What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
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Category: Words and Writing
Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and be ...Show more
Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series by Carl Reinecke
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Category: Words and Writing
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at th ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: Canons Ser.
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wis ...Show more
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark! by Florence Hazrat
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Category: Words and Writing
Love it or hate it, the exclamation mark has been with us from Beowulf to the spam email - an enthusiastic history for language lovers!
Yes! No! but Wait... ! - The One Thing You Need to Know to Write a Novel by Tim Lott
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Category: Words and Writing
At the heart of writing - at the apex of storytelling - there is only one principle, and it winds like a golden thread across all the books and courses. But it gets lost in the ever-spreading panoply of detail that the creative writing industry relies on to keep its wheels turning. This book pulls out ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
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Category: Words and Writing
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gan ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
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Category: Words and 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
Why We Read by Various
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Category: Words and Writing
Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers.From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for ...Show more
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
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Category: Words and Writing
'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to . . . ' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongre ...Show more
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: A Touchstone book
With half a million copies in print, " How to Read a Book" is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a "living" classic that introduces and eluci ...Show more
Poetry by Jeffrey Wainwright
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: The Basics
Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any reader can understand and gain more pleasure fro ...Show more
Three Sheets to the Wind by Cynthia Barrett
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The origins of a remarkable number of everyday words and phrases are anchored in our seafaring past. Three Sheets to the Wind: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions is an entertaining compilation revealing the maritime roots of common English expressions. The original "slush fund" was the fatty s ...Show more