Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens
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Category: Writing
'Perfect' Lena Dunham 'This year's literary sensation' Evening StandardHow far would you travel to become a writer?8000 miles from home1085 calories a day3 months to write the novel that would make her nameAt least that was the plan. But when Nell Stevens travelled to Bleaker Island in the Falklands (of ...Show more
Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser by Roy Peter Clark
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Category: Writing
From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White. With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the ...Show more
Faber and Faber - The Untold Story of a Great Publishing House by Toby Faber
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Category: Writing
How does a book make its way into the world? Why do some get rejected while others become classics? This intimate history of Faber & Faber weaves together the most entertaining, moving and surprising letters, diaries and memos from the archive to reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest ...Show more
It's All Greek - Borrowed Words and Their Histories by Alexander Tulloch
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Category: Writing
Most of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Greek roots--words such as geometry, democracy, technology, and aesthetics. But lesser known is the wide and varied scope of old Athenian influence on the English language, which extends to some of our most mun ...Show more
The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques by Henry Russell
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Category: Writing
The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why th ...Show more
Ongoingness - The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
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Category: Writing
'This small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire.' Zadie SmithSarah Manguso kept a meticulous diary for twenty-five years. 'I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,' she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget ...Show more
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (HB) by David Chariandy
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Category: Writing
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy. I can glimpse, through the lens of my own e ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Category: Writing
From Prix Méditerranée-winning author Daniel Mendelsohn (shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pen Art of the Essay Award) comes a collection of eclectic writing that interrogates contemporary life and pop culture with wisdom and humour. 'Our most irresistible li ...Show more
Writing Dialogue - A Book of Writing Prompts by San Francisco San Francisco Writers' Grotto; Shanthi Sekaran (Foreword by)
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Category: Writing | Series: Lit Starts Ser.
A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Dialogue begins a foreword by author and educator Shanthi Sekaran, who offers pointers for cre ...Show more
Grammar Geek by Michael Powell
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Category: Writing
English is full of beauty and surprises, yet despite being the lingua franca of the globalization world, it has a reputation for being difficult to learn because its grammar has also so many quirks and contradictions. Did you know:- "Terry loves yogurt" is an example of illeism- preposition stranding i ...Show more
Speak Up! by Adora Svitak
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Category: Writing
Speak Up is a joyful celebration of 45 speeches by children and teenagers who have stood up for causes they passionately believe in and challenged adults in power to take note. This collection is testament to the hopefulness and spirit of the next generation, and the positive belief that we can, and sh ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
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Category: Writing | Series: Adventures of the Comma Queen
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in the New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers ...Show more