A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Smith, Daniel
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: A Short History of the World
Discover the power of the book through fifty of the most influential texts ever written from around the world and throughout time. From ancient game-changers like the Epic of Gilgamesh, through sacred texts and works of philosophical rumination by the likes of Confucius and Plato, via scientific treati ...Show more
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'The bookiest book about books you'll ever read - I loved it' Lucy Mangan'Truly delightful...I couldn't have had more fun' Benjamin Dreyer'Very funny, erudite and profound. A delight!' Nina Stibbe This is the outside story of books. From blurbs to titles, quotes to (checks jacket) cute animal designs ...Show more
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
$24.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and be ...Show more
The Ten Rules of Reporting: Journalism for the Community by Alan Sunderland
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
An essential guide for reporters and aspiring reporters: the former editorial director of the ABC shares the secrets of good reporting from his life-long career in journalism. Journalism is changing. The demand for information about the world we live in has never been greater. But those charged with o ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Cannon Fire: A Life in Print by Michael Cannon
$40.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The froth and the bubble and the standing like stoneMichael Cannon is best known as the author of landmark and popular works of Australian history, including The Land Boomers (1966), and as the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria. But Cannon, the child and grandchild of important figures i ...Show more
Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists: A Sparkling Miscellany of Literary Lists by Henry Eliot
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A sparkling miscellany of literary triviaWho had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compil ...Show more
A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press by Michael Richards
$50.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press is an account of a passion: that of a publisher and the books he made for himself and his friends, keeping alive craft traditions that were threatened by unrelenting change.‘Printing is like religion’, Alec Bolton once said. ‘We live in sin, but with the hope of per ...Show more
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd (Edited by) , Enrico Terrinoni (Edited by) , Catherine Wilsdon (Edited by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings the ...Show more
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater' A delicious combination of critical thought and passionate personal experience.' - Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep Romantic love was ...Show more
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times 'The best book on the craft of storytelling I've ever read' Matt Haig 'Rarely has a book engrossed me more, and forced me to question everything I've ever read, seen or written. A masterpiece' Adam Rutherford ...Show more
Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it.Amanda Lohrey is a fearless and idiosyncratic writer whose award-winning career spans four decades. Her work is experimental, political, intimate and compelling. Lo ...Show more