Love Writing: How to Make Money Writing Romantic or Erotic Fiction by MOORCROFT SUE
24.99 NZD
Category: Language
Love sells and sex sells and you can earn your living writing about them for novels, novellas and short stories as well as serials for magazines, anthologies and websites. This book holds the secrets of how to achieve success.
Successful Novel Plotting by SAUNDERS JEAN
24.99 NZD
Category: Language
What is it about a good book that hooks the reader and makes them want more? A good plot. Every best-selling author from Agatha Christie to Terry Pratchett knows the importance of a strong story. But for the budding author it can be daunting and even confusing. How do you turn that seed of an idea into ...Show more
The Ants Are My Friends by Martin Toseland
18.99 NZD
Category: Language
Linguistic mistakes. We all make them. And if your name is George W Bush or Jade Goody, you might make them more often than others. In THE ANTS ARE MY FRIENDS (delightfully misheard from Bob Dylan's 'Blowing in the Wind') Martin Toseland has collected the very best (and very worst) linguistic gifts of t ...Show more
Granta 103 The Rise of the British Jihad by Jason Cowley (ed)
35.00 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
The One True God, Allah At present, in Britain, there are at least 200 indigenous active terrorist cells being monitored by the Security Service MI5, with 4,000 British Muslims considered to be a threat to national security. How did we arrive at this state of affairs? A remarkable investigation by Richa ...Show more
Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? Whose manuscript was inadvertently used to light a fire? What was the original title of 1984? This is the ideal an ...Show more
Fit to Print : The Writing & Editing Style Guide for Aotearoa New Zealand by Janet Hughes & Derek Wallace
44.99 NZD
Category: Language
An essential resource for those involved in preparing or presenting work for publication in print or on the web: extensive guide to current conventions of written English; defines the differences between English in Aotearoa New Zealand and America; explains the use of Maori in English-language texts; ex ...Show more
Lighted Windows : Critical Essays on Robin Hyde by Mary Edmond-Paul
40.00 NZD
Category: Language
Robin Hyde, journalist, poet, novelist, war correspondent (from China, in 1938) and committed political figure, was central to the movements and debates of a volatile period in New Zealand society. As a writer Hyde was not afraid to draw on her own experience of the dangers of new-found freedoms for wom ...Show more
Q and Eh - Questions and Answers on Language with a Kiwi Twist by Laurie Bauer; Dianne Bardsley; Janet Holmes; Paul Warren
39.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: good-very good
Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where does 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thin ...Show more
In a Word: The Essential Tool for Finding the Perfect Word by Mark Broatch
34.99 NZD
Category: Language
If you're reaching for superlatives but can only come up with, 'Yeah, the match/meal/musical was great' ...If you're recommending a book on your blog or in the college mag and all you can offer is, 'The plot is fantastic' ...If you like hanging out at movie previews and want to bluff your way into the i ...Show more
Style Book by Derek Wallace & Janet Hughes
39.95 NZD
Category: Language
First published 1958 as New Zealand Government Printing Office Style Book; this revised edition 1995.
The Frame Function: An Inside-out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame by Jan Cronin
49.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: Very Good
From Owls do Cry to The Carpathians, the novels of Janet Frame have challenged our understanding of what fiction does. In The Frame Function, author Jan Cronin traces the operation of a prescriptive authorial presence within Frame's novels to give readers an engaging "inside-out" guide to a great writer ...Show more