Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter by John McWhorter
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much. Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant ...Show more
Method Writing - The First Four Concepts by Jack Grapes
$80.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Method Writing is a powerful approach to finding your deep voice and activating the creative process. Based on a series of concepts and exercises Grapes has used in his writing workshops over the last 30-plus years, Method Writing does more than describe techniques: it takes you step-by-step through a p ...Show more
Advanced Method Writing by Jack Grapes
$65.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
METHOD WRITING is based on concepts developed by Jack Grapes and used in his writing workshops over the last 35 years. This method activates the creative process by expanding and deepening the writer's voice through a step-by-step series of exercises. The result is work that is unique and powerful. Grap ...Show more
The Darcy Myth - Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Rachel Feder
$33.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a boo ...Show more
The World Broke in Two - Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year That Changed Literature by Bill Goldstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A revelatory narrative charting the lives and works of legendary authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts, ' the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Yet for Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eli ...Show more
My Trade Is Mystery - Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips
$30.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture In these intimate and eloquent meditations, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about the writing life, an "apprenticeship to what can never fully be mastered ...Show more
A Horse at Night by Amina Cain
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
"A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book." --Ayşegül Savaş"I adore her work, and sensibili ...Show more
How Words Get Good by Rebecca Lee
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Catnip for booklovers - a funny, warm and fascinating insight into the world of making books, by an expert
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
$31.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, ...Show more
Writers and Their Teachers by Dale Salwak (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Andrew Motion, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina ...Show more
How to Read and Why by Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong rea ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more