Drawing from his own experiences as a novelist & creative writing tutor Richard Skinner takes you through the process of writing a novel from ways of generating ideas & beginning the actual process of writing through to producing a final draft. The book is a both a guide & an aid to writing a novel. The first part
- the guide
- offers solid practical suggestions for writers who are just getting started on a long piece of fiction. The second part of the book
- the aid
- operates more like a troubleshooting gallery for those who are well into a long piece of fiction. Eschewing formulas & prescriptions Skinner encourages readers to think differently about issues as they arise by means of lateral thinking oblique strategies aphorisms "ations & offers a range of ideas about the art of writing that stretches beyond the bounds of fiction.



...

The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges' short stories Fictions" is a wildly original & influential collection of fantastic tales translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in " Penguin Modern Classics". Jorge Luis Borges' " Fictions" introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here that we find the astonishing accounts of ' Funes the Memorious' the man who can forget nothing; ' Pierre Menard Author of the " Quixote"' who recreates Miguel de Cervantes' epic word-for-word; a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in ' The Lottery in Babylon'; the mysterious world of ' Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius' which seems to be supplanting our own; & the ' Library of Babel' which contains every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories & the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries gaucho knife fights & dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later it remains endlessly intriguing. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. A poet critic & short story writer he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim along with Kafka & Joyce to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. If you enjoyed " Fictions" you might like Italo Calvino's " The Complete Cosmicomics" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". " Hurley's efforts at retranslating Borges are not anything but heroic. His visions are clear elegant crystalline". (Ilan Savans " The Times Literary Supplement"). " One of the most memorable artists of our age". (Mario Vargas Llosa)." ...

Fiddle Time Joggers is a first book of very easy pieces for violin with open string pieces & tunes using the finger pattern 0-1-23-4. There are well-known tunes & original pieces from rock to calypso using simple slurs & a few dynamics. Notice-boards introduce new notes & rhythms & there are easy duets to play. The book comes with CD providing performances of all the pieces with accompaniments using piano & other instruments. A separate book of straightforward piano accompaniments is available. ...

Fiddle Time Runners with CD is a second book of easy pieces for violin using finger patterns 0-12-3-4 & 0-1-2-34. It



...

Fiddle Time Starters is a great beginner book for the budding violinist. Carefully paced to suit young learners it supports players through the important early stages step by step-from how to hold your instrument & bow through basic notation to exciting pieces in a range of styles. With plenty of entertaining illustrations & a CD to play along to with Fiddle Time Starters it really is fun to play! ...

A book which gives scientific proof of the paranormal. Psychic activity remote viewing the power of prayer & homeopathy are all discussed in this book which The Ecologist called one of the most thought-provoking reads of the year & which has already gained a almost cult following. Sales Handles: * A highly readable scientific detective story which reveals how the Field a vast cobweb of energy connecting everything in the universe past & present is responsible for many of the most profound human mysteries How psychics can read the future & the past; how remote viewing works -- & how such techniques have been used by the CIA; how energy healing works; why homeopathy works & all sorts of other mysteries are explored by the frontier scientists Lynne Mc Taggart has interviewed. ...

The modern visitor to Devon travelling west into the region is greeted by a panorama of the high ground & rocky outcrops of Dartmoor. In a county renowned for its rolling hills Dartmoors high moors topped by granite tors preside over the massive folds of its peripheral valleys incised by the fast-moving moorland rivers & streams as they flow towards the hinterl&. Dartmoor was designated as one of Englands first National Parks in 1951. It is this natural beauty & tranquil rural landscape that initially attracts visitors but a fuller appreciation of this landscape is enhanced by knowledge of its cultural past. Dartmoor is southern Englands largest upland tract often promoted as Englands last wilderness. Nevertheless it is a maintained landscape. Its management began with traditional forms of hill farming & woodland management in the Neolithic & continues to the present day. The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor describes & narrates Dartmoors landscape history from 4000 BC to the present analysing & summarising archaeological & historical studies from the 19th century onwards. A brief section describes Dartmoors geological shape. Then its prehistoric settlement Romano-British organisation medieval character & early tin industry are described in turn. Next Dartmoors 19th- & 20th-century industrial landscape & heritage (tin copper silver-lead & China clay) & how they co-existed with traditional forms of upland farming are described. Subsidiary industries (peat gunpowder mills ice works & tramways) & the moors use for military training bring the narrative up to the present. A concluding summary assesses Dartmoors history & ponders its future. ...

Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon & grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this beautiful & evocative memoir she recounts her life within a loving extended family & small but close-knit community. From early memories of her father bringing home oranges during the war to the simple beauty of a field full of butterflies on a hot summer's day Rosemary's stunningly elegant narrative captures the love & losses hopes & struggles traditions & prejudices that bound her to her family & helped her adapt to a fast-changing world. Rosemary's story is a moving testament to a forgotten world & a rapidly disappearing way of life. ...

A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 & Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky Bernie acquires a boat & a beautiful companion & quits the isl&. But the US Navy has other ideas & soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar
- a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning he is flown back to Berlin & yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder. The job is simple: he is to meet & greet POWs returning to Germany & to look out for one in particular a French war criminal & member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man & deal with him in their own ruthless way. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him
- in a way he could never have foreseen. Bernie Gunther's seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced & quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. Set in Cuba a Soviet POW camp Paris & Berlin & ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the Fifties Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.

...

We are very proud (and a bit wary) to announce the publication of The Spiderwick Chronicles. But beware the faeries will use all their power to stop you from reading these books. Book 1 of The Spiderwick Chronicles in which Mallory Simon & Jared get acquainted with their new home but find many unexpected things. It all starts when Jared Grace find their great uncles book Arthur Spiderwicks Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You." & realises that are not alone in their new house. Now the Grace kids want to tell their story but the faeries will do everything to stop them... Its up to you to spread the word about their discovery. But heed their warnings wear some red turn your clothes inside out
- all anti-faerie devices
- & get ready to enter a world that you never knew existed... Its closer than you think!"

...