A Horse at Night by Amina Cain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
"A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book." --Ayşegül Savaş"I adore her work, and sensibili ...Show more
A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press by Michael Richards
$49.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
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
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Wellbeing by The School of Life
$49.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment. Books, however familiar, are amongst the strangest objects on the planet: little portals that open directly into the ideas, feelings, loves and sorrows of writers from all times and places. ...Show more
A Word for Every Day of the Year by Steven Poole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A weird and wonderful word and its meaning for every day of the year. Who knew that to dringle is to 'waste time in a lazy lingering manner'? Or that a sudden happy ending could be termed a eucotastrophe? Looking for an alternative word to 'bullshit'? Then try taradiddle.A Word for Every Day of the ...Show more
Americanon - An Unexpected U. S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
$49.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
"An elegant, meticulously-researched and eminently readable history of the books that define us as Americans. For history buffs and book-lovers alike, McHugh offers us a precious gift."--Jake Halpern, Pulitzer Prize Winner and New York Times Bestselling author "With her usual eye for detail and knack ...Show more
An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Wes Anderson, David Brendel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch- fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Lieb ...Show more
Angels and Saints - With a Guide to the Illustrations by Mary Wellesley by Eliot Weinberger; Anon (Notes by)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger's lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife.Threaded throughout Angels and Saints are the glorious illuminated grid p ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
$45.00 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | 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
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | 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
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea Di Robilant
$6.25 AUD
$24.99 (74% off)
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called "absolutely god-damned wonderful." A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a stri ...Show more
Banned Books by DK
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A compelling illustrated account of history's most famous banned written worksDiscover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published.Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is "acceptable" in published works hav ...Show more