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Japanese Literature : An Introduction for Western Readers by Donald Keene
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia by Georgia Richter; Deborah Hunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: ENGLISH
Georgia Richter and Deborah Hunn look at the business of becoming an author. In a friendly, informative and practical way they share all you need to know about inspiration and research, preparing to submit to a publisher, creating an author brand, legal, ethical and moral considerations, pitching and ef ...Show more
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall (ed)
$20.00 AUD
$45.00 (55% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Cliches, Cant & Management Jargon by Don Watson
$15.00 AUD
$32.95 (54% off)
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At last, the longed-for and much-requested companion volume to DEATH SENTENCE, Don Watson
A Dictionary of Australian English by Edward E. Morris
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO CLASSICAL LITERATURE by M C HOWATSON
$30.00 AUD
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The Artful Dickens - The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist by John Mullan
$27.99 AUD
Category: ENGLISH
Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens. From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters? What was Dickens's favourite way of killing his characters? When is a Dickens character ...Show more
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$14.99 AUD
Category: ENGLISH
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
$35.00 AUD
Category: ENGLISH
'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls ...Show more
Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
$34.99 AUD
Category: ENGLISH
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
THE MODERN LIBRARY : THE 200 BEST NOVELS IN ENGLISH SINCE 1950 by CARMEN CALLIL AND COLM TOIBIN
$20.00 AUD
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Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame by Robin Robertson (ed)
$15.00 AUD
$27.95 (46% off)
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A collection of stories from some of the world's greatest writers about their own public humiliation. Humiliation is not, of course, unique to writers. However, the world of letters does seem to offer a near-perfect micro-climate for embarrassment and shame. There is something about the conjunction of h ...Show more