How to Write by Gertrude Stein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
First published in 1931, this volume offers Gertrude Stein's reflections on the art and craft of writing. Although written in her distinctive experimental style, the book is remarkably accessible and easy to read. The modernist author's characteristic humor is borne out by some of the chapter titles, "S ...Show more
How to Write Like a Writer - A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice by Thomas C. Foster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide. Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teachi ...Show more
How to Write about Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Binyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and creative force, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This ground-breaking collection brings together, for the first time, Binyavanga's pioneering writing on the African continent including many of his most critically ac ...Show more
How to be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia by Georgia Richter, Deborah Hunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn look at the business of becoming an author. In a friendly, informative and practical way they share all you need to know about inspiration and research, preparing to submit to a publisher, creating an author brand, legal, ethical and moral considerations, pitching and ef ...Show more
Improv for Writers - 10 Secrets to Help Novelists and Screenwriters Bypass Writer's Block and Generate Infinite Ideas by Jorjeana Marie
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Category: Writing
Improv instructor and writer Jorjeana Marie presents the first book to harness the creative power of improvisation exercises to help both aspiring and seasoned authors defeat writer's block and generate new ideas. Suffering from writer's block and inner critics? Having trouble generating ideas for plo ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
Inner Worlds Outer Spaces by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What does it feel like to be passionate about your daily work? How do people find their way into fascinating, unusually fulfilling careers, even against the odds? Space lawyers and bibliotherapists; euthanasia activists and women's rugby champions; shark experts and solar power visionaries; a master per ...Show more
Journal Writer's Companion by Alyss Thomas
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Category: Writing
Numerous studies show that journal writing is a fantastic resource that can significantly impact your life, but few people know how to go about it effectively in order to gain lasting positive results. The Journal Writer's Companion aims to change this. Designed to be a clear, practical guide to using j ...Show more
K. by Roberto Calasso
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
$26.95 AUD
Category: Writing
A final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, a ...Show more
Leading Lines - How to Make Speeches that seize the moment, advance you cause and lead the way by Lucinda Holdforth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
How to make speeches that seize the moment, advance your cause and lead the way. For those who aim to be leaders, mastering the power of speechmaking - the art and craft of persuasion - is more important than ever. If you want to be heard, it's not enough to have something to say: you must know how to s ...Show more