Puncher & Wattmann

Alex Jones, after a brief career in the law, spent his working life teaching at the University of Sydney. His interests there have included Old English, linguistic theory, the literature of fantasy, and Australian English, both written and spoken, but he counts as his greatest intellectual influence time spent working on the Gurindji language at Wattie Creek (NT).

Puncher and Wattmann titles by Alex Jones

• samples: Alex Jones, from ’ Helen Garner and the Meaning of Everything’