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MY LIBRARY - For Me These Are The Essentials
Dorothea Brande – Becoming a Writer:
So you think you want to be a writer? By the end of this book you’ll
know whether or not you’ve got the staying power.
John Braine – How to Write a novel:
Reissued after decades of being out of print. The best guide ever to getting
that first (or second or third) novel out of your head, and onto the
page.
Stella Whitelaw – Writing the Short Short Story:
This little book demonstrates the framework of any good story. Equally
useful for tips and techniques on how to keep the creative juices flowing.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary:
Some people advise getting the largest dictionary you can afford. If the
word you want isn’t in this one, then you are intoxicated with
the exuberance of your own verbosity.
CURRENT FAVOURITES
Lynne Rees – The Oven House (Bluechrome):
A beautifully seductive little book. Utterly, totally, completely un-putdownable.
The Oven House starts with the end of the affair, goes back to the beginning
and works through to a heart-warming end.
Akira Yoshimura – Shipwrecks (Cannongate):
This book is written with the same intensity of language as Hemmingway’s ‘The
Old Man and the Sea.’ It is a coming of age novel of a youth growing up
in a remote village in Japan whose family and friends make their living by fishing
and by luring passing ships onto the rocks that surround the bay. Ashima appears
to be ‘showing’ the story even when he’s ‘telling’.
Very clever.
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