A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Credo: Selected Essays by Imants Tillers
$26.95 AUD
Category: Writing
Credo brings together essays from different stages in Imants Tillers’ career, from ‘Locality Fails’ to ‘Metafisica Australe’ and ‘Journey to Nowhere’, and closes with an essay written especially for the collection, ‘The Sources’, on the artists and writers he has drawn on in his art. These essays expres ...Show more
Writing with Pleasure by Helen Sword
$44.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Skills for Scholars Ser.
An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By ...Show more
How to Tell a Story by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers
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Category: Writing
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The MothYou are a multitude of stories. Every joy and heartbreak, every disappointment and dizzying high, has the makings of an u ...Show more
Why Read: Selected Writings, 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
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Category: Writing
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature. From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by the Guardian, Will Self's Why ...Show more
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Writing
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about l ...Show more
Mother Tongue - The English Language by Bill Bryson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Popular Penguins
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), t ...Show more
On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers by Richard Cooke
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Category: Writing | Series: Writers on Writing
Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson's relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters.In the Writer ...Show more
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works by Alexandra Aikhenvald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language. Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost ...Show more
Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics and Revolution by David Deutschmann
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Category: Writing
Selected writings--speeches, essays, and letters--by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.Widely revered as a true revolutionary, this collection of writings from Ernesto "Che" Guevara highlight his principled politics and praxis in the fight a ...Show more
A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
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Category: Writing
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet cha ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Writing
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more