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You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And sometimes, in hindsight, wish you could put them back. A... -
Editors Talk about Editing: Insights for Readers, Writers and Publishers by Susan L. Greenberg 9781433120039
RRP: £32.30Booksplease Price: £29.82The work of "editing" is by and large something that happens behind the scenes, noticed only when it is done badly, or not done at all. There is not much information about what editors do. The result... -
Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 by John Ernest 9780807855218
Booksplease Price: £48.24As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach... -
A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan's Complete Collected Short Prose by Brendan Behan 9781843518594
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.72Brendan Behan wrote over one hundred articles for Irish newspapers between 1951 and 1956 as he rose to international fame, with most of them written in a weekly column in the Irish Press. The... -
Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 by Nina Baym
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them... -
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our... -
Genesis and Revision in Modern British and Irish Writers by Jonathan Bloom 9783030502768
Booksplease Price: £110.84This unusually diverse collection of ten essays, devoted to British and Irish writers and poets from 1895 to the present, explores many aspects of the creative process, from inspiration to... -
George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone by Henry Chamberlain 9781978834217
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.46George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean's Eleven. More legendary works followed, including... -
Developing Writers Across the Primary and Secondary Years: Growing into Writing by Helen Lewis
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Writing development and pedagogy is a high priority area, particularly with standardised testing showing declines in writing across time and through the years of schooling. However, to date there are... -
The Public Relations Writer's Handbook: The Digital Age Merry Aronson 9780787986315
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.95The second edition of the Public Relations Writer's Handbook offers a simple, step-by-step approach to creating a wide range of writing, from basic news releases, pitch letters, biographies, and... -
The Way of the Fearless Writer: Ancient Eastern wisdom for a flourishing writing life by Beth Kempton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A revolutionary approach to writing inspired by ancient Eastern wisdom, from the bestselling author of Wabi SabiJoin author and Japanologist Beth Kempton on a sacred journey to uncover the secrets of... -
Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf by Susan David Bernstein
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum... -
Inspiration and Transcendence in the Fiction of Kate Chopin: Echoes of Nineteenth-Century German Women and Women Writers by Heidi M. Podlasli-Labrenz 9781666946314
Booksplease Price: £88.90Inspiration and Transcendence in the Fiction of Kate Chopin: Echoes of Nineteenth Century German Women and Women Writers marks the first comprehensive study which explicitly links Kate Chopin's work... -
Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers: A Special Collection of Essays by Nina Cornyetz 9781032437330
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased attention these writers have received following the release of their work in the... -
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement by Carmen L. Phelps 9781617036804
Booksplease Price: £99.43A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological... -
Breaking into TV Writing: How to Get Your First Job, Build Your Network, and Claw Your Way Into the Writers' Room Anton Schettini 9781684429868
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.85The old screenwriting motto is, "Work on your script, and the jobs will come." This is false.A great script is only as good as the effort you put into your career, but there is little information for... -
How to Kill a Crime Writer Sarah Lotz 9780008464059
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79She wrote for a living. But who wanted her dead? When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it's... -
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon 9781421429441
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £20.70Prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator and explorer. As society's outsiders, the exceptional subjects of this study inspired a new breed of women-and one another.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best... -
Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo by Grant Faulkner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Every writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handsome handbook from the executive... -
Part Wild: A Writer's Guide to Harnessing the Creative Power of Resistance by Deb Norton 9781501129155
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"A must-read for any aspiring or seasoned writer." -Huffington Post We all have the call to create. The question is...why don't we answer it?We all come pre-loaded with a creative spark that drives... -
Jane Addams, a Writer's Life by Katherine Joslin 9780252076343
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Jane Addams, a Writer's Life is an expansive, revealing, and refreshing reexamination of the renowned reformer as an imaginative writer. Jane Addams is best known for her groundbreaking social work... -
Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers John L Williams 9780857306265
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38In the summer of 1989 John Williams embarked on an epic journey through a deeply troubled USA. A right-wing Republican administration seemed bent on rolling back the advances of the civil rights era;... -
Promoting African American Writers: Library Partnerships for Outreach, Programming, and Literacy by Grace M. Jackson-Brown 9781440870279
Booksplease Price: £56.12"A welcome guide to promoting Black authors through library programming, laden with examples and advice from an experienced and dedicated practitioner. Especially recommended for outreach-minded MLIS... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers... -
British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 by Devoney Looser 9780801879050
Booksplease Price: £27.60Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers... -
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry by George Getschow 9781477327876
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the... -
Arab Writer in English: Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language, 1908-58 by Geoffrey Nash 9781845191931
Booksplease Price: £67.30This book looks at the first generation of Arab British and Arab-American writers to produce English writings in the earlier twentieth-century: Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius and Edward... -
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska 9780811229715
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.79In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this... -
Brothers in Blood: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger by Amer Anwar
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018 GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018BOOKS IN THE MEDIA BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2018FEATURED ON CRIME TIME BEST OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE CWA DEBUT DAGGER'[A]... -
The Teenage Writer: A Guide to Writing for School and Creativity by Timothy Horan 9781538153178
Booksplease Price: £20.70An accessible guide to help teenagers improve all aspects of their writing skills, from preparing a research paper to creating works of fictionWriting well is a worthwhile skill for anyone to master,... -
The Mystery Writers Of America Cookbook by Kate White
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.18A deadly delicious collection of recipes for appetizers, entrees, desserts, drinks, and more, all from the bestselling authors of Mystery Writers of America. Whether it's Mary Higgins Clark's Game... -
Carlos Bulosan-Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States: A Critical Appraisal by E. San Juan 9781433157653
RRP: £35.60Booksplease Price: £32.66Carlos Bulosan-Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States: A Critical Appraisal is an in-depth, critical evaluation of Bulosan's major works in the context of the sociopolitical changes that... -
Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers Anne-Marie Beller (Loughborough University, UK) 9781138383203
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding... -
Staying with Writing: Practices for Sustaining the Writer's Work and Life Cindy Shearer 9781350455443
Booksplease Price: £61.31With rejection and intense commitment such integral parts of the writing life, many struggle to stay with the creative process. Combining explorations of perseverance, intention, riding through... -
Staying with Writing: Practices for Sustaining the Writer's Work and Life Cindy Shearer 9781350455450
Booksplease Price: £21.42With rejection and intense commitment such integral parts of the writing life, many struggle to stay with the creative process. Combining explorations of perseverance, intention, riding through... -
Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800 by Linda Van Netten Blimke 9781684484065
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to... -
Encyclopedia of British Women Writers by Paul Schlueter
Booksplease Price: £35.53This far-reaching examination of women writers identified with Great Britain builds on its predecessor's strengths, with 50 percent new material and completely updated entries. Over six hundred... -
Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan by Oleksandra Wallo 9781487506001
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.46Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian literary world has not only experienced a true blossoming of women's prose, but has also witnessed a number of female authors assume the roles of... -
Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness by Anjanette Delgado
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.11Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of the best literature of displacement... -
Reading Medieval European Women Writers: Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past by Albrecht Classen 9783631674079
RRP: £69.75Booksplease Price: £62.37Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the...