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By the Sword - A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
"Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio--the definitive study, hugely readable, of man's most deadly art."--Simon Winchester With a new Preface by the author Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolb ...Show more
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Reference
For anyone who has ever identified with a character from fiction, been seduced by a first sentence or been profoundly moved by a story's end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a wonderful and illuminating journey into the minds and imaginations of the world's greatest writers. What made Nabokov choose the na ...Show more
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
$19.98 AUD
Category: Reference
A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gaun ...Show more
Making History by Richard Cohen
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Spectator 'Grave and witty, suave yet pointed . . . full of energy' Hilary Mantel 'An enthralling investigation . . . consistently entertaining' The Times 'Epic . ...Show more
Making History: Storytellers Who Shaped The Past by Cohen Richard
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama -continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. There are many stories we can spin about years gone ...Show more
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