Writing

Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters. The hardest part of research isn't answering a question. It's knowing what to do before you know what your question...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838434304Author Andrew BoultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Gasp BooksPublisher Gasp Books

One-time teacher and bestselling novelist Joanne Harris has been advising and corresponding with aspirational writers for over six years. This collection of pithy and funny lists of advice provides both hard-won wisdom and insider industry help. All...

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The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north of England, the second examines his own political views.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series...

Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page-whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957584273Author Michael J HolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Beach Hut PublishingPublisher Beach Hut PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916982123Author Journey Together Publishing PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Journey Together PublishingPublisher Journey Together...

Each page provides a brand-new prompt designed to stretch you as an artist and a person. Fill-in-the-blanks to create a touching love sonnet; compose a haiku about your biggest mistake; or write a free verse poem on anything from hope, to a locked door,...

The method that's helped thousands in the U.S. and Japan learn Japanese successfully.The Japanese language has two primary writing systems, kanji characters-which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana-a mnemonic based alphabet. This...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999276287Author K StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Fictionary PressPublisher Fictionary PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060545697Author Renni BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599635378Author Ronald B. TobiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Elizabeth George is one of the most successful writers of crime fiction in the world. Her twelve novels have appeared on bestseller lists in the UK, USA and Australia, and several of them have been dramatised by BBC Television as the Inspector Lynley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906327125Author Michael P JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Latimer TrustPublisher Latimer TrustWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written and structured, compelling, wise and fabulously readable' Lissa Evans'The Writing School is an extraordinary book. It is...

With its friendly, step-by-step format, the Third Edition of Becoming an Academic Writer by Patricia Goodson helps readers improve their writing by engaging in deep, deliberate, and daily practice. Featuring 50 exercises, this guide is organized so...

Now that you are approaching the final stages of your degree, have you ever wondered how you're going to cope with writing your dissertation? Apart from the practicalities of suddenly having to think and work in a completely different, and more in-depth,...

The image of the witch - crook-nosed, unpleasant of disposition and with a penchant for harming her neighbours - is well established in the popular imagination. For hundreds of years the accusation of witchcraft has been levelled against women throughout...

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book...

'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our...

Equip learners to achieve in the Extended Essay. The only support matched to the new IB Guide, this essential resource provides learners with a step-by-step pathway to maximize achievement. With complete guidance for every aspect of writing and...

Maternal Journal is filled to the brim with ideas, support and inspiration to create your very own journal through your pregnancy, birth and parenthood. This easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated book will help you explore your creative voice and...

The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different...

In a surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once again provided their refreshing and witty take on events. Now in its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998531731Author Nancy J CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Orange Grove PressPublisher Orange Grove PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582975276Author Bill RoorbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm)...

Revision might seem to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in the virtues of redrafting from early-twentieth-century modernism. Closely examining changes made in manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs...

This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, Best Words, Best Order, moves into new terrain in this...

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form...

Thriving as a Graduate Writer offers a comprehensive guide to the multifaceted challenges of writing in graduate school. It shows readers how to think about academic writing, how to manage an academic text, and how to establish an effective writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939309471Author Natasha C SassFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Busstop PressPublisher Busstop PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471676195Author Barbara SeulingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

This new, fully updated edition of The Crime Writer's Guide to Police Practice and Procedure is the essential detective in your pocket - something to reach for when your writing needs that short, sharp shock of modern-day investigating. Every writer has...

A fun, silly and sad show for anyone whose brain isn't always on their side. Sally's a happy person. She doesn't let little things get her down and almost never cries. But she's got an illness. It makes her feel like she isn't the person she wants to be....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786219643009Author Michelle CablingFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Bartlet Book PublishingPublisher Bartlet Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

Hirohiko Araki is the author of one of the longest-running and most beloved manga of all time, the epic fan favorite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. According to him, manga is the ultimate synthesis of all forms of art, and in this book he reveals the secrets...

From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to...