Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality by Shirleene Robinson, Alex Greenwich
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. From its tentative origins in 2004, through to a groundswell of public support, everyday people contribut ...Show more
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voic ...Show more
Why I Write? - The Early Prose from 1945 To 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Modern Czech Classics Ser.
"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity." --New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership." --Kirkus Reviews This collection of the earliest prose by one ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you live)." ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
Shakespeare On The Double! Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Shakespeare on the Double!
"For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. "Romeo and Juliet" is the tragic story of "star-crossed lovers" from feuding families. Complete with a masquerade ball, a duel, a secret marriage, a sleeping potion, and pushy parents, the play packs a lot of action and emotion into f ...Show more
Shakespeare On The Double! Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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Category: Literary Studies
End your struggle with the Bard's prose and indulge in a romantic comedy that's better than a soap opera. Shakespeare on the Double! Twelfth Night includes an easy-to-understand modern English translation alongside the original Shakespearian text so that you can read only the translation, read the trans ...Show more
Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2018 by Rachel Randall
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Young People and the Arts: An agenda for change by Sue Giles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Expectations around theatre for young people are too prescribed today. Adults have long-held views on what works are appropriate and yet among all this concern for young people's creativity, it is not acknowledged as art. For the young people who work in the sector, the word `value' is clouded by preced ...Show more
The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing - A Practical Guide to Selling Your Pitches, Crafting Strong Articles, and Earning More Bylines by Kerrie Flanagan; Angela Mackintosh (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Your Essential Reference for Writing for Magazines In The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing, accomplished freelance writer, author, and instructor Kerrie Flanagan demystifies the idea that writing for magazines is a difficult process meant only for those with journalism degrees. Drawing ...Show more
Writing Without Rules - How to Write and Sell a Novel Without Guidelines, Experts, or (Occasionally) Pants by Jeffrey Somers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Stop What You're Doing and Write Yes, You; Write Most writing guides imply--or outright state--that there's a fixed, specific formula or list of rules you must follow to achieve writing and publishing success. And all of them are phonies. Well, not completely. There are real, applicable techniques and ...Show more