On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Inspired by Jami Attenberg's wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer's guide features encouraging essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer, and Carmen Maria Machado. In 2018, novelist ...Show more
Before And After The Book Deal A Writer'S Guide To Finishing Publishing Promoting And Surviving Your First Book by Maum Courtney
$36.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature by Dirk Hulle, Mark Nixon
$79.99 AUD
Category: Writing
An illumination of writing's mysteries through examining the words and ideas that were edited out of renowned novels, poems, and plays. Imagine looking over your favorite author's shoulder and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is t ...Show more
Always Take Notes: Advice from the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five ...Show more
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
One of the Guardian's Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend. The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to hide her identity in the hope that readers would focus on her body of work. But in this volume, she in ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Searching for the Secret Riveris the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman - transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life - who later became a wealthy man and built his colonia ...Show more
Solutions for Writers by Sol Stein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Practical, instantly usable techniques and advice for writers of fiction and non-fiction from master editor Sol Stein
The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl by Mignon Fogarty
$36.99 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Quick and Dirty Tips Ser.
One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, <i>Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing</i>, hit the <i>New York Times</i> b ...Show more
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing
"The Little Red Writing Book" is a book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. Enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Win ...Show more