This book unlocks one of the great secrets about copywriting by revealing the vast range of opportunities that exist outside the world of TV advertising. The author shows how good writers are always in demand by companies and their agencies to tackle the mountain of brochures, mailers, letters and PR material they need to saty in business. With the help of this book, would-be writers, as well as establihsed writers and journalists, can learn more about this lucrative line of work and how to break into it. The author covers markets, briefings, style techniques, concepts and campaign development as well as practical aspects of freelance work such as handling invoices and organising your workload.

Freelance Copywriting (Writing Handbooks)

Wimbs, Diana

Literature & Fiction

A&C Black Academic and Professional

A handbook for writers that includes chapters on fiction techniques, heroes and heroines, plot and subplots, emotional impact, tension, focus, pace, setting, and language. Combining two writers’ styles, this book follows the premise that there is no one way to write.

Writing Romantic Fiction (Writing Handbooks)

Donald, Robyn

Clair, Daphne

Songs of a Sourdough is Robert Service at his best! This is nature poetry at its finest. Here, the “Bard of the Yukon” uses picture words that place the reader right in the Yukon of old. As you read you can see the stranger stagger in to the Malamute saloon and feel the fifty-below gush of air until he closes the door behind him.

Songs of a Sourdough (New Mermaids)

SERVICE, Robert

Poetry

The Best of Robert Service

Robert Service, famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon, among them The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", painted pictures of artists, grisettes and models from the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris of the early 1900s, inspired by the shadows of World War I as it fell across the city. Throughout these poems are expressions of the poet's own homespun philosophy. His verses offered gaiety, humour, mostalgia and pathos while his comments on women, life and death, ambition, success and failure, were all aimed to evoke quick response in the readers heart."

Dramas & Plays

Soap opera has become the most popular form of radio and television drama and now constitutes the biggest market for modern day dramatists. For the new writer, as well as those experienced in other genres, this book reveals how Soap works. As well as covering the specifics of Soap writing, Chris Curry guides the writer through the uniquely collaborative process from storylining to finished script.
'A clear, honest, practical and funny guide to soap writing' - Valerie Windsor.

Writing for Soaps (Writing Handbooks)

Curry, Chris

With staff cutbacks across the whole of the newspaper industry, the role of freelances is essential and their opportunities have never been greater. Who does what in the making of a newspaper and how does the freelance fit into the editor's plans? 
 This book deals with the importance of marketing and knowing your readers, first contact with editors, how to write regular columns and features, reviewing, interviewing and meeting deadlines - and how to acquire an inexhaustible flow of ideas. There is information on the essential business of writing including rights (and wrongs), tax, plagiarism, keeping records, rates of pay (and how to get paid), syndication, the power of the press, official organisations to help you - and more. With detailed chapters on style, research, making the internet work for you and the rewards of rewriting, this book covers everything you need to know for success.

Freelance Writing for Newspapers

Dick, Jill

Almost every writer, whether professional or beginner, has thought of a good sitcom idea at one time or another, but fleshing that idea out is a long and complicated process of character development, plotting, dialogue writing and rewriting and then putting the whole package together in a way that will attract producers. 
 In this book, successful sitcom writers John Byrne and Marcus Powell break that process down into a series of easy to follow steps. With chapters devoted to concept, characters and plot through to proposals, commissioning and production, Writing Sitcoms covers every aspect needed for success in the UK.

Writing Sitcoms (Writing Handbooks)

BYRNE, JOHN

This book is a practical guide to the process of play-writing, from the original inspiration through plotting, structuring and characterisation to the successful realisation of the idea. This revised edition includes a new chapter covering stage realism.

Writing a Play

Reference

Gooch, Steve

Foreign Language Study & Reference

If you have ever been bamboozled by the use of a foreign word or phrase, or simply want to spice up your vocabulary with some well-chosen bons mots, then this is the book for you. Thousands of foreign words and phrases have been absorbed into the language and are currently used in English, from the everyday (macho, tete-a-tete, spaghetti) to the relatively obscure (ultra vires, auto-da-fe). Faux Pas focuses on familiar terms and expressions as well as those that are new, curious or amusing. Each expression is 'translated', with an indication of its language of origin and pronunciation, a comment on its usefulness and a Pretentiousness Index.

Faux Pas?: A No-nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases from Other Languages

Publishing, Bloomsbury

History & Criticism

Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly set out on a journey of discovery.

100 Must-read Classic Novels (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide S.)

Rennison, Nick

Essays & Correspondence

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