Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
'One of my absolute favourite writers' Decca Aitkenhead Who would we be without stories? Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: very good
Ray: "Readers of “Between you and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” will be enchanted by this sequel of sorts. And if you haven’t read "Comma Queen,” you will after finishing “Greek to Me,” and learning how Greek helped Norris, an international literary treasure, come to know the derivation of many Eng ...Show more
Forgotten Women: the Writers by Zing Tsjeng
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - Independent The women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a new ...Show more
The Secret Life of Books (PB) by Tom Mole
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: near fine
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves, give them as gifts, write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. The Secret Life of Books is about everything that isn' ...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
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably sh ...Show more
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. 'Like a bedtime story for the rest of your life, this is a book to live by. At its core ...Show more
Improv for Writers - 10 Secrets to Help Novelists and Screenwriters Bypass Writer's Block and Generate Infinite Ideas by Jorjeana Marie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
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
How Fiction Works by James Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: fair
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" and Milan Kundera's "The Art of the Novel", "How Fiction Works" is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of c ...Show more
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher. Draft No. 4is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most ...Show more
Novel in a Year: A Novelist's Guide to Being a Novelist by Louise Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
From the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama starring Emily Watson Can you write a novel in a year? If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book, it will seem like a vast and unconquerable task, impossibly daunting. The way to make it less daunting is to break it do ...Show more