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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 baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench compla...

A bunch of Aussies have spent the day at the beach. They wind up in one blokes backyard, where the barbie is firedup and loaded with grub steaks and veg and such. Later, over a cold drink, one bloke starts telling stories.They are some of the best know and best loved stories in the world, stories that have been told on every continent on earth, stories that have been circling the world for 2, 000 years. They are stories about the carpenter who...

Are you seeing your mates this arvo because it's been yonks? Do you shout "ave a go, ya mug' to your football team from the stands? Or tell your mate his team has got Buckley's chance of winning the AFL Grand Final? Do you mutter 'stone the crows' when surprised? Perhaps you've got your wobbly boots on? Aussie English may be the most inventive and creative language in the world. This larrikin lexicography by Kel Richards tells the stories behi...

Featuring the fictional character Clive Staples (aka 'Jack') Lewis as an amateur detective, presented with a mysterious crime.

Dear Jack, I think I'm about to be arrested and charged with murder.' Tom Morris, busy cataloguing the library of Plumwood Hall, is in a fix. Three days before, a member of the family had keeled over at afternoon tea after eating a slice of fruit cake laced with poison. And Tom has been fingered by the weasel-like Inspector Hyde as chief suspect. The young scholar turns to the only person who can help: his old Oxford tutor, C. S. ('Jack') Lewi...

Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of "Englishes”. A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.

The 3rd title in the crime series set in the 1930s and featuring Clive Staples Lewis, known to his friends as Jack, as an amateur detective. Woven throughout the story is an engaging conversation about Lewis's Christian worldview. *Also appeared in January Buyer's Notes*

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