Australians pride themselves on being easy-going & informal. Their vocabulary with its colour humour & inventiveness reflects these qualities. This thoroughly entertaining Aussie Slang Dictionary will help you decipher & speak the true Aussie language. Full of dazzling definitions from true-blue Aussies youll never be lost for words with this collection of colourful sayings. From aerial ping-pong (Australian Rules Football) to on the wrong tram (to be following the wrong train of thought) & finishing up with some verbal diarrhoea (never-ending blather) your mind will be brimming with useful (and not so useful!) sayings for your next run-in with a true Aussie character. & for dinki-di Aussies living in the UK use this book to expand your vocabulary & increase your unique way of communicating. ...

A pictorial guide to the most colourful Australian slanguage & expressions. Learn what it means to be as busy as a blow fly at a barbecue or so poor youre licking paint off the fence. Or if a fellow man has mouse traps in his pockets or has only one oar in the water. Delve into this informative intriguing & hilarious collection of true Aussie-Strine sayings & appreciate their unique way of putting their spin on the English language. What distinguishes this Aussie slang dictionary from other publications are the 47 full-page full-colour photographs which demonstrate some of the sayings. Just imagine what the photograph looks like which illustrates youve landed with your bum in the butter! ...

Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women however Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own? In this addictive charming & compassionate story Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us. ...

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Includes:: beautiful crochet designs inspired by the world of Jane Austen. Austentatious Crochet"

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There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The Austere Academy": In these chapters the children face snapping crabs strict punishments dripping fungus comprehensive exams violin recitals S.O.R.E. & the metric system." ...

For the first time the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices
- vivid unselfconscious & unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyones troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their betters. Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast still in police uniform) Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) & Doris Lessing newly arrived from Africa struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political economic & social landscape for the next three decades. Deeply researched often amusing & always intensely entertaining & readable the first volume of David Kynastons ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years.
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' An enthralling account' Independent 'A fascinating book...researched with an awesome thoroughness' Daily Telegraph ' Hampton's excellent book should be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the 2012 London Olympics' Daily Mail Critic's Choice The budget for the 2012 Olympic village alone is already a billion pounds short. The likelihood of corporate sponsorship recedes with every day of the credit crunch. How on earth are we going to match the opening & closing ceremonies of Beijing let along top them? Fortunately London has been through just such hard times before in the run-up to an Olympics & in 1948 it showed just how to run a fantastic Games on a tiny budget
- indeed make them all the better for it. Janie Hampton's book about the last time the Olympics came to London is a tale of female competitors sewing their own kit teams ferried to the Games on red London buses & billeted in Spartan hostels or even army camps & the main stadium being hastily cleared of greyhound racing to allow the athletics to take place. The total budget was GBP760 000 great athletes like Emil Zatopek & Fanny Blankers-Koen thrilled the crowds & at the end a profit was turned! This is a book that becomes more relevant & ironically entertaining every day nearer to 2012. Janie Hampton is also the author of a bestselling biography of Joyce Grenfell. She lives in Oxford
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A special tenth-anniversary edition of W.G. Sebalds modern classic Austerlitz" with a new introduction by James Wood. In 1939 five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport & placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity & he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life after a career as an architectural historian Austerlitz
- having avoided all clues that might point to his origin
- finds the past returning to haunt him & he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebalds melancholic masterpiece. " Mesmeric haunting & heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald." (Eileen Battersby " Irish Times"). " Greatness in literature is still possible." (" John Banville" " Irish Times" " Books of the Year"). "A work of obvious genius." (" Literary Review"). "A fusion of the mystical & the solid... His art is a form of justice
- there can be I think no higher aim." (" Evening Standard"). " Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art." (" The Times Literary Supplement"). "I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague & their treatment by the Nazis." (" Observer"). "A great book by a great writer." (Boyd Tonkin " Independent"). W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 & settled permanently in England in 1970 where he was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia until his death in 2001. He is the author of four works of fiction: " The Emigrants" which won the Berlin Literature Prize the Heinrich Heine Prize & the Joseph Breitbach Prize; " The Rings of Saturn; Vertigo; & Austerlitz" which was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize & the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alongside this stand books of poetry " For Years Now" " After Nature" " Unrecounted" & " Across the Land & the Water" & the non-fiction books " On the Natural History of Destruction" & " Campo Santo"."


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Island country continent Australia sure is a big one! Its essence is diversity: deserts tropical reefs towering forests mountains & multicultural cities. Charles Rawlings-Way & Meg Worby Lonely Planet Writers Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage & you can rely on us to tell it like we see it. Inside This Book 13 authors 158 maps 25 800km of coastline 1 snake in a canoe Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Pull-out map Great Barrier Reef Trip feature Comprehensive planning tools In-depth background ...