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Between You and Me - Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$22.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
The most irreverent and enjoyable book on language since Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding the New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us, in a charming language book as ...Show more
What is English?: and Why Should We Care? by Tim William Machan
$38.95 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for defini ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
The Art of Letter Writing
$23.95 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
'The Art of Letter Writing' gives over fifty examples of the perfect letter for any occasion. Unsure how to break off an engagement, accept an invitation to a country house weekend, complain about a courier or write to a countess? This book contains numerous elegant and nuanced examples covering every p ...Show more
Penguin Pocket Rhyming Dictionary by Rosalind Fergusson
$16.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
Need a rhyme but can't spare the time? Want to make your jingles tingle or crack the code to the ode? Penguin Pocket Rhyming Dictionary is an indispensable companion for anyone who writes verse. Clearly arranged and easy to use, it offers an astonishingly wide range of rhymes for words, from the common ...Show more
Legends of Literature: The Best Articles, Interviews, and Essays from the Archives of Writer's Digest Magazine by Phillip Sexton
$29.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
Writer's Digest magazine has been published on an uninterrupted basis for more than 85 years. Circulation currently tops 120,000. No other book on the market captures such an interesting spectrum of the 20th century literary scene. And, in fact, there's no other publisher that could provide it. Includes ...Show more
Aussie Slang Down Under by Diane McInnes
$9.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
This book is chockers with colourful Australian slang. This unique dialect is widely spoken across Australia and manifests experiences from the country's broad history. From borrowing Aboriginal words, through convict roots, the gold rush and bush ranging years to the First World War, these words have e ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
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
Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell by James Andrew Taylor
$47.95 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrot ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$39.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once reso ...Show more
Latest Readings (HB) by Clive James
$27.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
In 2010 Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write." James is the award-winni ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more