Poetry 101: From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry by Susan Dalzell
$24.99 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
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
Reading Like An Australian Writer by Belinda Castles (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
This is an ode, a love letter, to the magic of reading. To the spark that's set off when the reader thinks ... I can do this too. Here, twenty-six writers take us through these moments of revelation through the dog-eared pages of their favourite Australian books. These writers come together to draw kno ...Show more
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and tea ...Show more
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel - The Last Book on Novel Writing That You'll Ever Need by Jessica Brody
$26.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Save the Cat! Ser.
The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat screenwritin ...Show more
Semicolon - How a Misunderstood Punctuation Mark Can Improve Your Writing, Enrich Your Reading and Even Change Your Life by Cecelia Watson
$17.99 AUD
Category: Writing
'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules. Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began teaching. And ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
Southerly 78-2 by Southerly (Created by)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Writing
The Lives of Others is concerned with the debts and obligations that accompany the passing of the generations. 'For no one bears this life alone' is how Hoelderlin describes the mutuality that binds us to our forebears. Each of the contributors to this issue of Southerly endeavours to understand the way ...Show more
Take Six - Six Portuguese Women Writers by Margaret Jull Costa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Dedalus Europe Ser.
Take Six is a celebration of six remarkable Portuguese women writers: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Agustina Bessa-Lu s, Maria Judite de Carvalho, H lia Correia, Teolinda Gers o and L dia Jorge. They are all past mistresses of the short story form, and their subject matter ranges from finding one's ...Show more