The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
In The Best Australian Stories 2016, Charlotte Wood, author of The Natural Way of Things (winner of the 2016 Stella Prize, and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year), presents twenty pieces of outstanding short fiction. Featuring the work of exciting new voices alongside stories by established favourites, thi ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamsoncurates the year's best non-fiction writing from Australia's finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to ...Show more
Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964 by Alison Hoddinott (Ed)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
This volume edited and with invaluable notes by Alison Hoddinott, comprises Gwen Harwood's fascinating, unexpurgated letters to Alison and Bill Hoddinott, during four crucial years from 1960-1964, a period which can be described as Harwood's creative floreat. They are also years in which her life-long r ...Show more
The 25 Rules of Grammar: The Essential Guide to Good English by Joseph Piercy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Everything you need to know about the 25 essential rules of English grammar. English grammar is often said to be over-complicated and difficult to get to grips with but the truth is that, while there are certain rules that should be obeyed, the language evolves and develops over time - and quite rightly ...Show more
The Book That Made Me: A Collection of 32 Personal Stories by Various
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: very good
The Book That Made Me is a celebration of the books that influenced some of the most acclaimed authors from Australia and the world. Inspirational. Affecting. A perfect collection of personal stories for book lovers! Personal stories by fantastic authors such as Markus Zusak, Jaclyn Moriarty, Shaun Tan, ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
Notes on an Exodus by Richard Flanagan
$9.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Notes on the exodus of refugees from Syria, by Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan. With illustrations from Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty. In January 2016 Richard Flanagan and Ben Quilty travelled to Lebanon, Greece, and Serbia to follow the river that is the exodus of our age: that of refugees ...Show more
The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World by William Egginton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing
'In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes di ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: very good
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...Show more
Use Your Words: A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing by Catherine Deveny
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Want to write? Got a memoir, novel, screenplay or blog in your back drawer? Need to get 'unstuck'? This is the magic pill you've been looking for. In Use Your Words writer and comedian Catherine Deveny reveals the secrets that have made her 'Gunnas' Writing Masterclasses sell-out successes around the co ...Show more
Still Life with Teapot: On Zen, Writing and Creativity by Brigid Lowry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
The good thing about being my age is that if you haven't grown up already, you don't have to. What do you do when you start talking to yourself on the bus? If you're the writer Brigid Lowry, you change tack and write a book about what it means to be an ageing woman in the 21st century In Still Life wi ...Show more