The Novel Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel, Memoir or Biography by Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
The no-drama novel writing method behind Graeme Simsion's global bestsellersSave the drama for the story.'Writing is easy- all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' Variously attributed to Thomas Wolfe, Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway, the quote p ...Show more
Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition (HB) by Macquarie Dictionary
$64.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
The Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition provides an up-to-date account of Australian English, with wide coverage to meet the needs of the general dictionary user. Based on the comprehensive Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition, this volume includes words and meanings which are peculiar to our varie ...Show more
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
Why do we want to write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the terror that no-one will care or that we will get in trouble? How do we identify and overcome everything that gets in our way so we can start making work?Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink sho ...Show more
What's Wrong? Making Sense of Nonsense by Geoffrey Gibson; Chris Wallace-Crabbe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
Around the world, people have witnessed a decline in thinking and language. 'Social media' has maimed language and manners; it has brought us the violent madness of conspiracy. Twisted media are infected. In Australia, our schools have not kept up. People ignorant of both logic and grammar are unleashe ...Show more
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
Here's what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. "Save the Cat" is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and you ...Show more
Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition by Macquarie Dictionary
$140.00 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
The Macquarie Dictionary is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. An up-to-date account of our variety of English, it not only includes words and senses peculiar to Australian English, but also those common to the whole English-speaking world. The Ninth ...Show more
Writing with Pleasure by Helen Sword
$44.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing | Series: Skills for Scholars Ser.
An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By ...Show more
Writing with Style - The Economist Guide by Lane Greene
$22.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
A brand new take on how to write with style - from The Economist's language columnist, Lane Greene
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
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 Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe by Alex Bellos
$24.99 AUD
Category: Words and Writing
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the sa ...Show more
Catching the Light by Joy Harjo
$26.95 AUD
Category: Words and Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Harjo writes as if the creative journey has been the destination all along."--Kirkus Reviews In this lyrical meditatio ...Show more