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Jean Toomer: Writer for a New America George Hutchinson 9780300267730
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.89A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was among the... -
The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland by Sinead Gleeson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78NEW 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... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
Booksplease 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... -
How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America by Mystery Writers of America
RRP: £8.99Booksplease 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... -
Beat Your Writer′s Block by Andrew Edwards
Booksplease Price: £9.14Finding 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... -
Then There Were More Short Stories: From the Crime Writer's Association Martin Edwards 9781804177280
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68A 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... -
Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer by Victoria Glendinning 9780571290352
Booksplease Price: £16.22In this richly detailed biography Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist (The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day) whose literary achievements were matched by her... -
Against Borges: Four Women Writers of his Inner Circles Patricia N. Klingenberg 9781837722044
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.59The four writers of this study - Norah Lange, Silvina Ocampo, Estela Canto and Silvina Bullrich - are rarely considered together. Each, however, made their literary start within the close-knit... -
Forty-One False Starts: eEssays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
Booksplease Price: £16.33Janet 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... -
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... -
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 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... -
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter 9780300250176
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An 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... -
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg 9781846042072
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Wild 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... -
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... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242453
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51A 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... -
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... -
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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... -
Dead Writers in Rehab by Paul Bassett Davies 9781783523559
Booksplease Price: £14.08When 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. ... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242439
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.12A 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... -
Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers by Norma Elia Cantú 9780816551828
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements.Artist... -
The Rejected Writers' Book Club by Suzanne Kelman 9781503934146
Booksplease Price: £9.65Librarian 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: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.78An 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... -
The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master by Martha Alderson 9781440525889
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Discover how to create stories that build suspense, reveal character, and engage your audience with this ultimate guide to writing.When it comes to writing bestsellers, it's all about the plot... -
The Brontës as Gothic Writers: The Afflicted Imagination James Thomas Quinnell 9781837722525
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.59This book is the first extended study of the importance of Gothic for an appreciation of the Brontes' writing. It resituates Gothic from the mode that gives the pleasing sensation of terror to being... -
Thus I Lived with Words: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writer's Craft by Annette R. Federico
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.94Robert 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... -
Emergence: The 30 Best New Voices With Powerful Must-Read Stories by SBS Emerging Writers' Competition 9781743799963
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20Emergence 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... -
Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose by Helen Sword 9780226351988
Booksplease Price: £15.82Do 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... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47From 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... -
How to Kill a Crime Writer Sarah Lotz 9780008464097
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63She 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... -
1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front by S. A. An-Sky
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In... -
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Writing for Health Professionals: A Manual for Writers by Philips Burnard 9780412719806 [USED COPY]
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £3.37Writing 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... -
Oxblood: Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award by Tom Benn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12**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... -
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... -
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska 9780811229715
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11In 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... -
Interpretive Theme Writer's Field Guide: How to Craft Strong Themes from Big Idea to Presentation Jon Kohl 9798881807498
Booksplease Price: £112.13The interpretive theme is the most important sentence an interpreter inks on paper. Despite its centrality to thematic interpretation, no single work has dedicated itself entirely to the art and... -
Lucky Girl, How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by Mary Rickert
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35Ro, 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 -... -
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... -
The Way of the Fearless Writer: Ancient Eastern wisdom for a flourishing writing life by Beth Kempton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease 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...