What's Wrong? Making Sense of Nonsense by Geoffrey Gibson; Chris Wallace-Crabbe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Around the world, people have witnessed a decline in thinking and language. 'Social media' has maimed language and manners; it has brought us the violent madness of conspiracy. Twisted media are infected. In Australia, our schools have not kept up. People ignorant of both logic and grammar are unleashe ...Show more
The Library Lovers' Miscellany by Claire Cock-Starkey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing
What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a colony of bats?Bursting with potted histories, quirky facts, and enlightening lists, this book explores every aspect of the library, celebrating these remarka ...Show more
The Rumi Prescription by Moezzi, Melody
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet. Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, ...Show more
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
'Fascinating. It blew my mind!' - Malcolm Gladwell Wonderworks reveals that literature is among the mightiest technologies that humans have ever invented, precision-honed to give us what our brains most want and need. Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer to ...Show more
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanaly ...Show more
The Last Days of Chez Nous and Two Friends: Text Classics by Helen Garner; Laura Jones (Afterword by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Text Classics Ser.
These screenplays showcase the range of one of Australia's greatest writers.The Last Days of Chez Nous was directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1991, andTwo Friends by Jane Campion in 1986. These funny, sharp observations of relationships and friendships are as intimate and engrossing as Helen Garner's ac ...Show more
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
$55.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more
Literary Landscapes: Charting the Topography of Classic Literature by JOHN SUTHERLAND (ed)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere or any time - often the scenery , landscape or era is as central to the tale as any character- and just as easily recognised. Wh at adventures would Heidi have had without her mountain neighbours? W ould Jim Hawkins have experienced such an adventure had he not ...Show more
Near-Death Experiences ... and Others by Robert Gottlieb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writ ...Show more
Pen in Hand - Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries by Tim Parks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challeng ...Show more
You Are What You Read - A Practical Guide to Reading Well by Robert DiYanni
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Skills for Scholars Ser.
How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literature We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of ...Show more
Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by Writers by Phaidon Editors
$29.95 AUD
Category: Writing
Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new book Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by writers through the ages and across the globe, Every Day a Word Surprises Me is the ideal keepsake for rea ...Show more