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Each month Richard Bell compiles the book review pages in Writing Magazine. Here he highlights the best and most helpful books around, listed under: Writing Genres, Fiction and Non-Fiction; Article writing and Freelance Journalism; Writing Your Life; Stage, Screen, Television and Radio; Writing Poetry; Special Interests; The Writing Business; Reference Library; Writers and the Internet.

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THE BASICS OF ENGLISH USAGE (Paperback)
Author: Wynford Hicks
Published by: Routledge
Ref No: M930

Most of us run into small problems with grammar or usage but don’t really have the time to plough through a grammar textbook to find the answers, and what we really need is a simpl…
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THE WRITER'S GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT, CONTRACT AAND LAW (Paperback)
Author: Helen Shay
Published by: How To Books
Ref No: M929

As a freelance writer there can hardly be a single day when you do not have to deal with a legal issue of some kind. There is always, for example, the need to take sensible steps t…
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A CREATIVE WRITING HANDBOOK (Paperback)
Edited by: Derek Neale
Published by: A&C Black
Ref No: M928

Can you ‘learn’ style, or is it just the natural way that you write? Derek Neal and his colleagues certainly believe that you can learn to improve your writing style as well as you…
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WRITING THE LIFE POETIC (Paperback)
Author: Sage Cohen
Published by: David & Charles
Ref No: M927

Living poetically leads to writing poetically,’ says Sage Green in her Writing the Life Poetic. Sage is a widely published, award winning US poet who also teaches poetry and is in …
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HOW TO WRITE YOUR LIFE STORY (Paperback)
Author: Ann Gawthorpe
Published by: Teach Yourself
Ref No: M926

There are many reasons for wanting to write your life story. For some, it is because they believe their lives to be so eventful and interesting that they will appeal to a wide mark…
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ART AND CRAFT OF STORYTELLING (Paperback)
Author: Nancy Lamb
Published by: Writer’s Digest Books
Ref No: M925

‘Storytelling,’ says Nancy Lamb in her Art and Craft of Storytelling, ‘is no more than the imposition of order on imagined experience.’ Her point is that a novel is essentially bas…
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