How to be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia by Georgia Richter, Deborah Hunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
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
Lonely Planet Kids First Words - Italian: 100 Italian words to learn by Lonely Planet Kids
$19.99 AUD
Category: Languages | Series: Lonely Planet Kids Ser.
Bring the Italian language to life with this beautifully illustrated children's book from Lonely Planet Kids, an imprint of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide and phrasebook publisher. Perfect for the whole family, First Words Italian features 100 words to use while travelling, from food an ...Show more
Finish Your First Novel - A No-Bull Guide to Actually Completing Your First Draft by Char Anna
$32.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
Jumpstart Your Creative FLOW, Banish Writer's Block and (Finally) Write Your Dream Novel Whether a story has just popped into your brain or you've been dreaming about it for years, it's easier than ever to power through your first manuscript with this must-have guide from writing coach Char Anna. Char d ...Show more
Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Languages | Reading Level: very good
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...In this hymn to the mother tongue Bill Bryson examines how a language 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' has now become the undisputed global language (more people ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Languages
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Mental Floss: The Curious Reader: | Facts About Famous Authors and Novels | Book Lovers and Literary Interest | A Literary Miscellany of No by Erin Mccarthy
$41.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Mental Floss Ser.
Readers rejoice Learn amazing facts about authors and their books, from Jane Austen to JRR Tolkien. Readers rejoice From Mental Floss, an online destination for more than a billion curious minds since its founding in 2001, comes the ultimate book for lovers of literature. From Americanah to War and ...Show more
More than Holden Our Own: 75 Year Anniversary Edition by William James Holden
$49.99 AUD
Category: Languages and Reference
More than Holden our own is an expanded, commemorative edition marking the 75th and 100th anniversary of the first Australian motor body for General Motors built by Holden Motor Body Builder. With more intricate and equally fascinating details, more hitherto unknown facts and more myth busting. In fact ...Show more
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
$27.99 AUD
Category: Languages | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | 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
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous | 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
Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus Pocket Edition [7th Edition] by Collins Dictionaries
$20.99 AUD
Category: Dictionaries/ Thesaurus | Series: Collins Pocket | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
Two books in one with all the words you need at your fingertips. With matching dictionary and thesaurus entries on the same page, you'll never be stuck for words again! This Dictionary and Thesaurus is easy on the eye and will help you find all the words, definitions and alternatives you need - and fast ...Show more