Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: On Writing
Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre cliches with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train. In the classic creative writing guide Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, Highsmith reveals h ...Show more
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
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Category: On Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ...like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void' With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinish ...Show more
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst
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Category: On Writing
The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and primitive superstition to become the dominant image of the undead today. In contemporary visions of global apocalypse, such as the films 28 Days Later, I Am Legend and World War Z and the phenomenally ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
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Category: On Writing
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood
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Category: On Writing
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
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Category: On Writing
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us o ...Show more
How to be a Writer: Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors, and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft by John Birmingham
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Category: On Writing
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the hell is wo ...Show more
Curious Mind by Brian Grazer
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Category: On Writing
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer has written a brilliantly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of curiosity and the life-changing effects it can have on every person's life. From Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer, New York Times bestseller A Cur ...Show more
Upstairs at the Strand: Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore by Jessica Strand
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Category: On Writing
Based on a series of talks pairing writers of note, Upstairs at the Strand offers candid accounts of the ways leading writers work, think and live. The book features such celebrated novelists, playwrights and poets as Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Charles Simic, Patti Smith and Mark Strand, as well as conte ...Show more
The View from the Cheap Seats - Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
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Category: On Writing
The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse in ...Show more