Short Stories in French for Intermediate Learners by Olly Richards
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Foreign Language Graded Ser.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of French.Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. ...Show more
Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners - Read for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Italian the Fun Way! by Olly Richards
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Foreign Language Graded Reader Ser.
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too " - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners has been written ...Show more
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Inspired meditations on storytelling from one of the worlds finest, most accomplished and adored writers. Pullman is a master of fiction and shares his thoughts on the origin of his own stories, the craft of writing and the storytellers who have meant the most to him. The art of storytelling is everywhe ...Show more
Tales of Villa Diodati: The Origins of Iconic Science Fiction and Gothic Horror by VARIOUS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
In 1816, also known as The Year without a Summer, a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friend ...Show more
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie Dent
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser.
Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language.Who was SWEET FANNY ADAMS?What's the dramatic true story ...Show more
Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp
$41.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to Twi ...Show more
Yes! No! but Wait... ! - The One Thing You Need to Know to Write a Novel by Tim Lott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
At the heart of writing - at the apex of storytelling - there is only one principle, and it winds like a golden thread across all the books and courses. But it gets lost in the ever-spreading panoply of detail that the creative writing industry relies on to keep its wheels turning. This book pulls out ...Show more
Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading by Bijal Shah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
In Bibliotherapy, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah draws on her personal experience, work with clients and research to explore the healing power of reading. From the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - and the important role played by great writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot ...Show more
Yeah, Nah!: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are by William McInnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Join bestselling Australian storyteller William McInnes as he reflects on Australia's way of life and gives us his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. Whether we are bunging it on or behaving like a drongo, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation that helps us. Our lin ...Show more
Writely or Wrongly: An Unstuffy Guide to Language Stuff by Joanne Anderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a book on said subject that is humourlessly preoccupied with rules (almost all of us). Author Joanne Anderson has expanded on the popular tips s ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis
$26.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. The Waste Land is the greatest poem of the age. But a century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's masterpiece remains a work of comparative mystery. In this gripping account, award-winning biogra ...Show more