The Rough Guide to Classic Novels by Simon Mason
19.95 NZD
Category: Language
Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written.Over 230 of the world's greatest novels are covered, from Quixote (1614) to Orhan Pamuk's Snow (2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors - and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations ...Show more
Better English by Dorothy Massey
35.95 NZD
Category: Language | Series: In Focus Ser.
Are you learning or improving your English? Do you need to improve your communication skills? This highly practical book starts with the premise that the only way to improve effective spoken English is to start practising it in real-life situations. The Better English technique means that right from the ...Show more
The Writing Book: A Practical Guide for Fiction Writers by Kate Grenville
32.99 NZD
Category: Language
From the acclaimed author of The Secret River, a completely practical workbook that offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for writers or aspiring writers to get started and keep going Full of ideas and examples to get pen to paper or fingers on the keyboard, this guidedoesn't just talk about how to ...Show more
Heart and Craft: Bestselling Romance Writers Share Their Secrets by Valerie Parv
29.99 NZD
Category: Language
The ultimate 'how-to' book on romance writing, written by some of the most successful romance writers in the world and edited the undisputed queen of romance fiction, Valerie Parv.
Juicy Writing: Inspiration and techniques for young writers by Brigid Lowry
23.99 NZD
Category: Language
Being a writer is good because you get paid to write stuff up, you can stay home and work in your pajamas and you get to travel because it's research. Being a writer is bad when you're sitting all by yourself staring at a blank page. Brigid Lowry knows the highs and lows of being a writer, but she still ...Show more
Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights by Robert Schnakenberg
38.00 NZD
44.99 (15% off)
Category: Language
Contains irreverent and fun-filled bios of writers you were forced to read in school, from Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson to JD Salinger and Sylvia Plath. It covers Franz Kafka, who chewed his food 45 times before swallowing; WB Yeats, who paid surgeons to transplant monkey glands into his scrotum; and ...Show more
Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing (2nd ed, 2004)
35.00 NZD
36.00 (2% off)
Category: Language | Series: The Complete Idiot's Guide
The information and inspiration you need to write your masterpiece is here!
Latin for All Occasions by Howard Beard
25.00 NZD
Category: Language
With more than 200,000 copies in print, Latin for All Occasions and its follow-up, Latin for Even More Occasions, have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero. Impress your boss with Occupational Latin (Lingua Latina Occupationi); sell your product with Sales Latin (Lingua Lat ...Show more
Working Portuguese for Beginners by Monica Rector
158.00 NZD
Category: Language
"Working Portuguese" enables English speakers with no prior knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese to develop the basic communication skills and cultural knowledge needed to visit Brazil and to function in a work environment in which Portuguese is spoken. This language program presents not only all the situa ...Show more
Writer with a Day Job: Inspiration & Exercises to Help You Craft a Writing Life Alongside Your Career by Aine Greaney
35.99 NZD
39.99 (10% off)
Category: Language
Balancing a full-time job and a productive writing life is no easy feat! "Writer With a Day Job" offers writers advice, skill-building techniques, prompts, and exercises in every chapter, and strategies on how to get and keep writing while also working the 9 to 5 grind. Readers discover tips and exercis ...Show more
Write Right: A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar and Style by Jan Venolia
29.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
This volume presents hard-to-grasp concepts in an easy-to-get format, with practical advice, examples and discussions on usage and style. This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated.
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more