Writing Your Life: A Journey of Discovery by Patti Miller
$24.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Experience of living and a desire to write are what qualify you to write a life story, the author argues. Her book is about the psychological and spiritual journey of "writing the self", and provides techniques for getting started, handling perspective and bringing experiences to life.
Great Writers Great Loves : The reinvention of love in the twentieth century by Ann-Marie Priest
$29.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
In this beguiling book, Ann-Marie Priest considers the love lives of our greatest twentieth century writers and claims that our current notions of love have been shaped by the affairs of these influential figures.In exploring ideas of sexuality, marriage, same-sex relationships and passionate friendship ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors by Robert Ritter
$54.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
A completely expanded, revised, and updated version of the first edition, this dictionary gives clear advice on common spelling difficulties, names of people and places, foreign words and phrases, abbreviations, and broad aspects of usage, including capitalization and punctuation.
On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft by KING S
$17.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: good
Dear Writer ...revisited...: The Classic Guide to Writing Fiction by Carmel Bird
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Reading Level: General Adult
This book about writing and the imagination is essential reading for any writer, emerging or experienced. Re-released with new material and updated advice for the 21st writer. 'I first read Dear Writer as a nervy, secretive scribbler-in-journals 20 years ago. Reading this revised version I'm struck agai ...Show more
The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way by Nava Atlas
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Popular author Nava Atlas explores 'the writing life' of famous women writers in this beautifully designed and illustrated book. The journals, letters, and diaries of twelve celebrated women writers, including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Madeleine L'Engle, Anais Nin, George Sand, Edith Wharton, and V ...Show more
Writing Dialogue - A Book of Writing Prompts by San Francisco San Francisco Writers' Grotto; Shanthi Sekaran (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Lit Starts Ser.
A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Dialogue begins a foreword by author and educator Shanthi Sekaran, who offers pointers for cre ...Show more
The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques by Henry Russell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why th ...Show more
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Georges Perec
$9.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these vi ...Show more
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
The go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . .__________ Why, like, does everyone keep saying 'like'? Why do apostrophe's keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases - and vice versa? Is it 'may be' or 'maybe'? Should it be ...Show more