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Frances Stillman Thames & Hudson
An essential reference tool for every verse writer, this is the most extensive rhyming dictionary available and also has good coverage of slang and colloquial words. Writers' Bookshop |
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£5.99
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Graham King Collins
How to use punctuation Writers' Bookshop |
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£9.99
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James Feeke Writers' Bookshop Writers' Bookshop |
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£15.99
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Robert Ritter Oxford University Press
Essential reference tool for writers. Our Reviewer says that this is ‘nothing less than a compendious (comprehensive but fairly brief) assembly of all kinds of information…if I have a niggling question about correct spelling or meaning, my first port of call is more often the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors'. Writers' Bookshop |
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£35.00
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Catherine Soanes, Angus Stevenson OUP Oxford
Benefits from the huge authority of the Oxford English DictionaryWonderful online resource giving 'a truly astounding picture of the English language as an extraordinary living phenomenon' (Robert McCrum); Over 500,000 words with its huge database and the history behind it. Drawing on 80 million words, with careful collection of new words. The academics' favourite, this Dictionary is particularly good on word origins. Writers' Bookshop |
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T.J. Hulme, T.F. Carmody, J.A. Hulme A & C Black (Childrens books)
A fairly basic paperback dictionary which uses two colours to highlight different forms of the words.
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£20.00
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Unnamed Chambers
Well-organised thesaurus, which draws on its parent the Chambers Dictionary. The innovative design and layout makes selecting an appropriate synonym simple and straightforward and there are over 15,000 headwords and 350,000 synonyms and antonyms in the book. Writers' Bookshop |
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Anu Garg, Suti Garg John Wiley & Sons
An entertaining romp through the world of words, using the ‘word a day’ approach. What do you call the dot on the top of the letter ‘i’? What on earth is a boondoggle? If you can’t wait to find out, this one’s for you. The Observer said it: ‘has been the number one bestseller on amazon.com and the subject of surprisingly emotive feedback’. Writers' Bookshop |
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£7.99
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Jean Saunders, Spencer Hart Writers' Bookshop
The author of more than 80 novels under various pseudonyms provides a practical and encouraging short guide to writing romantic novels. Genre Fiction Writing |
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£35.00
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Catherine E Schwarz, Editors of Chambers, Chambers Editors of, Editors Of Chambers Chambers
Considered by many to be their favourite dictionary, this one has a literary reputation and many writers use it every day. It is the official dictionary used for Scrabble. Revised edition with 10,000 new words in 2004. Writers' Bookshop |
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£12.99
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Laurence J. Peter, Laurence J. Peter Souvenir Press Ltd
Excellent source-book for today's writers and public speakers, described by our reviewer as 'a highly enjoyable romp through the best wit and wisdom of our times' Writers' Bookshop |
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£5.99
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Graham King Collins
Covering sentence construction and grammar, this handy little book helps you to break down the barriers between you and clear communication. Writers' Bookshop |
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£8.99
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Chris Baldick Oxford Paperbacks
Authoritative advice for any writer and a good book to have to hand to refer to. Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms, this book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext and postmodernism. Among the book's features are: extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism; and fully updated terms that have become prominent in the last few years. Writers' Bookshop |
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£40.84
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Britannica Focus Writers' Bookshop |
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£9.95
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P. H. Collin Peter Collin Publishing Ltd
9,000 terms defined, including papermaking, ink, printing and binding machines, typesetting, editing, etc Writers' Bookshop |
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£9.99
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Sir Ernest Gowers, Sidney Greenbaum, Janet Whitcut Penguin
Entertaining classic which provides an authoritative guide to good English. Current usage of vocabulary and style is explained clearly and sections included cover: jargon, clichés, spelling and punctuation; ground rules of grammar; superfluous words, using words correctly and concisely, overuse or misuse; sexist language, the influence of science and technology and American English. Writers' Bookshop |
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£16.99
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Anne Bowling Writer's Digest Books
How to get you work into print in the US, a huge reference with more than 1900 places to get your fiction into print. As well as useful articles, includes pay rates, email addresses and phone numbers, making it the essential handbook for fiction submissions. Writers' Bookshop |
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£6.99
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R.E. Allen Oxford Paperbacks
Described by Keith Waterhouse as an ‘essential quick reference on matters of style’, this handy little A-to-Z dictionary is quite comprehensive and includes useful words such as names. Writers' Bookshop |
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£6.99
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Andre Bernard Robson Books Ltd
Andre Bernard's witty collection of rejections has just been reissued by the publisher, so now you can buy the book for yourself or look at the excerpts on our site. Lust for Life by Irving Stone was described by one publisher as ‘A long, dull novel about an artist.’ It was rejected 16 times, but found a publisher and went on to sell about 25 million copies. Writers' Bookshop |
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£30.00
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Collins Collins
A major dictionary which is strong on clear definitions, derivations, cross-referencing, technical and scientific terms. Revised in 2003 to include thousands of new words, it is rooted in the Bank of English, Collins' 524 million word database. Writers' Bookshop |
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£5.99
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Graham King Collins
How to express what you want to say in clear and grammatically correct English. Writers' Bookshop |
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£17.99
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Thomas Parrish John Wiley & Sons
Parrish and his fictional friend expose the 47 most common mistakes in English, many of which are made by those who should know better. Check out whether you’ve been getting it right. An amusing, sophisticated semi-classic from the US. Writers' Bookshop |
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£20.00
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R. W. Burchfield Oxford University Press
Regarded by many as the bible on how to use the language, this classic work of reference is still an essential handbook for any writer who wants to get it right. Writers' Bookshop |
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Children's creativity
'The creative process is open to all. I don't believe in some magical creative gift, the exclusive possession of a few, nor need it concern big or sophisticated ideas. On the contrary, creativity may depend upon the recognition that our own thoughts and ideas are as valid as anyone else's; something which we knew as children, and which we were taught to unlearn. Read more