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Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australia
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Goldilocks and the Three Koalas by Kel Richards and Claire Richards (illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Paperback | Series: Aussie Gems
Everyone called her 'Goldilocks', although her name was Shirley, because she had a mass of hair, fluffy, blonde and curly. Shirley goes out for a walk one day and comes across a little house in the bush. After letting herself in, thoroughly looking through (and messing up) the house, as well as helping ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
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