How to Tell a Story by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The MothYou are a multitude of stories. Every joy and heartbreak, every disappointment and dizzying high, has the makings of an u ...Show more
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle’s Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of g ...Show more
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gaun ...Show more
How to Write Like a Writer - A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice by Thomas C. Foster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide. Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teachi ...Show more
How to Write an Impressive CV & Cover LetterA Comprehensive Guide for the UK Job Seeker by Tracey Whitmore
$14.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Your CV and cover letter are your first communication with a prospective employer. As the job market is becoming increasingly competitive, making the right first impression has never been more important. If you compromise on the quality of your CV and cover letter, and you reduce your chances of winning ...Show more
How to be Well Read by John Sutherland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A guide to the best novels ever written, and why they matter In the course of over 500 wittily informative pieces, John Sutherland gives us his own take on the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. It is the perfect reading list for e ...Show more
How to be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia by Georgia Richter, Deborah Hunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn look at the business of becoming an author. In a friendly, informative and practical way they share all you need to know about inspiration and research, preparing to submit to a publisher, creating an author brand, legal, ethical and moral considerations, pitching and ef ...Show more
Howdunit: a Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.Ninety crime writers from the world's oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and insights into su ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
$17.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: I Used to Know That ... Ser.
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post______________________The huge variety of colourful phrases contained in the English language are notoriously varied and, often, notably odd. From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocr ...Show more
Hyphens and Hashtags - the Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard by Claire Cock-starkey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Reference
In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate to the punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the edges of our keyboard. Without these symbols, it would be impossible to convey meaning--our words would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers. ...Show more
Inadvertent: Why I Write by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the ...Show more
Indigenous Australia For Dummies by Larissa Behrendt
$39.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Foreward Stan Grant
A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous pe ...Show more