In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$31.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut--an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story--of a long and sometimes difficult cour ...Show more
A Book on Books: New Aesthetics in Book Design by Victionary
$70.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
From scrolls and sheets of papyrus to elaborate and expensive codices to the mass press-printed volumes as we know them today, books have come a long way since writing was first developed. Although digital technology has impacted how we consume information over the last few decades, book design has surv ...Show more
Open Secrets: Essays on the Writing Life by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
The lives of writers are a topic of perennial fascination to readers – and indeed to other writers. And yet the writer at work is often a mythologised figure, distant from the cares of the day. In Open Secrets, Australian writers reflect upon the material conditions that give rise to their writing pract ...Show more
Portable Magic - A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow ...Show more
Books Make A Home: Elegant Ideas for Storing and Displaying Books by Damian Thompson
$90.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
Books Make a Home explores the important role books play as decorative as well as functional items. Bibliophile Damian Thompson tours the rooms of the home in turn - Living Rooms, Home Libraries & Studies, Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms, Corridors & Staircases and Children's Rooms - discover ...Show more
Books Do Furnish a Room by Leslie Geddes Brown
$59.95 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
As all book lovers know, a collection of books affords not only access to endless pleasure and knowledge, but also, when skilfully deployed around the home, the opportunity to create a multitude of decorative impressions, whether classically formal, strikingly colourful or apparently artless. In this be ...Show more
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
$33.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris The captivating story of a trailblazing young woman who fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world. PARIS, 1919. Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no gr ...Show more
Temples of Books - Magnificent Libraries Around the World by gestalten (Editor); Marianne Julia Strauss (Editor)
$115.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
In 2016, the world's oldest existing library reopened in Fes, Morocco. It opened for the first time in the 9th Century. These shrines to the written word date back even further, and continue to be built today. They're a place where some of the oldest written texts are preserved and some of the newest te ...Show more
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
$65.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, rad ...Show more
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
$20.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookshop he inherited from his beloved grandfather. Then, a talking cat named Tiger appears with an unusual request. The cat needs Rintaro’s help to save books that have been imprisoned, destroyed and unloved. Their mission sen ...Show more
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$45.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt do ...Show more
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
$17.00 AUD
Category: Books about Books & Writing
How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delve ...Show more