History of the World Map by Map by DK
65.00 AUD
Category: History
Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history, told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action and ...Show more
Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate more effectively in the real world by Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink
32.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
We were all taught the fundamentals of writing well in school. But how do we write effectively in today's hyper-interactive world?When The Elements of Style and On Writing Well were published in 1959 and 1976, the internet hadn't been invented. Since then, there has been a radical transformation in how ...Show more
Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
24.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Welcome to Sotheran's, the oldest, most bonkers bookshop in the country, with its bizarre clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabelled keys, poisoned books, some things that aren't even books, and deeply eccentric staff. Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black.Some years ago, ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
22.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
With Pencils Poised - A History of Shorthand in Australia by Carmel Taylor
34.95 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
'Silently and inconspicuously, shorthand writers have been instrumental in recording, documenting and preserving oral history. Thoughts and spoken words can simply fly away without any hope of retrieval - the written word remains.' So begins this account of a skill that greatly enhanced media and busin ...Show more
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
24.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and be ...Show more
Handwritten Remarkable People on the Page by Lesley Smith
79.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to the present, individual lives and relationships a ...Show more
The Elements of Style, Illustrated by William Strunk, Jr. (Author) , E. B. White (Author) , Maira Kalman (Illustrated by)
32.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The book's mantra - make every word tell - is still on point. Whether seventeen or seventy, this much-loved classic, now in its fourth edition, will forever be the go-to g ...Show more
Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback by Andrew Nette
50.00 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognise ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
35.00 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
How to be an Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all by Inger Mewburn
29.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Welcome to the world of university academics, where the Academic Hunger Games, fuelled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality - a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life needn't be so grim. A veteran of the u ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author by Haruki Murakami
27.99 AUD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more