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Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson by Brenda Niall
$34.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
Four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman. Friends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of E ...Show more
Release the Bats The Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out of It by D. B. C. Pierre
$19.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC Pierre reveals everything he learned the hard way. ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
$19.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you live)." ...Show more
Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
$19.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
"Description: No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore."Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes,"than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not exp ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
English in Australia and New Zealandan introduction to its history, structure and use by Kate Burridge
$85.41 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
Text for students of English or linguistics, introducing theoretical and methodological issues in modern linguistic study. Gives an overview of the structure and history of the English language, emphasising Australia and New Zealand. Uses a synchronic and diachronic approach drawing on many different tr ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
$27.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
'Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and penc ...Show more
On Beverley Farmer - Writers on Writers by Josephine Rowe
$17.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
Beverley Farmer's novels and short stories focus on loss, migration and homecoming. In this beautifully hewn essay, fellow novelist and short-story writer Josephine Rowe finds a kindred spirit and argues for a celebration and reclamation of this long-neglected Australian writer. In the Writers on Write ...Show more
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living by Manjula Martin
$24.99 AUD
Category: ON WRITING
In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit y ...Show more
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