Inside Story: The Wonderful World of Writing, Illustrating and Publishing Children's Books by SOPHIE MASSON
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Inside Story is a fabulous showcase of the richness and diversity of contemporary Australian children's books. An attractive full-colour production, it is packed with tips, advice, illuminating quotes and anecdotes. The stellar list of contributors includes writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, ag ...Show more
Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century by Elise Bohan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we’re hurtling towards a superhuman future – or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We’ll ne ...Show more
The Writer's Journey - 25th Anniversary Edition - Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler
$50.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Originally an influential memo Vogler wrote for Walt Disney Animation executives regarding The Lion King, The Writer's Journey details a twelve-stage, myth-inspired method that has galvanized Hollywood's treatment of cinematic storytelling. A format that once seldom deviated beyond a traditional three-a ...Show more
An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
"A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian "Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse p ...Show more
Run Towards the Danger - Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
$49.95 AUD
Category: Essays
*Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV Club* Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I hav ...Show more
S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346) by S. J. Perelman; Adam Gopnik (Editor)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Essays
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on Around the World in Eighty. He remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humour. Author and New Yorker st ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A behind-the-scenes tour for booklovers everywhere.
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished And Selected Writings by Robert M Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought--"quality"--featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works."The ultimate goal in the pursuit of e ...Show more
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
$30.00 AUD
Category: Climate
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx – whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth – comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet. A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings ...Show more
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Lives of Australian Mammals by Jack Ashby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The platypus is an amazing animal – A mammal that lays eggs, produces venom and detects electricity. From the moment of its discovery, it has played a disruptive role in the narrative of evolution, and perhaps due to this rocky start, or to the lasting legacy of colonialism, most of us still know very l ...Show more
Hard Knocks by Fiona Scott-Norman (editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Hard Knocks is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who had a toughtime at school - either being bullied, not fitting in, or facing other adversities.The concept for the book is simple: many of the most popular Australians today were outsiders when they ...Show more