Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$39.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Why do we want to write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the terror that no-one will care or that we will get in trouble? How do we identify and overcome everything that gets in our way so we can start making work?Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink sho ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$24.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
Learning Samoan Through Bathtime by Deborah Sanerivi and Oka Sanerivi; translators Tusa and Norrah Tusa
$22.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Learning Samoan through bathtime' follows the routine of a mother bathing her two children following some fun in the mud. The book uses simple, repetitive sentences in both Samoan and English and identifies the body parts. This book is designed to help support learning the basics of the Samoan language ...Show more
Everyone Has What It Takes - A Writer's Guide to the End of Self-Doubt by William Kenower
$38.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
An insightful guide for any writer who's ever wondered if they're talented, creative, lovable, or worthy enough. Spoiler alert: You are. As hard as the craft of writing is, the greatest challenges writers face are often within ourselves. Comparison, self-doubt, isolation, and other internal struggles ca ...Show more
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes: The Letters, Diaries and Writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte by Juliet Gardiner
$34.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes is the story both of the real world of the Brontes at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using their own wo ...Show more
The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention - A Six Week Artist's Way Programme by Julia Cameron
$32.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
A groundbreaking new book about listening to ourselves, to others and to the world from the internationally bestselling 'queen of change', Julia Cameron. From the bestselling author of The Artist's Way comes a new, transformative guide to deeper, more profound listening and creativity. Over six weeks, ...Show more
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.
The Writer's Library - The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl; Jeff Schwager
$59.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful colle ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition by Benjamin Dreyer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don't - Dreyer's English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-no ...Show more
Semicolon - How a Misunderstood Punctuation Mark Can Improve Your Writing, Enrich Your Reading and Even Change Your Life by Cecelia Watson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules. Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began teaching. And ...Show more
Words in Progress by DK
$24.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Let your ink and your imagination flow with this write-in journal. From first-time writers to experienced authors, blank-page syndrome can hit anyone at any time. Whether you want to write screenplays, novels, a memoir, or poetry, these inspiring and thought-provoking prompts will help you to let go, ...Show more