Always Take Notes: Advice from the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam
$40.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five ...Show more
A Novel Idea by Fiona McGregor
$29.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
A unique, intimate portrait of writer's working life,as experienced by one of Australia's most highly regarded novelists and artists. A Novel Idea is a memoir in photoessay form that follows Fiona McGregor's life as she writes her award-winning novel Indelible Ink. It is a tongue-in-cheek rumination on ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner (Editor)
$60.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer, feminist Chaucer, misogynist Chaucer, radical Chaucer and conservative Chaucer, among many other interpretatio ...Show more
Great Books of China by Frances Wood
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Discover or rediscover the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the c ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
Great Short Books - A Year of Reading--Briefly by Kenneth C. Davis
$53.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A delightful, entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time from a bestselling historian, author, and lifelong reader.Fall back into the joys of literature with an extraordinary book for book lovers: a compulsively readable, deeply engaging list of great short novels. A journey into sh ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
On Thomas Keneally: Writers on Writers by Stan Grant
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Stan Grant is drawn to Thomas Keneally 'for many reasons- we share an Irish heritage and a complicated relationship with religion. I am especially interested in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, which was a formative novel for me. My family shares a connection with the real Jimmy Governor as well. The boo ...Show more
Writing True Stories: The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction by Patti Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
This book provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid world on the page, create structure, use research-and face the difficulties of truth-telling. The author first introduces and helps the reader ...Show more
My Trade Is Mystery - Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips
$20.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture"Illuminating, deeply endearing essays."--Ron Charles, Washington Post "A lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers."--Diego Báez, Booklist In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award- ...Show more
Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate more effectively in the real world by Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink
$33.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
We were all taught the fundamentals of writing well in school. But how do we write effectively in today's hyper-interactive world?When The Elements of Style and On Writing Well were published in 1959 and 1976, the internet hadn't been invented. Since then, there has been a radical transformation in how ...Show more