Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Writing
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Writing
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
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Category: Writing
Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and comprehensive guide which will provide new and vital ...Show more
Why Is This a Question? - Everything about the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask by Paul Anthony Jones
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Category: Writing
'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The LibraryWhy don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at odds with the numbers tha ...Show more
Why Read: Selected Writings, 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
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Category: Writing
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature. From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by the Guardian, Will Self's Why ...Show more
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?: A Handbook for the Rejected Writer by Fay Weldon
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Category: Writing
You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon has a lifetime of wisdom to impart on the art of w ...Show more
Write Every Day: A Daily Exercise to Kickstart Your Creative Writing by Harriet Griffey
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Category: Writing
Writing for yourself is a wonderful way to explore personal creativity, but whatever writing you want to do - poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction - and whether or not you want to publish, you have remove yourself from your comfort zone, and start to explore the unchartered path to finding your own, ...Show more
Writers Who Changed History by DK; James Naughtie (Foreword by)
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Category: Writing
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each writer, alongside photographs of their homes and studies, and personal artefacts - along with pages from ...Show more
Writers' and Artists' Guide to How to Write - How to Plan, Structure and Write Your Novel by William Ryan
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Category: Writing | Series: Writers' and Artists' Ser.
How to Write is all about writing for publication, it concentrates on advice on how to construct, craft and draft novels across all genres, but the examples and details on what to consider when writing for any audience means it is relevant to writing in all its forms, including books for children and no ...Show more
Writers and Their Teachers by Dale Salwak (Editor)
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Category: Writing
By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Andrew Motion, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina ...Show more
Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition - A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French
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Category: Writing | Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
More than 250,000 copies sold A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped hundreds of ...Show more
Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication by Ann Whitford Paul
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Category: Writing
Master the Art of Writing Enthralling Tales for the Youngest pre-and emerging readers Fully updated and thoroughly revised, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is the go-to resource for writers crafting stories for children ages two to eight. You'll learn the unique set of skills it takes ...Show more