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The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas To Jump-start Your Imagination by Jason Rekulak
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.41Anxious to write that Great American Novel but don't know where to begin? Help is on the way with our Writer's Block! This guide to beating writer's block comes packaged in the shape of an actual... -
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea Marcus Berkmann 9781408713839
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this one. He reckons to have written literally millions of words in... -
The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame? by Elizabeth Lowry
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning... -
The Irish Writers: W.B. Yeats: A Biography by David Ross 9781781177754
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.70William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. A writer of verse since his teenage years, it was the publishing of The Wanderings of Oisin... -
Then There Were More Short Stories: From the Crime Writer's Association Martin Edwards 9781804177280
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99A CWA anthology celebrating members' fiction from over the years, Then There Were More is a delightful compilation of stories from some of the best crime writers of the last century. The first CWA... -
Writers Anonymous William Wall 9781848408852
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Fighting off the boredom of lockdown, acclaimed author Jim Winter decides to share his skills by setting up an anonymous online writing workshop - but his generosity will cost him more than he knows... -
How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America by Mystery Writers of America
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.71From 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... -
Beat Your Writer′s Block by Andrew Edwards
Booksplease Price: $12.25Finding it difficult to begin writing? This book gives you the knowledge and tools you need to be able to understand the root of your writing anxiety, overcome your writer's block and write with ease... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
Booksplease Price: $20.41Filled 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... -
The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats: Volume 1 Travis Elborough 9780711268722
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $10.56Follow 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... -
The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland by Sinead Gleeson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11NEW PAPERBACK EDITION 2015 saw the publication of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, edited by Sinead Gleeson. The Long Gaze Back was widely acclaimed and went on to win Best... -
Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080960
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of her... -
In the Company of Radical Women Writers by Rosemary Hennessy 9781517914905
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society's failures and injustices in the 1930s-a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical... -
Vintage Crime: from the Crime Writers' Association Martin Edwards 9781787585478
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89"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... -
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter 9780300250176
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84An 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... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Pandora Sykes 9781526657480
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A 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... -
Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers by Alex Temblador 9781250907110
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.83A 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... -
Dead Writers in Rehab by Paul Bassett Davies 9781783523559
Booksplease Price: $18.87When literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he's been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives. ... -
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg 9781846042072
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Wild Mind is for everyone who writes or wants to write. Natalie Goldberg teaches a Zen-like method that will take you straight to the source of creative power, to the mind that is 'raw, full of... -
Developing Young Writers in the Classroom: I've got something to say Gail Loane 9781138653900
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $41.79Educators 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... -
The Rejected Writers' Book Club by Suzanne Kelman 9781503934146
Booksplease Price: $12.93Librarian Janet Johnson is puzzled when she is invited-and practically dragged-to her first meeting of the Rejected Writers' Book Club. This quirky group of women would much rather celebrate one... -
Chance Particulars: A Writer's Field Notebook for Travelers, Bloggers, Essayists, Memoirists, Novelists, Journalists, Adventurers, Naturalists, Sketchers, and Other Note-Takers and Recorders of Life by Sara Mansfield Taber 9781421425085
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $18.47An essential guide for writers on how to record and use rich detail to enliven their work.The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide-eyed, the... -
Writers' & Artists' Poetry Writers' Handbook: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Poetry Noticed, Published and Performed by Sophia Blackwell
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.08Poetry 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... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242439
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.28A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman * Sarah Boxer * Jennifer... -
Writing for Health Professionals: A Manual for Writers by Philips Burnard 9780412719806 [USED COPY]
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $4.52Writing is an essential part of every health professional's job. In its second edition this volume has been expanded to include many more examples of good writing practice and examples of what others... -
Emergence: The 30 Best New Voices With Powerful Must-Read Stories by SBS Emerging Writers' Competition 9781743799963
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.03Emergence brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Now in its third year, the anthology features stories by thirty... -
Oxblood: Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award by Tom Benn
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award** **Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2023** **Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022** 'Oxblood shows us... -
Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose by Helen Sword 9780226351988
Booksplease Price: $21.20Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer's Diet is for you! It's a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost... -
Thus I Lived with Words: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writer's Craft by Annette R. Federico
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.34Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) loved more than anything to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself in the... -
The Way of the Fearless Writer: Ancient Eastern wisdom for a flourishing writing life by Beth Kempton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.63A 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... -
You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.82Life 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... -
Lucky Girl, How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by Mary Rickert
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.80Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner - all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is -... -
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska 9780811229715
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57In 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... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71From Colm Toibin comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only... -
Brothers in Blood: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger by Amer Anwar
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25THE 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]... -
How to Kill a Crime Writer Sarah Lotz 9780008464097
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22She 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... -
Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo by Grant Faulkner
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.94Every 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... -
Into the Badlands: America and its Crime Writers John L Williams 9780857306265
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59In 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;... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'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...