Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon-"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winni ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
Complete Creative Writing Course by Chris Sykes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
LEARN HOW TO WRITE CREATIVELY WITH THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL COURSE.The only comprehensive Creative Writing title on the market that goes beyond introducing the basic genres to offering a complete journey along the writing path, including material on editing, redrafting and polishing a piece of w ...Show more
Complete Your Book Proposal in 5 Days - Your Path to Successful Book Publishing Starts Here by Paul Mikos
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A successful book starts with a great book proposal. Tired of being rejected by publishers and agents? The problem probably isn't your book--it's your book proposal. Give your book proposal a professional makeover in just five days with insider 's advice from the publishers themselves Based on a templat ...Show more
Creative Writer's Sourcebook: 50 Great Authors & 175 Writing Exercises by John Gillard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Discover 50 of the world’s greatest writers in this inspirational guide to exceptional writing. From Lynley Dodd to Peter Carey, profiles explore acclaimed writers’ style and work, then 175 writing exercises help you learn from them as you play with perspective, perfect characterisation, and craft openi ...Show more
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (HB) by John Cleese
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: near fine
____________________________ PRE-ORDER NOW- AVAILABLE 3rd SEPTEMBER 2020 Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical and often very amusing guide he shows it's a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawi ...Show more
Cult Writers by Ian Haydn Smith; Kristelle Rodeia (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
In Cult Writers Ian Haydn Smith introduces 50 novelists deserving of a cult status. The literary genres and subjects explored within these writers’ pages are rich and diverse – acting as mirrors of their genius minds: from Irvine Welsh’s gritty Edinburgh streets, to Ken Kesey’s drug-fuelled madness; fro ...Show more
Dear Writer ...revisited...: The Classic Guide to Writing Fiction by Carmel Bird
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
This book about writing and the imagination is essential reading for any writer, emerging or experienced. Re-released with new material and updated advice for the 21st writer. 'I first read Dear Writer as a nervy, secretive scribbler-in-journals 20 years ago. Reading this revised version I'm struck agai ...Show more
Dictionary of the Undoing by John Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to t ...Show more
Down in the Valley - A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition by Benjamin Dreyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don't - Dreyer's English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-no ...Show more
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
As the story goes- Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave us Amazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dyna ...Show more