Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z by David Sacks
$30.99 AUD
Category: Literature
David Sacks has embarked on a fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet-and into cultural history-in" Letter Perfect." Clearly explaining the letters as symbols of precise sounds of speech, the book begins with the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions (circa 1800 b.c.), recently discovered ...Show more
Syllabus : Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry's pioneering, life-changing workshopThe award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, B ...Show more
The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Princeton Classics
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, orig ...Show more
Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition) by Jackie Huggins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays. The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie Huggins. These essays, speeches and interviews com ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"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
The Writer's Creative Workbook - Finding Your Voice, Embracing the Page by Joy Kenward
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The Writer's Creative Workbook is a practical and insightful guide into the joyful craft of mindful writing. Focusing on the transformative process of writing and conscious creativity, this beautifully illustrated part-manual, part-journal explores the holistic value of writing for writing's sake. Aut ...Show more
A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars, and Interviews of Anais Nin by Evelyn J. Hinz
$37.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In this book Anais Nin speaks with warmth and urgency on those themes which have always been closest to her: relationships, creativity, the struggle for wholeness, the unveiling of woman, the artist as magician, women reconstructing the world, moving from the dream outward, and experiencing our lives to ...Show more
The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words by Peter E. Meltzer
$38.99 AUD
Category: Literature
This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word-whether it's protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous-in co ...Show more
Letters of Note: Space by USHER, SHAUN
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with space at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Lines for Birds by Barry Hill
$59.95 AUD
Category: Literature
They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. Sometimes, as the painter says, its almost as if I am looking at the earth with a birds eye view the birds suggest new ways of telling stories about the earth. T ...Show more