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Hollow Woods: Storytelling Card Game
01/08/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
Reviving the Victorian craze for `myrioramas', the 20 picture cards in Hollow Woods can be placed in any order to create seamless scenes using over two quintillion possible combinations.
Release the Bats: Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction.
Short circuit;Guide to the art of the short story
Paperback,
15/11/2009,
£14.99
£13.49
A guide to writing a short story. It features a collection of 24 essays from the short story writers, many of them prize winners in the toughest short story competitions in the English language. It includes writing exercises, and lists of published stories.
Penguin Book of Twentieth-century Speeches
Paperback,
26/08/1993,
£9.99
£8.99
A general anthology of speeches which includes examples from the pulpit, from the Commons and from the scaffold. They range from the Sermon on the Mount to Kennedy's "Ask not what" speech, from the Gettysburg Address to Winston Churchill's war speeches, and from Adolf Hitler to Martin Luther.
Character, Scene, and Story: New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion
Paperback,
02/10/2017,
£15.00
£13.50
Good Fiction Guide
7,
07/07/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
A guide to fiction with introductions to over 1,100 authors. This book covers twentieth-century fiction, popular classics, autobiographical fiction and foreign language translations, and includes 34 overviews by best-selling authors introducing different genres.
On Creativity: Interviews Exploring the process
Hardback,
01/05/2003,
£14.99
£13.49
In this series of interviews drawn from his BBC Radio 3 series, John Tusa talks to some of the leading creative minds of our times - including Howard Hodgkin, Edward Bond, Eve Arnold, Frank Auerbach and Muriel Spark. Two essays by John Tusa on creativity and on interviewing are also included.
Going to the Movies: A Personal Journey Through Four Decades of Modern Film
Paperback,
09/10/2001,
£14.99
£13.49
Write for Life
Paperback,
15/12/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
'Both a writer's notebook and a manual. To explain what techniques? Something like those involved in the in the miracle at Whitsum. When tongues of fire filled the house and the apostles received the gifts of words. A preparatory manual. Practical. Straightforward. Containing hope.'
Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library
Paperback,
30/01/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
Chris Paling's Reading Allowed is a wonderful, warm-hearted and eccentric look at the life of a librarian in a provincial library, and the extraordinary cast of characters he encounters every day.
Sing me the Creation: Creative Writing Sourcebook
Paperback,
02/09/2015,
£19.99
£17.99
A practical sourcebook for educators, creative writers and all who seek to nurture the imagination
Magic of Writing
Paperback,
13/02/2018,
£18.99
£17.09
In this engaging guide, teacher, poet and lyricist Adrian May shows how magic is a tool used by writers to generate creativity, where concepts of magic are seen as portals of creative power.
Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
Paperback,
08/11/2016,
£19.95
£17.96
David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Brevity is an indispensable resource for anyone working in this increasingly popular form.
Rules for Mavericks: A Manifesto for Dissident Creatives
Paperback,
27/04/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
Rules for Mavericks is a guidebook to leading a creative life, to being a renaissance dilettante, to infesting your art form with other art forms, to taking a stand against mediocrity, to rejecting bloodless orthodoxies, to embracing your own pretension and, most of all, to dealing with your failure(s).
Literary Gaming
Hardback,
14/03/2014,
£27.00
£24.30
A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works.
Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Paperback,
01/07/2018,
£18.99
£17.09
A revised edition of the very successful fully illustrated guide to writing fantastical fiction, which provides instruction and motivation for aspiring authors from some of today's bestselling fantasy authors
Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing
Paperback,
10/07/2017,
£15.99
£14.39
This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students with a broad-based knowledge of their craft, treating them as professional writers.
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing ... and Life.
Hardback,
27/09/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: The Writing Life
Paperback,
06/09/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
A previously unpublished collection of work on the art of writing - by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers
Faber & Faber: The Untold History of a Great Publishing House
Hardback,
02/05/2019,
£20.00
£18.00
And how did a tiny firm set up by two men in 1925 - weathering obstacles from wartime paper shortages to dramatic financial crashes - survive to this very day?
Toby Faber has grown up with these stories, and uses a range of humorous and surprising sources to tell the history of the publisher in its own words.
Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on the Wall Street Journal: Based on the Wall Street Journal Guide
Paperback,
01/11/1988,
£16.99
£15.29
Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft
Paperback,
25/03/2019,
£17.00
£15.30
Classic creative writing text now in its tenth edition.
Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories
Paperback,
04/08/2016,
£12.99
£11.69
How to write fiction and unlock the secret power of stories
Research Methods in Creative Writing
Paperback,
07/12/2012,
£24.99
£22.49
A guide to the modes and methods of Creative Writing research, designed to be invaluable to university staff and students in formulating research ideas, and in selecting appropriate strategies. Creative writing researchers from around the globe offer a selection of models that readers can explore and on which they can build.
Playing With Words: A Introduction to Creative Craft
Paperback,
23/09/2016,
£17.99
£16.19
Drawing on years of experience of writing, teaching and publishing, this book offers essential tools for anyone interested in honing their craft. With a variety of exercises and freewriting prompts to help you try new styles and approaches, it is suitable for aspiring poets, non-fiction writers, novelists and all lovers of words.
Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not getting What You Wanted
Paperback,
04/09/2014,
£1.99
£1.79
A brilliantly funny and clever exploration of why it's only in a bookshop that you'll find something you never knew you wanted to read, from the author of The Etymologicon, The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence
Prompted to Write: Three Years of Words for Well-being in Cornwall
Paperback,
01/10/2010,
£6.00
£5.40
Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors
Paperback,
30/12/2015,
£26.95
£24.26
The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors who enlighten, push, encourage, and sometimes hurt, fail, and limit their proteges. This collection is rich with anecdotes from the heartfelt to the salacious, gems of writing advice, and guidance for how to live the writing life.
Masterclasses in Creative Writing: Inspirational Instruction and Exercises for Writers of Fiction
Paperback,
03/04/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
Exercises and masterclasses - plus excerpts and quotations from well known authors - that will improve your confidence and writing abilities.
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