She played and sang: Jane Austen and music by Gillian Dooley
$45.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influen ...Show more
Marlow's Dream - Joseph Conrad in Antipodean Ports by Martin Edmond
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is a major figure in modern literature. Before his writing career was established in 1899 with the serialised publication of Heart of Darkness, Conrad was a merchant seafarer and eventually a shipmaster of vessels that regularly sailed between Europe and its antipodes, with sev ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time l ...Show more
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