Writing & Bibliography

The point of The Writer's Room interviews is not celebrity or accolades but a deeper...

Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this...

"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect...

A picture book is a book with pictures, but it's so much more than that!...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian...

This beautifully illustrated book charts the life of one of the world's most beloved authors,...

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Anne Lamott's quintessential guide to the craft, and philosophy, of...

What should you look for when you're re-reading a draft? What are the most common...

From Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to Kerouac's On the Road, Cervante's Don Quixote to Whitehead's...

One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history....

Have you ever wondered whether the assortment of books you have at home is a...

"The ultimate synthesis of Rodari's exuberant knowledge, a book of both pedagogy and poetics, poetry...

Some people worry that they don't appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn't written to be...

A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears...

While preparing for an event at the University of Sydney in 2017, a librarian turned...

A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year, Bedside Companion for...

With more than half a million copies in print worldwide and now in this stunning...

From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and...

Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it. Do you know the name...

'In this fascinating book, the historian Jean-Yves Mollier highlights the astonishing diversity of roles assumed...

Lyrical, allusive, sometimes obscure, yet precise, The Pure and the Impure has elicited equal parts...

Unlock your creative potential and write something special Ever dream of writing a book, article,...

Step beyond the familiar tales of The Lord of the Rings and journey into the...

'What follows is not a tidy narrative. I am not a tidy person. These pages...

An electrifying analysis of one legendary giant of twentieth-century literature by another: Beckett on Proust....

An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring...

'I read a book one day and my whole life was changed' ... So confesses...

Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It's...