A writer's guide to the craft, the marketplace, and the law. It offers advice to help writers reach their goals of...... more

A writer's guide to the craft, the marketplace, and the law. It offers advice to help writers reach their goals of writing and selling articles, essays, and books. It features step-by-step instructions covering various aspects of writing, including how to master the elements of creative nonfiction, and conduct interviews and take accurate notes.

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Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and...... more

Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. It is the third in the "Teach Your Child to Write Good English' series. Information Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically on information writing required by the National Curriculum, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. It is specifically targeted at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14 years). However, it provides a useful aid for students taking GCSE at foundation level. It contains material suitable for SATS examinations, for those taking 11+ entrance examinations and for students learning English as a foreign language. Information Writing teaches the child to recognize the difference between facts and opinions. It concentrates on different aspects of information writing including writing to advise, to inform, to explain and to analyse, review and comment, including examples. It teaches the child how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more. This book is designed as a starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organize it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Information Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Information Writing is ideal for working through at home or as a resource in the classroom.

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A writer's guide to the craft, the marketplace, and the law. It offers advice to help writers reach their goals of...... more

A writer's guide to the craft, the marketplace, and the law. It offers advice to help writers reach their goals of writing and selling articles, essays, and books. It features step-by-step instructions covering various aspects of writing, including how to master the elements of creative nonfiction, and conduct interviews and take accurate notes.

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Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel welcome....... more

Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel welcome. Their book is as candid, upbeat and friendly as the store. It is filled with information that customers ask for most frequently, tips for enhancing your sex life, and reviews of a variety of sex toys. Good Vibrations believes that "there's more sexual pleasure available than most people experience" and "achieving this pleasure should not be difficult, dangerous, or expensive".This is a sex manual of a special sort. It starts with the basics ("Sexual Anatomy 101", "Communications", "Masturbation"), aimed at teaching the reader to receive and give pleasure. Other chapters ("Lubrication", "Creative Touching", "Oral Sex", "All About Vibrators", "Fantasies") describe how to enhance the sexual experience. You'll get answers to questions you never knew to ask: how to keep dildos clean, what is "packing", what is the appeal of S/M, for example. A substantial chapter on "Safer Sex" offers techniques both expected (use a condom) and unexpected (put it on him using your mouth). Quotations from real people about their sexual pleasures lend interest and eroticism. Explicit line drawings show sex between male-female, male-male and female-female partners, as well as solitary acts with vibrators. "In our fantasies, we dream of this book with its cracked spine and well-thumbed pages lying on your nightstand next to your vibrator, lube, massage oil and condoms", write the authors. For education and entertainment, this book is a winner. --Joan Price

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Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and...... more

Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. It is the third in the "Teach Your Child to Write Good English' series. Information Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically on information writing required by the National Curriculum, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. It is specifically targeted at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14 years). However, it provides a useful aid for students taking GCSE at foundation level. It contains material suitable for SATS examinations, for those taking 11+ entrance examinations and for students learning English as a foreign language. Information Writing teaches the child to recognize the difference between facts and opinions. It concentrates on different aspects of information writing including writing to advise, to inform, to explain and to analyse, review and comment, including examples. It teaches the child how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more. This book is designed as a starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organize it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Information Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Information Writing is ideal for working through at home or as a resource in the classroom.

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About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan...... more

About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan Jones, and her mother was an actress. As her friends took up their various university places, Sadie worked in a variety of jobs. After travelling, she settled in London and spent several years as a screenwriter, before writing her first novel, The Outcast. Sadie is married and has two children.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk Interview with Sadie JonesWhat is The Outcast about?The Outcast is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It is an everyday tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story.What inspired you to write it?The idea of a boy coming out of prison and trying to fit into a community that is itself corrupt was the first thing that came to me. I wanted to write an Oedipal story, with iconic characters, about what the nature of what it is to belong, and injustice. I set it in the fifties because I have always been very attracted to the books and films of that time.Who are your literary influences?Its difficult to think in terms of being influenced, because when you write you try to find your own voice and forget those of other writers, but I must in some way be a product of books Ive loved. My favourite writers are Hemingway, Capote, Salinger, McEwan and Dostoyevsky.If you could recommend just one "must-read book" to anyone, what would it be and why?It would be The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky, because it is a book that tells a riveting story and is profoundly insightful about human nature. Dostoyevsky has an undeserved reputation of being sort of turgid, but nothing could be further from the truth of this book. He relishes the events he discloses and has no prissiness he gets in the mud with his characters. What top tips do you have for anyone looking to write their first book?Its very hard; I only know what works for me, which is planning, structure and hard work. I have found that whenever I write thinking Ill sort some lingering doubt out later, I generally run into trouble. If you cant answer every single question about your story, then people will be able to tell. Also, try not to get too tied up in whether or not its any good, or what will happen to it when its finished all of that can be paralysing. Reviews for The OutcastAn assured voice, a riveting story, and an odd, wrenchingly sympathetic protagonist. I would never have imagined this was a first novel.Lionel ShriverIn the tradition of ATONEMENT and REMAINS OF THE DAY but in her own singularly arresting voice, Sadie Jones conjures up the straight-laced, church-going, secretly abusive middle class of 1950s England. The Outcast is a passionate and deeply suspenseful novel about what happens to those who break the rules, and what happens to those who keep them. I loved reading this wonderful debut. Margot LiveseyI much admired The Outcast. Sadie Jones tells her story using minute details to convey the apparent ordinariness of her characters' lives. But from the choreography of these walking, smiling, drinking people, from their emotional repression and their children's deprivation, she conjures an atmosphere of menace and suspense that erupts into violence and tragedy. It is an impressive debut for this talented new novelist. Michael HolroydSadie Jones is an important new voice. She writes in beautiful prose of terrible events, demonstrating how love denied brings brutal consequences. She conjures the repressive social climate of the 1950s with awful accuracy, and explores the hearts and minds of young people with forensic skill. A great stylist and fine storyteller.Joan BakewellOne of Radio 4s Book at Bedtime reads for February, Jones story is imbued with brooding atmosphere and drama. Understated and elegantly narrated with attention to period detail, this is a gripping love story with a twist. If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, youll love this. Harpers Bazaar (Feb issue)A wonderfully assured first novel. GuardianThe prose is elegant and spare, but the story it reveals is raw and explosive Devastatingly good. Daily MailThe Outcast grips from page one Jones has captured the stultifying morals and mores of Fifties English middle-class life with satisfying accuracy. Publishing NewsSet in post WWII suburban London, this superb debut novel charts the downward spiral and tortured redemption of a young man shattered by loss. The war is over, and Lewis Aldridge is getting used to having his father, Gilbert, back in the house. Things hum along splendidly until Lewiss mother drowns, casting the 10-year-old into deep isolationJoness prose is fluid, and Lewiss suffering comes across as achingly real. Publishers WeeklyA confident, suspenseful and affecting first novel, delivered in cool, precise, distinctive prose. Kirkus

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Luca Turin was born with a powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the most refined perfumes to the air on the...... more

Luca Turin was born with a powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the most refined perfumes to the air on the subways. When he began to write reviews of fragrances, everything changed. The secret world of scent creation opened up, and Turin discovered something astonishing: No one understands how our noses work.

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Product Description: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work...... more

Product Description: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don't know where to start?The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that its not about better ideas, its about actually doing the work.Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.Do the Work may be just what you need to get out of your own way.For other titles like Do the Work, visit thedominoproject.com for more information.Robert T. Kiyosaki Reviews Do the WorkRobert T. Kiyosaki is an investor, entrepreneur, and educator whose perspectives on money and investing fly in the face of conventional wisdom. His book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, ranks as the longest-running bestseller on all four of the lists that report to Publisher's Weekly--the New York Times, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today--and was named "USA Today's #1 Money Book" two years in a row. Read his review of Steven Pressfield's Do the Work:Once again another brilliant book from Steven. Do the Work gives you step-by-step instructions on how to overcome and conquer Resistance--the biggest enemy of them all. The gloves come off! Do the Work explains who and what your allies are and how to embrace and utilize them in your creative life or in your day-to-day situations. The points and steps in this book makes it possible for anyone to go and achieve what they truly are striving for--may it be writing a book, a play, or starting a new business. A must read for anyone who wants to get ahead and out of their own way. Steven has done it again. --Robert T. KiyosakiA Q&A with Steven PressfieldQuestion: What is the distinction between Do the Work and War of Art, the book where you first introduced Resistance? Does Do the Work take it a step further? Steven Pressfield:Do the Work is structured to take the reader from A to Z. If the reader has a project they want to start or complete, such as a new business they want to open or a book they want to write, Do the Work is designed to take them from starting to shipping to hitting all the predictable resistance points along the way. I know youre familiar with these moments; The beginning, the middle, and all the moments in between just before you ship and then just after you ship. Do the Work guides you from the start of the project and takes you all the way through.Its about getting off your behind and starting something. And Seth Godin writes about this, that once you start, you have to finish; you dont get off the hook half way through. I recently got an email from a guy who said, "Help. Im stuck." He was in a class and he had to write a screenplay and he was a quarter of the way through. Normally I would cheer him on, but just for fun, I gave him a little program to do; I put on my instructor voice and said, Do this, do that, do this, do that. It worked because right away he got over a couple speed bumps and took it all the way to the finish line. He loved it! Id always been too shy to do that before, but I tried the assertive tone of voice and it really worked--he responded really well to it. So I thought, let me try that tone of voice in Do the Work.Question: What did you tell him to do?Steven Pressfield: One of the first things I told him to do was to banish the self-censor. I could tell he was frozen, worrying, "Is this going to be good? Is this going to be perfect? So I told him, "Take the next five days and write for two hours everyday. I dont care what else is in your life--banish it. When you write for those two hours, start on minute one and dont think for one second all the way through until minute 120. Just write, dont self censor. Dont do anything." That really seemed to get him moving and gave him permission to not be paralyzed with seeking perfection. Continue reading our interview with Steven Pressfield

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Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel welcome....... more

Good Vibrations is a bright, convivial, women-owned, sex-toy store in San Francisco, where customers of both genders and all sexual orientations feel welcome. Their book is as candid, upbeat and friendly as the store. It is filled with information that customers ask for most frequently, tips for enhancing your sex life, and reviews of a variety of sex toys. Good Vibrations believes that "there's more sexual pleasure available than most people experience" and "achieving this pleasure should not be difficult, dangerous, or expensive".This is a sex manual of a special sort. It starts with the basics ("Sexual Anatomy 101", "Communications", "Masturbation"), aimed at teaching the reader to receive and give pleasure. Other chapters ("Lubrication", "Creative Touching", "Oral Sex", "All About Vibrators", "Fantasies") describe how to enhance the sexual experience. You'll get answers to questions you never knew to ask: how to keep dildos clean, what is "packing", what is the appeal of S/M, for example. A substantial chapter on "Safer Sex" offers techniques both expected (use a condom) and unexpected (put it on him using your mouth). Quotations from real people about their sexual pleasures lend interest and eroticism. Explicit line drawings show sex between male-female, male-male and female-female partners, as well as solitary acts with vibrators. "In our fantasies, we dream of this book with its cracked spine and well-thumbed pages lying on your nightstand next to your vibrator, lube, massage oil and condoms", write the authors. For education and entertainment, this book is a winner. --Joan Price

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Luca Turin was born with a powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the most refined perfumes to the air on the...... more

Luca Turin was born with a powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the most refined perfumes to the air on the subways. When he began to write reviews of fragrances, everything changed. The secret world of scent creation opened up, and Turin discovered something astonishing: No one understands how our noses work.

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About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan...... more

About the Author ~ Sadie JonesSadie Jones was born in London. She grew up in a creative environment: her father is the Jamaican poet and screenwriter Evan Jones, and her mother was an actress. As her friends took up their various university places, Sadie worked in a variety of jobs. After travelling, she settled in London and spent several years as a screenwriter, before writing her first novel, The Outcast. Sadie is married and has two children.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk Interview with Sadie JonesWhat is The Outcast about?The Outcast is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It is an everyday tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story.What inspired you to write it?The idea of a boy coming out of prison and trying to fit into a community that is itself corrupt was the first thing that came to me. I wanted to write an Oedipal story, with iconic characters, about what the nature of what it is to belong, and injustice. I set it in the fifties because I have always been very attracted to the books and films of that time.Who are your literary influences?Its difficult to think in terms of being influenced, because when you write you try to find your own voice and forget those of other writers, but I must in some way be a product of books Ive loved. My favourite writers are Hemingway, Capote, Salinger, McEwan and Dostoyevsky.If you could recommend just one "must-read book" to anyone, what would it be and why?It would be The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoyevsky, because it is a book that tells a riveting story and is profoundly insightful about human nature. Dostoyevsky has an undeserved reputation of being sort of turgid, but nothing could be further from the truth of this book. He relishes the events he discloses and has no prissiness he gets in the mud with his characters. What top tips do you have for anyone looking to write their first book?Its very hard; I only know what works for me, which is planning, structure and hard work. I have found that whenever I write thinking Ill sort some lingering doubt out later, I generally run into trouble. If you cant answer every single question about your story, then people will be able to tell. Also, try not to get too tied up in whether or not its any good, or what will happen to it when its finished all of that can be paralysing. Reviews for The OutcastAn assured voice, a riveting story, and an odd, wrenchingly sympathetic protagonist. I would never have imagined this was a first novel.Lionel ShriverIn the tradition of ATONEMENT and REMAINS OF THE DAY but in her own singularly arresting voice, Sadie Jones conjures up the straight-laced, church-going, secretly abusive middle class of 1950s England. The Outcast is a passionate and deeply suspenseful novel about what happens to those who break the rules, and what happens to those who keep them. I loved reading this wonderful debut. Margot LiveseyI much admired The Outcast. Sadie Jones tells her story using minute details to convey the apparent ordinariness of her characters' lives. But from the choreography of these walking, smiling, drinking people, from their emotional repression and their children's deprivation, she conjures an atmosphere of menace and suspense that erupts into violence and tragedy. It is an impressive debut for this talented new novelist. Michael HolroydSadie Jones is an important new voice. She writes in beautiful prose of terrible events, demonstrating how love denied brings brutal consequences. She conjures the repressive social climate of the 1950s with awful accuracy, and explores the hearts and minds of young people with forensic skill. A great stylist and fine storyteller.Joan BakewellOne of Radio 4s Book at Bedtime reads for February, Jones story is imbued with brooding atmosphere and drama. Understated and elegantly narrated with attention to period detail, this is a gripping love story with a twist. If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, youll love this. Harpers Bazaar (Feb issue)A wonderfully assured first novel. GuardianThe prose is elegant and spare, but the story it reveals is raw and explosive Devastatingly good. Daily MailThe Outcast grips from page one Jones has captured the stultifying morals and mores of Fifties English middle-class life with satisfying accuracy. Publishing NewsSet in post WWII suburban London, this superb debut novel charts the downward spiral and tortured redemption of a young man shattered by loss. The war is over, and Lewis Aldridge is getting used to having his father, Gilbert, back in the house. Things hum along splendidly until Lewiss mother drowns, casting the 10-year-old into deep isolationJoness prose is fluid, and Lewiss suffering comes across as achingly real. Publishers WeeklyA confident, suspenseful and affecting first novel, delivered in cool, precise, distinctive prose. Kirkus

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Product Description: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work...... more

Product Description: Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don't know where to start?The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that its not about better ideas, its about actually doing the work.Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.Do the Work may be just what you need to get out of your own way.For other titles like Do the Work, visit thedominoproject.com for more information.Robert T. Kiyosaki Reviews Do the WorkRobert T. Kiyosaki is an investor, entrepreneur, and educator whose perspectives on money and investing fly in the face of conventional wisdom. His book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, ranks as the longest-running bestseller on all four of the lists that report to Publisher's Weekly--the New York Times, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today--and was named "USA Today's #1 Money Book" two years in a row. Read his review of Steven Pressfield's Do the Work:Once again another brilliant book from Steven. Do the Work gives you step-by-step instructions on how to overcome and conquer Resistance--the biggest enemy of them all. The gloves come off! Do the Work explains who and what your allies are and how to embrace and utilize them in your creative life or in your day-to-day situations. The points and steps in this book makes it possible for anyone to go and achieve what they truly are striving for--may it be writing a book, a play, or starting a new business. A must read for anyone who wants to get ahead and out of their own way. Steven has done it again. --Robert T. KiyosakiA Q&A with Steven PressfieldQuestion: What is the distinction between Do the Work and War of Art, the book where you first introduced Resistance? Does Do the Work take it a step further? Steven Pressfield:Do the Work is structured to take the reader from A to Z. If the reader has a project they want to start or complete, such as a new business they want to open or a book they want to write, Do the Work is designed to take them from starting to shipping to hitting all the predictable resistance points along the way. I know youre familiar with these moments; The beginning, the middle, and all the moments in between just before you ship and then just after you ship. Do the Work guides you from the start of the project and takes you all the way through.Its about getting off your behind and starting something. And Seth Godin writes about this, that once you start, you have to finish; you dont get off the hook half way through. I recently got an email from a guy who said, "Help. Im stuck." He was in a class and he had to write a screenplay and he was a quarter of the way through. Normally I would cheer him on, but just for fun, I gave him a little program to do; I put on my instructor voice and said, Do this, do that, do this, do that. It worked because right away he got over a couple speed bumps and took it all the way to the finish line. He loved it! Id always been too shy to do that before, but I tried the assertive tone of voice and it really worked--he responded really well to it. So I thought, let me try that tone of voice in Do the Work.Question: What did you tell him to do?Steven Pressfield: One of the first things I told him to do was to banish the self-censor. I could tell he was frozen, worrying, "Is this going to be good? Is this going to be perfect? So I told him, "Take the next five days and write for two hours everyday. I dont care what else is in your life--banish it. When you write for those two hours, start on minute one and dont think for one second all the way through until minute 120. Just write, dont self censor. Dont do anything." That really seemed to get him moving and gave him permission to not be paralyzed with seeking perfection. Continue reading our interview with Steven Pressfield

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Sometimes, a successful first novel acts as an unchangeable blueprint for successive books by the author, with everything set in aspic, never again catching the...... more

Sometimes, a successful first novel acts as an unchangeable blueprint for successive books by the author, with everything set in aspic, never again catching the fire of that first book. Danny Leighs The Monsters of Gramercy Park is a total refutation of that syndrome: not only is Leighs second novel as different as could be imagined from its predecessor, his much-acclaimed debut The Greatest Gift, its almost equally successful, and ratchets up a considerable amount of tension after a deceptively slow-burning start.The Greatest Gift described, in fascinating detail, the life of a suicide in the telescoped moment before his falling body struck the ground; here, Leighs protagonist, successful US crime writer Lizabeth Greene, is having a bad time excoratingly bad reviews are shaking her faith in her own abilities, not to mention hurting her sales. She needs to re-charge her batteries but how? The answer lies in an unexpected source. Lizabeth will write the biography of the real thing: a criminal psychopath. She chooses imprisoned murderer Wilson Velez, who (despite his incarceration) appears to be running lethal criminal enterprises from his cell, via his savage underlings. The theme of a dangerous killer whose activity continues from within a prison cell is the first of several echoes of Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lector but this canny thriller is none the worse for that. The title of Leigh's book is the childrens novel being written by the terrifying Velez, which he insists Lizabeth ensures publication of before he helps her. But the price she must pay turns out to be considerably more extreme. Apart from the ever-accelerating tension of the plot, one of the keenest notes sounded here is our uncertainty about Velez: is he an unalloyed monster? Or something more complex? Stick with that over-leisurely opening, and youll find yourself deeply engaged with a disturbing narrative. --Barry Forshaw

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Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps: Series 9 (2 Discs) Featuring: Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith & Natalie Casey | Format: DVD | Rating: 15 years and over ...... more

Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps: Series 9 (2 Discs) Featuring: Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith & Natalie Casey | Format: DVD | Rating: 15 years and over ( Not yet reviewed ) Write a review >>£12.99 Free delivery In StockSold by Play.com Usually dispatched within 24 hours. BUYAlso available new (4) from £17.99 | Have one to sell? Sell it here ShareShareEmail to a friendDescription Special Features Technical Details Customer Reviews (0) Delivery & Returns As the series opens, Janet and Louise have both left Runcorn and Gaz, left paralysed by the accident at the end of Series 8, struggles to come to terms with how his life can move on. Donna realises her responsibility and helps Gaz to deal with his disability, and the two of them cope with Janet leaving together. When Tim's sister, the feisty, young Cassie, arrives at the pub, surely it means trouble? Will Gaz be able to walk again, will he be happy to go back to his old life in Runcorn, or will he too see that there is life on the outside?

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About the Author ~ Daniel ClayDaniel Clay is thirty seven years old and married with no children. He lives in Hampshire in the UK.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk...... more

About the Author ~ Daniel ClayDaniel Clay is thirty seven years old and married with no children. He lives in Hampshire in the UK.Exclusive Amazon.co.uk Interview with Daniel Clay What is Broken. A Novel about?Part narrated by Skunk Cunningham, an eleven-year-old girl in a coma, Broken. A Novel tells the intertwining stories of three families who live in a suburban square in the south of England. The Oswalds Bob and his five daughters are the neighbors from hell. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and intimidate anyone unlucky enough to be anywhere near them, including Rick Buckley, a geeky but harmless nineteen-year-old boy who lives with his mum and dad on the other side of the square. Humiliated publicly by the Oswalds in the early stages of the novel, Rick descends into madness and becomes the Broken of the title. Skunk, her brother Jed and their new friend Dillon become fascinated with whats happened to Broken which, in turn, leads to Skunk ending up in the coma from which she narrates the story. What inspired you to write it?My starting point were the family structures in Harper Lees To Kill A Mockingbird and how much society has changed in the eighty or so years since the events depicted in that novel took place. Once I had that starting point, I wanted to write about life as I saw it at the time I was writing mad and cruel and random, yet always capable of surprising you, and always somehow worthwhile. Who are your literary influences?As a teenager, James Herbert and Stephen King were huge influences because they created characters I believed in and cared about. Since then, Ive tended to love individual novels rather than particular authors. Orwells 1984, Ken Keseys One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Mark Haddons The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time, and Kem Nunns Tapping The Source are all novels Ive now read several times (and wish I had written). If you could recommend just one "must-read book" to anyone, what would it be and why?Clive Barkers Weaveworld. The same as the Harry Potter series, it has that knack of layering the fantastical over everyday life, but its darker and sexier and tinged with more horror as well. A magical read. What top tips do you have for anyone looking to write their first book?Write for the thrill of it and write for yourself. Try to surprise yourself. Try to shock yourself. Never try to write something that doesnt excite you right from the outset. Never try to write what you think an editor or agent wants you to write. Think about how you can grab a readers attention and then not let them put your work down. Look at the writers who do this to you and compare their style to your style. Try to understand why theyre different. Try to do something about it. Read as widely as you can. Polish as hard as you can. And, most of all, have fun, enjoy yourself, challenge yourself, and never let the rejections stop you from writing. Reviews for Broken. A NovelWe are not the only ones to love this book. Check out a selection of reviews below. As you can see a lot of the reviews have been written by our own Amazon customers. These are reviewers from our Amazon Vine programme. Scroll down to the customer review section to see all of the reviews submitted.Bold, prescient, engaging, and oddly touching. GuardianA stunning first book Id be amazed if it doesn't get short-listed at awards time. Murray, Amazon Vine top reviewer Daniel Clay has managed to weave a tale that simultaneously highlights some of the more disturbing aspects of contemporary British society whilst capturing some of the sweet innocence of a childs mind... gripping. H. Pierce, Amazon Vine top reviewer Reminiscent of Angela's Ashes set in the present day there is humour and warmth, and a surprisingly upbeat, satisfying ending. I think this is probably the best new fiction I have read in the last year. P. M. Fernandez, Amazon Vine top reviewer This book grabbed me and I could not put it down It will make you laugh, cry and gasp with horror. Kehs, Amazon Vine top reviewer Beautifully written I couldn't put the book down. It contains humour and is incredibly touching. I will certainly be looking out for Daniel Clays next book. Recommended to all. SM, Amazon Vine top reviewer

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