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Fucking Apostrophes by Simon Griffin
$19.00 NZD
Category: Gifts
A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English Apostrophes are an f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly. Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers -- wont to insert and remov ...Show more
Writing Reverse Harem for Fun and Money by S. C. Green
$30.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
If you want to create the ultimate wish-fulfillment story where a strong, sassy heroine gets all the hot guys, check out this guide by Steff Green, a six-figure bestselling author.
How to Rock Self Publishinga Rage Against the Manuscript Guide by Steff Green
$37.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
Do you have a story you’re bursting to tell the world? Are you sick of being rejected by the publishing establishment? Do you want to inject a little punk rock, DIY ethos into your indie author career? In How to Rock Self-Publishing, bestselling indie author and publishing coach Steff Green shows ...Show more
Rebel Without a Clause by Susan Butler
$30.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
Great Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Notebooks, and Letters Explored and Explained by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Great Diariestraces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It brings together historical and literary diaries, artists' ...Show more
Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$38.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection.In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists ...Show more
Cult Writers by Ian Haydn Smith; Kristelle Rodeia (Illustrator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
In Cult Writers Ian Haydn Smith introduces 50 novelists deserving of a cult status. The literary genres and subjects explored within these writers’ pages are rich and diverse – acting as mirrors of their genius minds: from Irvine Welsh’s gritty Edinburgh streets, to Ken Kesey’s drug-fuelled madness; fro ...Show more
The Book Lover's Quiz Book by Gary Wigglesworth
$35.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
'Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm's bookworm' Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines, Question Time and many more This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover's Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary's live quizzes, at ...Show more
Word to the Wise - Untangling the Mix-Ups, Misuse and Myths of Language by Mark Broatch
$12.00 NZD
$30.00 (60% off)
Category: Writing & Reading
Even the best wordsmiths can find themselves tripping over words that are commonly misused, mixed up or misspelled. Most of us have suffered the embarrassment of suddenly discovering that they have been using or spelling a word wrong for years, or, in some cases, their entire life. This useful reference ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$31.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
A long and intimate relationship with reading has taught acclaimed writer Tegan Bennett Daylight that - in life as in books - the delight is in the details. Tegan Bennett Daylight has led a life in books - as a writer, a teacher and a critic, but first and foremost as a reader. Reading has been her ins ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg; Julia Cameron (Foreword by)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Writing & Reading
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it i ...Show more