Read Me - Ten Lessons for Writing Great Copy by Roger Horberry
$39.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
If you've ever struggled to craft a powerful message that really hits the spot, you'll know its harder than it looks. Wouldn't it be helpful to have an expert on hand to explain how the professionals really do it? Better still, how about a whole range of writers ready to pass on their trade secrets? Wel ...Show more
Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage by Oliver Kamm
$29.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with 'and'? We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver ...Show more
Clear and Concise: Become a Better Business Writer by Susan McKerihan
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
How well do you write? Good communication is a skill required by all professionals. Whether you're preparing reports, conducting reviews or simply writing emails, expressing your ideas clearly and persuasively is fundamental to your success in the workplace. Susan McKerihan has spent over twenty years ...Show more
Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair by Vanity Fair
$50.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
For the magazine’s centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair In honor of the 100th anniversary of Vanity Fair magazine, Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells celebrates the publication’s astonishing early catalogue of writers, with works by Dorothy Pa ...Show more
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by C. D. Rose
$29.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history's most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the wo ...Show more
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activ ...Show more
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris Kachka
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Mad Men for the literary world. Junot Diaz Farrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably the most influential publishing house of the modern era. Home to an unrivaled twenty-five Nobel Prize winners and generation-defining authors like T. S. Eliot, Flannery O Connor, Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Philip ...Show more
Shakespeare for Grown-ups - Everything You Need to Know About the Bard by Elizabeth Foley
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? If you've always felt a bit embarrassed at your precarious grasp on the plot of Othello, or you haven't a clue what a petard - as in 'hoist with his own petard' - actually is, then fear not, because this, at last, is the perfect guide to bring you up to speed. From t ...Show more
Once Upon a Time : A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
$22.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travell ...Show more
Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary by David Crystal
$34.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be prepared to learn words you have never heard before, find out fascinating facts behind everyday words, and be surprised at how lively and varied the English language can be. Published to cr ...Show more
In the Blink of an Eye - A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns o ...Show more
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
$19.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style, from the bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon. From classic poetry to pop lyrics and from the King James Bible to advertising slogans, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase ...Show more