Reading

Thinking of setting, or perhaps joining, a writers’ group? This book has a good deal of practical advice on ...

A study of the autobiographical genre including memoir writing. Anyone working in this genre cannot rely only on ...

This book features fifty English words (most of them very common) each with brief details of its history, plus ...

MJ Trow's book sets the bad language of the war in its historical context (it is subtitled Rude Slang of the ...

Bending Genre is a collection of essays on the art of creative non-fiction which is fact based writing that uses ...

Failure, A Writers Life is a catalogue of literary monstrosities. Its loosely organized vignettes and convolutes ...

OK – the book that charts the rise of the word OK from its inception to its current standing as perhaps the most ...

This new book on English usage is complete with its seventy test-yourself questions. It examines most of the ...

Writers, published works, genres, movements in the literary world all featured in this companion. For important ...

This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why ...

Fantasy fiction is created by imagining impossible things, a technique at the heart of all the genres that can be ...

So You Think You Can Spell? is a great way to check your spelling skills and to widen your vocabulary in the ...