How to Write a Great Story (PB) by Caroline Lawrence
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Category: Writing Guides
Million-copy-selling author Caroline Lawrence shares her best tips in this fun and accessible guide to creative writing and storytelling.
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Writing Guides
Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read' However she is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous new collection she returns to the themes which have preo ...Show more
Poetry Prompts: All sorts of ways to start a poem from Joseph Coelho by Joseph Coelho
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Category: Writing Guides
Discover 40 ways to write a poem, with Joseph Coelho, Children's Laureate 2022-24. An essential for any budding writer or performer. This is a fabulous resource for creative writing, with an emphasis on reading and performing poems out loud.
The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach
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Category: Writing Guides
Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Par ...Show more
Samuel Johnson : A Biography by Peter Martin
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Category: Writing Guides
Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigous memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson is one of the greatest figures of English Literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after ...Show more
Words of a Feather : An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs by Graeme Donald
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Category: Writing Guides
In this quirky and humorous volume, Graeme Donald explores the fascinating links and curious connections between words. While at first these word pairs may appear to have very little in common, owing to years of linguistic shift, their origins can be traced back to the same root. In exploring these etym ...Show more
The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories by Gianni Rodari
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Category: Writing Guides
A collection of essays from the visionary storyteller Gianni Rodari about fairy tales and folk tales and their great advantages in teaching creative storytelling. "Rodari grasped children's need to play with life's rules by using the grammar of their own imaginations. They must be encouraged to questio ...Show more
Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2004 by Eoin Colfer
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Category: Writing Guides | Series: Writers' and Artists'
The best selling guide to markets in all areas of the media, completely revised, redesigned and updated, with a Foreword by Eoin Colfer (author of the bestseller Artemis Fowl). New articles in this edition include: Ghostwriting; Distribution; Adaptation. Listings include newspapers and magazines, book p ...Show more