The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund WhiteEdmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read. For White, each momentous occasion came with books to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up ...Show more
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
An enthralling collection of nonfiction pieces on myriad topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories to comics, films, and literature--observed in award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style. As Neil explains, "This book is n ...Show more
The Way of the Fearless Writer: Ancient Eastern Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life by Beth Kempton
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A new, mindful approach to the writing lifeIn a radical departure from standard advice about creative success, effort, critique, and competition, The Way of the Fearless Writer will show you that there is another way to thrive--a writing path of ease, trust, wonder, and joy.You are invited to embark on ...Show more
The Word - On Translation of the Bible by John Barton
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
An exhilarating exploration of the medium through which almost everyone has interacted with scripture, by the author of the bestselling A History of the Bible The Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the source of fundamental truths inscribed in words that are exact and sacred. For much of J ...Show more
The World According To Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbre ...Show more
The Writer Laid Bare: Emotional Honesty in a Writer’s Art, Craft and Life by Lee Kofman
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Inspired by her popular writing courses, Lee also offers practical advice on drafts, edits and how to achieve a life/writing balance. How combining her writing with motherhood led her to recognise that ‘ the pram in the hall’ issue is real. Plus the ultimate reading list of books you really should ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
The Writing Book: A Practical Guide for Fiction Writers by Kate Grenville
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
From the acclaimed author of The Secret River, a completely practical workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for writers or aspiring writers to get started and keep going Full of ideas and examples to get pen to paper or fingers on the keyboard, this guidedoesn't just talk about how to ...Show more
The Written World: How Literature Shaped History by Martin Puchner
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The true story of literature -- of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction by Italo Calvino
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
A true celebration of literature in its many forms, The Written World and the Unwritten Worldbrings together essays, articles, interviews, forewords and notes from the inimitable mind of Italo Calvino. The fate of the novel, reading and translation are just some of the subjects examined in this remarkab ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, t ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more