Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2022 by Bloomsbury Yearbook
$55.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Writers' and Artists' Ser.
The latest edition of the bestselling guide to all you need to know about how to get published, is packed full of advice, inspiration and practical information. The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook has been guiding writers and illustrators on the best way to present their work, how to navigate the world ...Show more
The Writer Laid Bare: Emotional Honesty in a Writer’s Art, Craft and Life by Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Inspired by her popular writing courses, Lee also offers practical advice on drafts, edits and how to achieve a life/writing balance. How combining her writing with motherhood led her to recognise that ‘ the pram in the hall’ issue is real. Plus the ultimate reading list of books you really should ...Show more
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Louise; Wilder Willder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A small masterpiece. There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiring on every single page' Jenny Colgan, Spectator A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bi ...Show more
The Copywriters Handbook 4Th Ed by Bly Robert W
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
This is a book for everyone who writes or approves copy: copywriters, multichannel marketers, creative directors, freelance writers, marketing managers . . . even small business owners and information marketers. It reveals dozens of copywriting techniques that can help you write both print and online ad ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Writing
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition by Benjamin Dreyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will 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-no ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
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Category: Writing | Series: Modern Classics
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Writing
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
The Big Book of Rogues and Villains by Otto (EDT) Penzler
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Category: Writing
The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common- a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt ou ...Show more
Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula by Christopher Frayling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Christopher Frayling has spent 45 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture - the vampire. Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more