The Writer's Game: Modern Authors by Alex Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptations, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Franz Kafka? Who courted the most scandal, Colette or James Joyce? Pit 32 of the world's greatest modern writers against each other with these beautiful ...Show more
The Writer's Journey - 25th Anniversary Edition - Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Originally an influential memo Vogler wrote for Walt Disney Animation executives regarding The Lion King, The Writer's Journey details a twelve-stage, myth-inspired method that has galvanized Hollywood's treatment of cinematic storytelling. A format that once seldom deviated beyond a traditional three-a ...Show more
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A true celebration of literature in its many forms, The Written World and the Unwritten Worldbrings together essays, articles, interviews, forewords and notes from the inimitable mind of Italo Calvino. The fate of the novel, reading and translation are just some of the subjects examined in this remarkab ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
'Beautifully researched account, full of humour and personal insight'David Crystal, author of Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar 'A witty, wise, and wonderfully weird journey that will change the way you think . . . This book is a delight'Bianca Bosker, author of Cork Dork: A Wine-Fue ...Show more
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
$23.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: very good
**A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year** From one of Canada's most distinctive and intelligent emerging voices, a heartfelt collection of essays in Durga Chew-Bose's captivating and truly inimitable style. In Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philos ...Show more
Watsonia: A Writing Life by Don Watson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing
No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale... Watsonia collects the fruits of a writing life. It covers everything from Australian bush humour to America gone berserk; from Don Bradman to Oscar Wilde; from Animal Farmto the Australian parliament. Wher ...Show more
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?: A Handbook for the Rejected Writer by Fay Weldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of w ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
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Category: Writing | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
Wild Things - The Joy of Reading Children's Literature As an Adult by Bruce Handy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Like many avid readers, Bruce Handy had fond memories of iconic books by Dr. Seuss, Beverly Clear, Maurice Sendax, and other children's authors. But when he became a parent himself, revisiting the kids' books he had been raised with, Handy realized that there was much more to them than initially met his ...Show more
Wild Words by Nicole Gulotta
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Part memoir and part spirit guide, Wild Words is a book about the intersection of our creative soul with everything else, and how to make peace, make priorities, and ultimately, make progress by slowing down and embracing whatever season we're in, right now. This isn't a how-to guide filled with systems ...Show more
Without Prejudice: Black Britain: Writing Back by Nicola Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Black Britain: Writing Back Ser.
Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background- in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her. After she takes on the high-profile case of notorious millionaire playboy Clive Omartian - arrested along with his father and stepbrot ...Show more