102 Words You Never Knew Shakespeare Invented
In this post, we share 102 words you never knew Shakespeare invented.
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P.D. James On Writing
We share writing resources and writing tips at Writers Write. In this post we share P.D. James’advice on writing fiction.
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Book Review – Daughter Of Smoke And Bone
by Laini Taylor (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 9781444722635 Karou is the beautiful girl with the blue hair who doesn’t belong. She doesn’t know where she comes from and nobody will tell her. She lives in two worlds, ‘Elsewhere’ and Earth. She runs errands for Brimstone, who raised her, and lives as a 17-year-old art student in
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12 Inspiring Quotes About Writing
Writers Write is a comprehensive resource for writers. In this post, we share a selection of our favourite quotes about writing.
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Book Review – Entanglement
by Steven Boykey Sidley (Picador Africa) ISBN: 9781770102149 Entanglement is pretentious, boring and badly-written. It is a perfect example of a debut novelist who has somehow become published before he has learnt the craft of novel-writing. Jared is having a mid-life crisis. Trapped in academia, and horrified by the stupidity of people, he is confronted
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Book Review – The Hare With Amber Eyes
by Edmund de Waal (Vintage) ISBN: 9780099539551 With this debut, famous ceramic artist, Edmund de Waal has shown that he is multitalented. He pictures the story of his family history in the 19th century through a collection of netsuke, small Japanese ivory animals and figurines. The book starts in Paris in 1871, where de Waal’s
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Book Review – Great South African Teachers
Great South African Teachers by Jonathan Jansen (Bookstorm and Pan Macmillan) ISBN: 978-1-920434-24-3 Jonathan Jansen is an educationalist and a realist. Everyone has a disaster story about South Africa’s education system. He is outspoken about the state of South African system. Jansen has compiled these stories as a celebration of the teacher who has made
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Book Review – The Sins Of The Father
by Jeffrey Archer (Macmillan) ISBN: 9780230748231 Jeffrey Archer has topped bestseller lists worldwide, with book sales of over 270 million copies. The Sins of the Father is the second in his five-book Clifton Chronicles saga. Written in the perfect family saga tradition, Archer is comfortably in his element. Harry Clifton arrives in the United States in
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Book Review – Killing For The Company
by Chris Ryan (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN 9781444 710298 The first two chapters set the pace of the novel. It begins with a military engagement, filled with action, creating the back story of the protagonist Chet Friedman. The encounters of war have left Chet physically scarred. With an amputated leg he leaves the service and
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Short Story Humour
If you’re looking for more bookish humour, please explore these tags on the website: Writing Humour and Reading Humour
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