Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Lao phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Get recommendations for local dishes and directions to historic...

Lonely Planet Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs...

Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook & CD is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Japanese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Learn onsen etiquette, make friends, and order dishes with...

Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook & CD is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Mandarin phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order dishes with ease, ask directions and chat to locals - all...

Lonely Planet Spanish Phrasebook & CD is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Spanish phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order regional specialties, and chat about life and art with new...

Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook & CD is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Italian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Shop at farmers' markets, discuss art and life, and order wine...

Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & CD is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Shop at farmers' markets, navigate menus and order wine like a...

Lonely Planet Filipino (Tagalog) Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Filipino (Tagalog) phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Chat with locals and navigate menus...

Lonely Planet Dutch Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Dutch phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Understand art and culture, and ask for directions with...

Lonely Planet Tibet Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Tibetan phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for trekking directions and order dishes with...

Lonely Planet Africa Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful African phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Say hello, ask directions and make friends in Amharic to...

Lonely Planet's Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful European phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for directions to historical sites, delve further...

Lonely Planet's Western Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful European phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for directions to historic sites, learn...

Lonely Planet's Mediterranean Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful European phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for directions to the best beaches,...

Lonely Planet's Eastern Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful European phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for directions to historic sites, order...

Lonely Planet's Central Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful European phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for recommendations for thermal baths, shop...

Lonely Planet's Quechua Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Quechua phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for hiking directions, learn about local culture...

Lonely Planet's Central Asia Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Central Asian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Break the ice with local greetings, delve...

Never be stuck for words with our extensive dictionary. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases. Chat with the locals and discover their culture, a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience. Get more...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Anyone can speak another language! It's all about confidence. The mother tongue of illustrious personalities such as Copernicus, Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Marie Curie and Pope John Paul II has a...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherAnyone can speak another language! It's all about confidence.This book will give you all the practical phrases you need to explore the countryside, visit Golden Prague, and tour castles and...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherSoutheast Asia... many faces, many places, many ways to get tongue-tied. From Hue to Vientiene, from Phuket to Phnom Penh, turn your travel challenges into unforgettable experiences. Order the...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Admirers of Russian literature claim that the 'Slavic soul' of writers such as Chekhov or Tolstoy can't be fully appreciated in translation. For the less ambitious, the language will bring you...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Hungarian is a unique language. Though distantly related to Finnish, it has no significant similarities to any other language in the world. If you have some background in European languages you'll...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Indonesian, or Bahasa Indonesia as it's known to the locals, is the official language of the Republic of Indonesia. Indonesian, and its closest relative Malay, both developed from Old Malay, an...

Bring the Mandarin language to life with this beautifully illustrated children's book from Lonely Planet Kids, an imprint of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide and phrasebook publisher. Perfect for the whole family, First Words Mandarin...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher With Lonely Planet's Ukrainian Phrasebook, let no barriers - language or culture - get in your way. Grab this phrasebook and drop into Lviv, the pulsating heart of Ukraine, take in the holy...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherToss another shrimp on the barbie, crack open a tinny or pour yourself a chardy while you traverse Australia's vast expanse of true blue, fair dinkum Aussie lingo - from cosmopolitan communique to...

The Grammar 3 Pupil Book (in print letters) is the fourth year of the Jolly Phonics and Grammar programme. Designed to follow on from the Jolly Phonics Pupil Books 1, 2 and 3, the Grammar Pupil Books build on the skills taught in Jolly Phonics, and...

Quick-reference summary to French grammar.

There's a TARDIS cookie jar in our kitchen. A Picard air freshener in our car. And we won't even mention Harry Potter in the bathroom. We're geeks and proud of it! But is there nothing for baby? Inconceivable!Introducing 100 First Words for...

New to the successful So. Many. Stickers. series, So. Many. Letter Stickers. features 50 sheets of fun and colourfully designed alphabet stickers. Perfect for decorating planners, snail mail, personal belongings, and more!Say it, shout it...

An indispensable guide to welcoming children—from babies to teens—to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review.   Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are?...

Have we wetted your appetite? Peaked your interest? Are you waiting with baited breath? Or could you care less? Pull your socks together! For all intensive purposes, this is the book for you. This cute, funny book features gorgeous illustrations...

Providing comfort food and inspiration for the aspiring novelist, How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies offers novelist and writing coach Amy Wallen’s insider secrets on living the writing life. Filled with chapters about writing, revising, submitting to an...

A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Islands through song. The songs presented in this book hold cultural, genealogical, geographical and spiritual...

The trouble with punctuation – well, ones of the troubles, anyway – is that too many of the experts suggest leaving it to the writer's judgement. What use is that if you've simply never been taught the difference between a colon and a semicolon, or where...

There's a time for yes – and there's a time for no.Oh Hell No! is a collection of art and essays that serve a much-needed reminder to say no to anything that might waste our precious energy.

A marriage of two of our bestselling series, Calligraphuck and One Line a Day, this keepsake journal includes space to record a brief note every day over the course of five years, allowing journallers to reflect on the past as they capture the present...

An amusing foray into the complexities of the English language, this title covers a range of grammatical errors from incorrectly used prepositions to misplaced modifiers.

Meet Nikki Hind, the blind fashion designer with her own fashion label. When she was growing up, Nikki couldn’t see out of her left eye.That didn’t stop her from dressing-up and making her own clothes though. When she put on different outfits, she could...