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Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading by Alex Johnson 9780712352864
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.50Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy - and stress - for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form... -
The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living Adela Pinch 9781531508616
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues... -
Early Women Writers: 1600 - 1720 Anita Pacheco 9780582304635
Booksplease Price: $107.81The last twenty years have witnessed the rediscovery of a large number of women writers of the early modern period. This process of recovery has had a major impact on early modern studies for, by... -
Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature by Lorna Down 9789766407384
Booksplease Price: $88.49Spanning three generations of teacher-writers, Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature speaks to the emergence of a distinct body of teaching styles, approaches, methods and philosophy for teaching... -
Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy by Paula Finn 9781538109182
Booksplease Price: $77.18Behind every great television show is a group of professionals working at the top of their games-but no one is more important than the writers. And while writing comedy, especially good comedy, is... -
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter 9780300250176
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.66An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist "Concise and compelling."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939-2018) was... -
A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration by Michael Shapiro 9781609521561
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $54.20In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's... -
Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America by Ashley Reed
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious... -
Forty-One False Starts: eEssays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
Booksplease Price: $33.79Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her biographies of Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction - as is the title... -
History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories by Gillian Polack 9781800790889
RRP: $37.38Booksplease Price: $35.26Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an... -
The Gospel According to a Sitcom Writer by James Cary 9780281085637
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Maybe Jesus was joking, the disciples didn't know what they were doing and the New Testament is a lot funnier than you might think. You would think it weird if someone suddenly ascended into... -
Africa Writes Back - The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature by James Currey
Booksplease Price: $58.59In 2012 the African Writers Series celebrated its 50th anniversary. Africa Writes Back tells the publishing story behind some of the books and authors in the series. Africa Writes Back was... -
Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge by Katie Garner 9781137597113
Booksplease Price: $234.34This book reveals the breadth and depth of women's engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women's responses to the medieval... -
The Political Science Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide by Gregory M. Scott 9781442267107
Booksplease Price: $83.58The Political Science Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide is a practical guide to research, reading, and writing in political science. The Political Science Student Writer's Manual and... -
A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration by Michael Shapiro 9781932361087
Booksplease Price: $30.70In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's... -
Go West: Seldom-Told Stories from History by Western Writers of America 9781493051076
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $31.16From tales of early baseball in the old west to the young men who fought for Texas Independence, these short stories by experts in their fields bring together a different view of the American... -
The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers by Wendy Martin
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the... -
Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers by Alex Temblador 9781250907110
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $29.51A practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own. Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Pandora Sykes 9781526657480
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite... -
Legacies of Departed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power by Helen O. Chukwuma 9781666914658
Booksplease Price: $215.27Legacies of Passed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power proffers varied perspectives of the invaluable contributions of ten deceased African writers from all across Africa who have... -
Living In America: Poetry And Fiction By South Asian American Writers by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
Booksplease Price: $83.35"This is a major compilation of Asian American authors, some native-born, others immigrants, refugees, or expatriates. While some of the writers are well known (e.g., Ved Mehta, Meena Alexander),... -
The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living Adela Pinch 9781531508609
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $161.07We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues... -
Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge by Katie Garner 9781349955664
Booksplease Price: $159.18This book reveals the breadth and depth of women's engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women's responses to the medieval... -
Dramatic Storytelling and Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Video Games and Transmedia Ross Berger 9781032571614
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.98This book provides an industry professional's first-hand perspective on narrative design's practical usage, day-to-day roles and responsibilities, and keys to breaking in and succeeding. The book... -
The Black Writers' Toolbox: A Practical Guide to Writing Fiction Dr Muli Amaye 9781350444768
Booksplease Price: $138.54Presenting a new way of thinking about the practice of writing fiction for Black writers and any writer who includes non-white characters in their work, The Black Writer's Toolbox is a practical... -
Dead Writers: Stories Jean Marc Ah-Sen 9781778430541
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45In this collaborative omnibus-style fiction project, four writers navigate the protean concept of the "bargain" in novella-length stories. The lives of a biographer surveying the career of a... -
Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age: Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz by Lee W. Congdon 9781442277519
Booksplease Price: $79.42During the 1920s-the Golden Age of sports-sports writers gained their own recognition while covering such athletes as Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, and Red Grange. The top journalists of the... -
Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Siga Fatima Jagne
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $105.40This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically... -
Vintage Crime: from the Crime Writers' Association Martin Edwards 9781787585478
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50"A book that should provide hours of entertainment and discovery for fans of mysteries and especially those with British roots and overtones." - Criminal Element Vintage Crime is a CWA anthology... -
The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris Jason Weiss 9780415940139
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often... -
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling by Charles Johnson 9781501147227
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $22.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501147227Author Charles JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Teaching Beginning Writers by David L. Coker 9781462520121
Booksplease Price: $107.25An essential "how-to" primer, this book examines the process of learning to write and shares evidence-based instructional strategies for the primary grades. With an emphasis on explicit instruction... -
Writers' & Artists' Poetry Writers' Handbook: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Poetry Noticed, Published and Performed by Sophia Blackwell
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.61Poetry is increasingly democratic in its use of different formats, but it can be difficult to know how to navigate the range of options available. In a competitive field, this information is not... -
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The Gospel According to a Sitcom Writer by James Cary 9780281085637 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $7.41Maybe Jesus was joking, the disciples didn't know what they were doing and the New Testament is a lot funnier than you might think. You would think it weird if someone suddenly ascended into... -
The Black Writers' Toolbox: A Practical Guide to Writing Fiction Dr Muli Amaye 9781350444775
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $43.97Presenting a new way of thinking about the practice of writing fiction for Black writers and any writer who includes non-white characters in their work, The Black Writer's Toolbox is a practical... -
Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis David M Palfreyman 9781032025643
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This innovative volume is one of the first to represent the usage of bilingual writers in both their languages, offering insight into language corpora as extremely valuable tools in contemporary... -
Developing Young Writers in the Classroom: I've got something to say Gail Loane 9781138653900
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50Educators want young people to grow up knowing that writing is an important and deeply satisfying life skill, one that helps them make more sense of themselves and their world, and one that helps... -
Inspired by Cats: Writers and Their Mews(es) Bob Eckstein 9781682689493
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.42Cats and writers are a match made in book heaven. Cats share a tendency to be introverts, as are many writers. Cats have served as trusted desk mates from the composition of a single poem to the... -
Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers by Amal Amireh 9780815336068
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06This book explores the problematic of reading and writing about third world women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. The ten essays contained in this... -
Writers' Journeys That Shaped Our World: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats: Volume 1 Travis Elborough 9780711268739
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Some truly remarkable works of literature...