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• Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009: A Directory for Writers, Artists, Playwrights, Designers, Illustrators and Photographers (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)

  Kate Mosse (foreword)

  
  
   

• Jumpstart!: Literacy - Games and Activities for Ages 7-14

  Pie Corbett

  
  
   

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

  Maryanne Wolf

  
  
   

• The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts

  David Lodge

  
  
   

• Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook) (Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)

  
  
   

• The Writer's Handbook 2009: 816

  
  
   

• Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, from Pitch to Publication - Everything You Need to Know About Writing Novels, Non-fiction, New Media, Scripts and Short Stories

  Jurgen Wolff

  
  
   

• Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (Palgrave Study Guides)

  Patrick Dunleavy

  
  
   

• Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 1: Kipper Storybooks: Pack of 6 (1 of Each Title) (Oxford Reading Tree)

  Roderick Hunt

  
  
   

• Read Write Inc.: Set 1: Speed Sound Cards

  Gill Munton

  
  
   

• Writer's Market UK 2009

  
  
   

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

  Maryanne Wolf

  
  
   

• Becoming a Writer

  Dorothea Brande

  
  Refreshingly slim, beautifully written and deliciously elegant, Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. It's just a question of finding the "writer's magic"--a degree of which is in us all. She also insists that writing can be both taught and learned. So she is enraged by the pessimistic authors of so many writing books who rejoice in trying to put off the aspiring writer by constantly stressing how difficult it all is.

  With close reference to the great writers of her day--Wolfe, Forster, Wharton and so on--Brande gives practical but inspirational advice about finding the right time of day to write and being very self disciplined about it--"You have decided to write at four o'clock, and at four o'clock you must write." She's strong on confidence building and there's a lot about cheating your unconscious which will constantly try to stop you writing by coming up with excuses. Then there are exercises to help you get into the right frame of mind and to build up writing stamina.

  This edition comes with an informative foreword by the late Malcolm Bradbury, a man who knew a thing or two about teaching writing, having pioneered the innovative MA course in creative writing at the University of East Anglia which nurtured, among many other writers, Rose Tremain, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. It's a pity, however, that Brande (and Bradbury) define "writing" so narrowly. They refer only to novels and short stories--ignoring biography, travel writing, plays, poems, essays and reportage. In fact, Brande is unreasonably dismissive of journalism as if it were just an uncreative, prostituted form of "real" writing. --Susan Elkin

  
   

• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer within: Freeing the Writer Within

  Natalie Naimark-Goldberg

  
  Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control and don't think. Goldberg brings a touch of both Zen and well... *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have, and writing from the moment. --Ali Perry-Gallagher
  
   

• Read Write Inc. Phonics: Home More Phonics Flashcards (Read Write Inc Phonics)

  Ruth Miskin

  
  
   

• Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 1: First Words: Pack of 6 (1 of Each Title) (Oxford Reading Tree)

  Roderick Hunt

  
  
   

• The Academic Essay: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Edit (In-Focus - a Studymates Series)

  Derek Soles

  
  
   

• Read Write Inc.: Set 2 & 3: Speed Sound Cards

  Gill Munton

  
  
   

• Writing for Journalists (Media Skills) (Media Skills)

  WYNFORD HICKS, Sally Adams, HARRIETT GILBERT, Tim Holmes

  
  
   

• How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren