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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
Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James (Abridged by)
$33.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were--and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columni ...Show more
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature by Peter Pierce
$85.00 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature is the most comprehensive volume ever written on Australia's national literature. This authoritative guide spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, encompassing indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the P ...Show more
The Triumph of Typography : Culture. Communication. New Media by Henk Hoeks
$145.00 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
Typography rules the world, but in what way does a typographical text still form the fundamentals of public life in an era of digitalism and interactivity? In The Triumph of Typography a number of professionals investigate the cultural revolution caused by new media and digitalisation. With contribution ...Show more
Horizontal Lightning by Marty Branagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
$35.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' tackles a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task, having researched, taught and written on every area of literature. His infectious passion for ...Show more
The Writing Life by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: writing poetry literature
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more