Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick considers the history of women and literature. She imagines the lives of the Brontes, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the s ...Show more
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Letters to a Young...
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, w ...Show more
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
Always Take Notes: Advice from the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five ...Show more
Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life -- for better and ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
On Connection by Kae Tempest
$14.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection. Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how an ...Show more
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire by Tea Uglow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Over 40 empowering speeches celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day. Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. A sister title to Great Women's Sp ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$17.99 AUD
Category: 2022 04 April New Release
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 by Gideon Haigh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Few journalists exemplify the creed 'without fear or favour'; like Gideon Haigh. Shelf Life selects from twenty-one years of writing on myriad subjects by one of our clearest thinkers, sharpest stylists and most curious journalists. Architecture and airline food. Depression and doodling. Goya and Gross ...Show more
Well Hello: Meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3 by Leigh Sales
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
From the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 comes a smart, hilarious and heartfelt book about friendship, the vagaries of life and culture, and everything in between. In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started a rambling conversation tha ...Show more