Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Inspired meditations on storytelling from one of the worlds finest, most accomplished and adored writers. Pullman is a master of fiction and shares his thoughts on the origin of his own stories, the craft of writing and the storytellers who have meant the most to him. The art of storytelling is everywhe ...Show more
Dark Archives - A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
$44.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
There are books out there, some shelved unwittingly next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom, a medical librarian and a cofounder of the Death Salon, seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind this a ...Show more
Dear Mum by Samuel Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
If you could tell your mum anything, what would it be? Samuel Johnson, Amanda Keller, Vika & Linda Bull, Guy Pearce, Elizabeth Tan, Rebecca Gibney, Peter Helliar, Clare Wright, Hilde Hinton, Gillian O'Shaughnessy, Adam Spencer, Brooke Davis, Lawrence Mooney, Patti Newton, Shane Jacobson, Julie Koh, ...Show more
Do You Read Me? - Bookstores Around the World by Marianne Julia Strauss
$99.50 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Lose yourself in the pages of this showcase of some of the most beautiful, innovative, and successful bookshops around the world. Bookshops are powerful places with the -freedom to deep-dive into their niche, from -cooking to cartoons, architecture to anarchy. - Do you read me? reconsiders the bookshop ...Show more
Down in the Valley - A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
$7.50 AUD
$29.99 (74% off)
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher. Draft No. 4is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most ...Show more
Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
''How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperilled world?'' In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reportin ...Show more
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition by Benjamin Dreyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don't - Dreyer's English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-no ...Show more
Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists: A Sparkling Miscellany of Literary Lists by Henry Eliot
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A sparkling miscellany of literary triviaWho had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compil ...Show more
Emigres - French Words That Turned English by Richard Scholar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases-such as a la mode, ennui, naivete and caprice-lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise elude the language. Richard Scholar examines the continuing history of untranslated ...Show more
Everything, All At Once by Various
$32.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Identity – who are you? Who or what do you identify with? What does that even mean? In a world that likes to paint us as black or white we’re often searching for an opportunity to fit in.This anthology features 30 of Australia’s best writers under 30 exploring the theme identity – searching for unique p ...Show more
Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broade ...Show more