On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
L'Art De La Simplicite by Dominique Loreau; Louise Lalaurie (Translator)
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
Discover the magic of simplicity in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English. Dominque Loreau is the master in the art of de-cluttering and simplifying. Now her groundbreakingL'art de la Simplicité,a huge bestseller in her native France, is translated into English for the ...Show more
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be d ...Show more
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old argume ...Show more
Words That Go Ping: The Ridiculously Wonderful World of Onomatopoeia by Barbara Lasserre
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Barbara Lasserre brings the neglected world of onomatopoeia to life in this witty little gem of a book which will delight language lovers.
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . .__________ Why, like, does everyone keep saying 'like'? Why do apostrophe's keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases - and vice versa? Is it 'may be' or 'maybe'? Should it be ...Show more
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way - The Writing Life by Charles Bukowski; David Stephen Calonne (Introduction by)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profess ...Show more
The Power of Now - a guide to spiritual enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
The Power of Now is a guide to spiritual awakening from a man who is emerging as one of this generation's clearest, most inspiring teachers on the subject. Eckhart Tolle is not aligned with any particular religion but does what all the great masters have done: shows that the way, the truth, and the ligh ...Show more
Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
*New York Times Bestseller *One of NPR's Best Books of 2017A wise and entertaining guide to writing English the proper way by one of the greatest newspaper editors of our time. Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry ...Show more
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
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Category: Science & Nature
This young man's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he is unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for ma ...Show more
Steal Like an Artist 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (Artist)
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Austin Kleon Ser.
You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illu ...Show more
Four-legged Therapy How Fur, scales and feathers Can Make Life Worth Living by DEPARTMENT STORE FOR THE MIND
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Category: Science & Nature
A WORDLESS LISTENER, A REASON TO GO OUTSIDE, AN INTENSE SURGE OF JOY... What healthy habits can we learn from our fluffy, scaly and, let's face it, stinky companions? Is it just the companionship and love or is there more to it? Discover the myriad ways in which our pets and other animals can help us ...Show more