The Right to Write by Julia Cameron
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles creat ...Show more
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
$45.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his attention to the writers of his own national lite ...Show more
How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a The ...Show more
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
'If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him ...There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be ...Show more
Simply English: An A-Z of Avoidable Errors by Simon Heffer
$22.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well. In Simply English he offers an entertaining and supremely useful A-Z guide to frequent errors, common misunderstandings and stylistic howlers. What is the difference between amend and emend, between imp ...Show more
Teeline for Journalists by Dawn Johnston
$79.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Aimed at journalism students, this work concentrates on the key terms and phrases they will encounter in their careers.
The Elements of Style, Illustrated by William Strunk, Jr. (Author) , E. B. White (Author) , Maira Kalman (Illustrated by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The book's mantra - make every word tell - is still on point. Whether seventeen or seventy, this much-loved classic, now in its fourth edition, will forever be the go-to g ...Show more
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt ...Show more
The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivi ...Show more
Copyfight: Firing Up Conversation About Copyright by Phillipa McGuinness
$29.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
Writers, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, lawyers and academics talk about why copyright matters to them - or doesn't. We expect to be able to log on and read, watch or listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. Then copy it, share it, quote it, sample it, remix it. Does this leave writers, designers, filmmak ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
Body Parts : Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in conn ...Show more