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A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. 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 char ...Show more
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami by David Karashima
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A rare look inside the making of the "Murakami Industry"--and a thought-provoking exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of global literary culture. Thirty years ago, when Haru ...Show more
Literary Lion Tamers: Book Editors Who Made Publishing History by Craig Munro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'Writers, their friends, enemies, editors, and publishers began to materialise out of the library's archive boxes, and I found myself setting off in search of these elusive, eccentric, and often quarrelsome characters.' In this unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography, and literary detective w ...Show more
How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia by Georgia Richter; Deborah Hunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn look at the business of becoming an author. In a friendly, informative and practical way they share all you need to know about inspiration and research, preparing to submit to a publisher, creating an author brand, legal, ethical and moral considerations, pitching and ef ...Show more
Genius and Ink - Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Fors ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
The Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski; John Maeda (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
The stages of the creative process--from "unlearning" to beginning again--seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artis ...Show more
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: E. H. Gombrich Lecture Ser.
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imagination Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having small Latin and less Greek. But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. ...Show more
Aussie Slang by Lolla Stewart
$17.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The ever popular and thoroughly entertaining, Aussie Slang Dictionary (13th edition), is back to help you decipher and speak the true local language. Full of dazzling definitions from true-blue Aussies, you'll never be lost for words with this collection of colourful sayings. From 'aerial ping-pong' (A ...Show more
The Writer's Journey - 25th Anniversary Edition - Mythic Structure for Writers - Library Edition by Christopher Vogler
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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
Word Perfect: Curious Coinages and Etymological First Aid For Every Day of the Year by Susie Dent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' Pam Ayres 'Susie Dent is a national treasure' Richard Osman Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner. From Turning a Blind ...Show more
Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures by Claudia L Johnson (Princeton?University, USA Princeton University Princeton?University, USA Princeton?University, USA Princeton?University, USA Princeton?University, USA Princeton?University, USA Princeton?University, USA Princeton?University, USA Princeton?University, USA)
$47.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Jane Austen completed only six novels, but enduring passion for the author and her works has driven fans to read these books repeatedly, in book clubs or solo, while also inspiring countless film adaptations, sequels, and even spoofs involving zombies and sea monsters. Austen's lasting appeal to both po ...Show more