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Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of... -
Scribbling Women and the Short Story Form: Approaches by American and British Women Writers by Ellen Burton Harrington 9781433100772
RRP: £36.75Booksplease Price: £33.66"America is now wholly given over to a d - d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash..." Taking Hawthorne's famous 1855... -
Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America by Ashley Reed
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In 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... -
How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America by Mystery Writers of America
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries-from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers-"this is a writing guide... -
Forty-One False Starts: eEssays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
Booksplease Price: £16.09Janet 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... -
The Gospel According to a Sitcom Writer by James Cary 9780281085637
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Maybe 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... -
Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge by Katie Garner 9781137597113
Booksplease Price: £111.59This 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... -
Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality Elizabeth Emery 9781138251564
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Why did writers' private homes become so linked to their work that contemporaries began preserving them as museums? Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum addresses this... -
Africa Writes Back - The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature by James Currey
Booksplease Price: £27.90In 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... -
The Political Science Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide by Gregory M. Scott 9781442267107
Booksplease Price: £39.80The 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: £14.62In 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.84From 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... -
Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers by Alex Temblador 9781250907110
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.05A 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... -
The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers by Wendy Martin
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The 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... -
Networking at Writer's Conferences: From Contacts to Contracts by Steven D. Spratt 9780471055228
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Use writer's conferences to establish career-making contacts withagents, editors, and other writers Veteran writers and editors Steven and Lee Spratt offer savvyadvice on using writer's conferences... -
Legacies of Departed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power by Helen O. Chukwuma 9781666914658
Booksplease Price: £102.51Legacies 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... -
The Black Writers' Toolbox: A Practical Guide to Writing Fiction Dr Muli Amaye 9781350444768
Booksplease Price: £65.97Presenting 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... -
Early Women Writers: 1600 - 1720 Anita Pacheco 9780582304635
Booksplease Price: £51.34The 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... -
The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living Adela Pinch 9781531508609
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70We 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... -
Dramatic Storytelling and Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Video Games and Transmedia Ross Berger 9781032571614
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This 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... -
Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend: The Quest for Knowledge by Katie Garner 9781349955664
Booksplease Price: £75.80This 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... -
Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy by Paula Finn 9781538109182
Booksplease Price: £36.75Behind 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... -
History and Fiction: Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories by Gillian Polack 9781800790889
RRP: £17.80Booksplease Price: £16.79Shortlisted 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... -
Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age: Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz by Lee W. Congdon 9781442277519
Booksplease Price: £37.82During 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: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This 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... -
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling by Charles Johnson 9781501147227
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501147227Author Charles JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Vintage Crime: from the Crime Writers' Association Martin Edwards 9781787585478
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38"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... -
Writers' & Artists' Poetry Writers' Handbook: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Poetry Noticed, Published and Performed by Sophia Blackwell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.48Poetry 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... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Pandora Sykes 9781526657480
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A 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... -
Teaching Beginning Writers by David L. Coker 9781462520121
Booksplease Price: £51.07An 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... -
Living In America: Poetry And Fiction By South Asian American Writers by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
Booksplease Price: £39.69"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),... -
Inspired by Cats: Writers and Their Mews(es) Bob Eckstein 9781682689493
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.77Cats 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... -
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The Gospel According to a Sitcom Writer by James Cary 9780281085637 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.53Maybe 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... -
Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis David M Palfreyman 9781032025643
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This 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... -
The Black Writers' Toolbox: A Practical Guide to Writing Fiction Dr Muli Amaye 9781350444775
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.94Presenting 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... -
Developing Young Writers in the Classroom: I've got something to say Gail Loane 9781138653900
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Educators 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... -
Dead Writers: Stories Jean Marc Ah-Sen 9781778430541
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 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... -
Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers by Amal Amireh 9780815336068
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Follow 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... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Pandora Sykes 9781526657497
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A 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...