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
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
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
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. With subtlety and emotional immediacy. Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus ...Show more
Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers by Julia Cameron
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing
The essential guide to writing by the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron Legendary author of The Artist's Way Julia Cameron has pioneered the field of creative recovery, inspiring millions of people around the world to discover their true creative selves. Now in Write for Life, the 'Queen of Creativity' ...Show more
Writing Coach in a Box by Alan Anderson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing
What should you look for when you're re-reading a draft? What are the most common mistakes first-time authors make? How can you inject excitement into flat prose? How do you make readers root for your protagonist? What verbs should you avoid, and which must you use? Why should you mix long and short sen ...Show more
100 Years: Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life by Joshua Prager; Milton Glaser
$27.95 AUD
Category: Writing
This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, the great sequence of life reveals itself--the wonders and confinements of childhood, the emancipations and frustrations of adolescence, the empowerm ...Show more