Murnane by Emmett Stinson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A window into the writing of one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, Gerald MurnaneGerald Murnane is one of Australia's most celebrated authors whose experimental and deeply idiosyncratic style has attracted rave reviews, including profiles in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Murna ...Show more
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
$17.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Welcome to Sotheran's, the oldest, most bonkers bookshop in the country, with its bizarre clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books, some things that aren't even books, and deeply eccentric staff. Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black.Some years ago, ...Show more
Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together by Germaine Leece, Sonya Tsakalakis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
It's an old cliché that books 'transport you'; but as any avid reader will tell you, there's far more to them than that. Alongside comfort and retreat, books offer insight into ourselves and others; they tell us how the world is, was or might be; they are windows into other worlds, whose meanings resona ...Show more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
‘Masterly.’ Observer ‘Wonderful, joyous.’ Maggie O'Farrell‘Frankly brilliant.’ Sunday Times‘Unmissable.’ Simon Jenkins ‘Every page sparkles.’ Claire Tomalin ‘A triumph.’ Matt Haig ‘Stylish, scholarly and gripping.’ Rose Tremain John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disas ...Show more
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body by Colin Salter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
The Anatomists Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the anatomical publications that have informed medicine over six centuries. The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge an ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
$55.00 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Ar ...Show more
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel
$80.00 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them ...Show more
Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers by Julia Cameron
$39.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The essential guide to writing by the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron Legendary author of The Artist's Way Julia Cameron has pioneered the field of creative recovery, inspiring millions of people around the world to discover their true creative selves. Now in Write for Life, the 'Queen of Creativity' ...Show more
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Lucy Scholes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedom ...Show more