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Rebel Without a Clause by Susan Butler
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A long and intimate relationship with reading has taught acclaimed writer Tegan Bennett Daylight that - in life as in books - the delight is in the details. Tegan Bennett Daylight has led a life in books - as a writer, a teacher and a critic, but first and foremost as a reader. Reading has been her insp ...Show more
Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer''s Englishwill stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don''t - Dreyer''s English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-n ...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
The Trials of Portnoy by Patrick Mullins
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government offic ...Show more
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel - The Last Book on Novel Writing That You'll Ever Need by Jessica Brody
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat screenwritin ...Show more
For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles
$26.95 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existentia ...Show more
Letters to a Young Writer by Colum McCann
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes the perfect graduation gift: a lesson in how to be a writer, and so much more. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push th ...Show more
Inadvertent: Why I Write by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the ...Show more
On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony ...Show more
On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers by Richard Cooke
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson's relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters. In the Write ...Show more