Open Secrets: Essays on the Writing Life by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The lives of writers are a topic of perennial fascination to readers – and indeed to other writers. And yet the writer at work is often a mythologised figure, distant from the cares of the day. In Open Secrets, Australian writers reflect upon the material conditions that give rise to their writing pract ...Show more
Papyrus - The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity's obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages - from one of Spain's most celebrated authors. Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from th ...Show more
Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution by Stuart Kells
$39.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A ground-breaking counter-history of Penguin Books - both amusing and and with a strong new Australian aspect. How did the three Lane brothers enter publishing and build Penguin into a global powerhouse? As this new book shows, their innovation and the creative opposition among them would prove to be t ...Show more
Personal Writings - Albert Camus by Albert Camus; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This volume contains some of Camus's most personal and lyrical writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus's first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a work ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
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
Portable Magic - A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow ...Show more
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
An excitingly revisionist history of bibliophilia, from the celebrated author of This is Shakespeare 'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The ...Show more
Reading Like An Australian Writer by Belinda Castles (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
This is an ode, a love letter, to the magic of reading. To the spark that's set off when the reader thinks ... I can do this too. Here, twenty-six writers take us through these moments of revelation through the dog-eared pages of their favourite Australian books. These writers come together to draw kno ...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
Ready, Set, Memoir! - The Essential Guide to Telling Your Story by Lindsey Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
This authoritative and accessible workbook guides you through the memoir writing process so you can tell your own story with confidence Ready, Set, Memoir is full of helpful lists, exercises, inspiring quotes from famous memoirists, advice, lessons, and humor to help walk you through the writing p ...Show more
Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
$65.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, ...Show more