The Writer's Devotional: 365 Inspirational Exercises, Ideas, Tips & Motivations on Writing by Amy Page
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, screenplays or poetry, or simply trying to keep a more compelling journal or blog, this invaluable volume will get your creative juices flowing. Beautifully designed with a cloth-bound cover and ribbon place marker, it's filled with 365 inspiring quotations ...Show more
On Reading by Marcel Proust
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: On
Collected in this unique volume are rare Proustian reflections on this most cherished of activities, together with the work he arguably held dearest, and which was to influence his own philosophy profoundly: Ruskin's 'Of Kings' Treasuries'. 'To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one ...Show more
The Story of Writing - Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: very good
Aims to demystify writing for the general reader. This book explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script for each of the major writing systems in turn, and follows the discovery of writing forms from cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of Japan today.
SHOP TALK by Philip Roth
$24.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Features a diverse cast of writers who explore the importance of region, politics, and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualised art is informed by the wider conditions of life. This work concludes with the authors essay "Rereading Saul Bellow", a pre ...Show more
Proust by Edmund White
$19.75 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
This literary biography of Marcel Proust provides readers with an insight into the recluse who lay all night long in his cork-lined room, obsessively rewriting his one massive work. It also shows the yearning lonely boy, the brilliant wit - and the miserably closeted homosexual.
Pears' Cyclopaedia 2017-2018 by Chris Cook
$55.00 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
The quintessentially British almanac, Pears' Cyclopaedia continues to inform and intrigue generations of readers with its unique mix of solid facts and fascinating gems. Now in its 126th year, this ultimate volume offers clear and concise information on such wide-ranging subjects as global events, Norse ...Show more
The Human Body by Dorling Kindersley
$27.00 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
Detailed illustrations supported by extensive annotations cover every part of the human body in this concise, easy-to-understand guide.
The Meaning of Tingo and other estraordinary words from around the world by Adam Jacot de Boinod
$24.95 AUD
Category: Miscellaneous
Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means 'to take off your clothes in order to dance'? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or that the Dutch word for skimming stones is plimpplamppletteren? Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 154 languages, th ...Show more