Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female e ...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
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
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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
Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Steven Taylor (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs' classic novelNaked Lunch. The visit coincided with the s ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale (PB) by Martin Latham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with ...Show more
Frantumaglia: Fragments: on Writing and Reading by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Writing Guides
Elena Ferrante is one of the greatest novelists of our time. Read her novels and don't worry about who she is: you will be entranced by her writing. Fragments is a riveting compilation, over the course of her writing career, of Elena Ferrante's letters to her publisher, interviews with editors and journ ...Show more
Mark My Words - Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature by Lee Clark Mitchell
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Category: Writing Guides
Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cu ...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 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
Making a Point: The Pernickity Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
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Category: Writing Guides
Behind every punctuation mark lie a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, inspiring organisations like ...Show more
Slam Your Poetry: Write a Revolution by Miles Merrill, Narcisa Nozica
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
Miles Merrill, spoken word artist and founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take you from to spoken word superstar in no time. With tips from legends of the Australian poetry slam scene, 'Slam Your Poetry' privides step by step instructions and excercises tha ...Show more
Being a Writer: Advice, Musings, Essays and Experiences from the World's Greatest Authors by Travis Elborough; Helen Gordon
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Category: Writing Guides
The joys and challenges of being a writer are explored in this inspiring assemblage of wit, wisdom and hard-won practical advice from some of the world's greatest authors musing on the art of writing and how they came to define themselves as writers. From Samuel Johnson in eighteenth-century London to L ...Show more
Literary Wonderlands by Laura Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about the society, natural surroundings and experience of being of which they are a pa ...Show more