301 Things to Write by Bushel & Peck Books
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Reference | Series: 301 Things to Do Ser.
Age range 6+Not a how-to book, kids will instead find over 300 creative prompts to get them putting pencil to paper — and loving it.Write the TRUE story of Goldilocks, what happened after Cinderella got married, what you'd do if YOU were president, which superhero would win in an epic brawl, and more.So ...Show more
A Fixed Place - The Long and Short of Story by Kathleen Mary Fallon
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Category: Writing
What was it like, living through the social, cultural and political upheaval of the last fifty years of the twentieth century in this Lucky Country? With Life flying forward into the future, what could be held onto, and what self (that place which is never fixed) could fix and hold the experience of tho ...Show more
A Secret Vice : Tolkein on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien; Dimitra Fimi (Editor); Andrew Higgins (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing
First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in lif ...Show more
A Writer's Year - 365 Creative Writing Prompts by Emma Bastow
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Develop regular creative writing practice with this interactive journal, full of simple, witty and playful ideas every writer will enjoy. They say that everyone has a book in them, but who has the time to sit down and find it? This journal, filled with creative writing prompts for every day of the year ...Show more
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime Spanning the 1930s to present day, After Agatha charts the explosion in women's crime writing and ...Show more
Aftershocks - Selected Writings and Interviews by Anthony Macris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Bad Words: And What They Tell Us by Philip Gooden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To be insulted as a 'snowflake' or an 'expert' is arguably worse than being called a **** or a **** or even a ****. So what are today's 'bad words' and how a ...Show more
Beautiful Writers - A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts by Linda Sivertsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
". . . often funny and entertaining." --Publishers Weekly "I own every writing book ever written, and Linda Sivertsen has done the near-impossible: given writing itself a personality . . . Her stories are cinematic, hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfect--with energy and punch, so often lacking in no ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Canons Ser.
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wis ...Show more
Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown
$39.95 AUD
Category: Writing
In Black Utopias Jayna Brown looks to utopia as a way of exploring new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Brown uses the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany ...Show more
Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon
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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