Nail Your Next Essay - Plan, Research and Write Your Essay by Bronwyn Hall
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Category: Writing
Nail Your Next Essay is full of every tip and trick students need to get their thoughts organised. Written especially for high school students with a step-by-step process to follow (and an accompanying teacher's handbook available for classroom use), this comprehensive and approachable planner is what h ...Show more
Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing
From Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night, this is one of the most practical guides to storytelling that you will ever read. The world is on fire.So tell your story. Things are scary right now. We're all ...Show more
New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary by Oxford Editor
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Category: Writing | Series: Oxford Quick Reference Ser.
From writing poems to writing birthday cards, and from composing advertising slogans to music lyrics, the New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary has what every writer (or budding writer) needs. It contains rhymes for over 45,000 words, including proper names, place names, and foreign terms used in English. The c ...Show more
Nobody's Looking at You - Essays by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Writing | Reading Level: 4
Janet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was 'unmistakably the work of a master' (New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and the New Yor ...Show more
Novelista - Anyone Can Write a Novel. Yes, Even You by Claire Askew
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Category: Writing
NOVELISTA is a friendly, straight-talking writing guide for people who want to write a novel but don't know how to begin. It asks all the important questions and gives a host of reassuring answers that demonstrate that anyone can write a novel - even you! To begin with, what the hell is a novel? It's ...Show more
On JM Coetzee: Writers on Writers - Ceridwen Dovey by Ceridwen Dovey
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Category: Writing
'I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared ...Show more
Orwell and the Dispossessed by George Orwell; Peter Davison (Editor)
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Category: Writing
The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, livi ...Show more
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race by Esi Edugyan
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Category: Writing
Two-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art. History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who ...Show more
Picturebook Makers by Sam McCullen
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Category: Writing
What exists in the space between the words and the pictures? How do the stories unfold? What happens between the first sketch and finished picturebook? Twelve of the world's finest contemporary picturebook makers generously share their experiences, challenges, doubts, sketches, illustrations, and inval ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
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Category: Writing
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
Poetry 101: From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry by Susan Dalzell
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Category: Writing | Series: Adams 101 Ser.
Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write now, whether we realize it or not--especially i ...Show more
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
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Category: Writing
An excitingly revisionist history of bibliophilia, from the celebrated author of This is Shakespeare 'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The ...Show more