A winning business plan is the first step towards creating outstanding performance in a business. As a business owner and/or manager you need an effective business plan to secure finance if required & to improve your business. This practical accessible book will take you step by step through the simple process of creating a plan that really works for you. Your plan will:
- Give funders the confidence to support your business.
- Sharpen your management of any business & its competitive edge.
- Provide a blueprint that can be used on a day-to-day basis to ensure that your business performs to its potential. As important as writing the plan is implementing it. This book also shows how you can actually do this. It will help you to decide where you want to go how you are going to get there & how to actually make it happen.


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This is a handy & colourful illustrated guide to reading writing & understanding ancient Egyptian names epithets titles & phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power & kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. A persons name was a vitally important part of them & the Egyptians were very concerned that their names should be recorded remembered & spoken. Criminals & those who had fallen out of favour could be punished
- wiped out of history
- by having their names destroyed or defaced. The hieroglyphic script provided a beautiful flexible & expressive means to write the names of humans gods & animals. Angela Mc Donald explains the meanings of Egyptian personal names & how they were made up (Rameses = Ra has given birth to him) & demonstrates how they were written in different ways to convey various shades of meaning. Royal & divine names are always given special treatment. The Egyptians were not always formal & nicknames were common. Even the names of pet animals are recorded in tomb paintings.

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Aspiring young writers will love this fun activity book full of hints tips & handy tasks for writing breath-taking stories. The first half of the book is full of writing tips techniques & methods to make every story a masterpiece with helpful activities on coming up with ideas writing from different points of view & creating characters settings & story lines. The second half of the book is full of story themes to write about from murder mysteries to tales from outer space. With lots of lined space to fill each activity comes with suggestions for characters settings & objects to write into the story as well as questions to prompt the imagination. ...

Vasily Grossmans masterpiece Life & Fate" is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor the bestselling author of Stalingrad & Berlin. "A Writer at War" is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front & the lives & deaths of infantrymen tank drivers pilots snipers & civilians alike. Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded in 1941 Grossman became a special correspondent for Red Star the Red Army newspaper. Remarkably he spent three of the following four years at the front observing with a writers eye the most pitiless fighting ever known. Grossman witnessed almost all the major events on the Eastern Front: the appalling defeats & desperate retreats of 1941 the defence of Moscow & fighting in the Ukraine. In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad where he remained during four months of brutal street-fighting. He was present at the battle of Kursk the largest tank engagement in history & as the Red Army advanced he reached Berdichev where his worst fears for his mother & other relations were confirmed. A Jew himself he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned. His supremely powerful report The Hell of Treblinka was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal. "A Writer at War" offers the one outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front & perhaps the best descriptions ever of what Grossman called the ruthless truth of war." ...

The love of place is endemic in English literature from the work of the earliest poets & hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman covering all varieties of the British rural & urban landscape. This book presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions & periods & also illuminates the way in which their work has changed our visual attitudes our taste in landscape & our relation to nature. ...

This book is all about writing for publication. How to plan create & edit work that will sell. How to write a book that you'll be proud of- & which might yet launch you on a new career. Crammed with examples (positive & negative) from successful authors this essential guide is for writers of every genre: fiction & narrative non-fiction literary & commercial adults & children. This guide tells you how to:
- Understand your market
- Plan your novel or memoir
- Develop strong empathetic characters
- Structure & maintain a compelling plot
- Ensure that your prose style is strong enough to carry your story
- Polish your work until it shines





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This bestselling guide to all areas of the media now in its 106th edition has been completely revised & updated. With 100 articles written by successful authors & publishing insiders it advises guides & inspires writers & artists on how to get published. The 2013 edition

Includes:: new articles on amongst other topics memoir writing apps libraries & contains a wealth of practical information on a huge range of topics including copyright finance submitting a manuscript & marketing yourself & your writing. With nearly 4 500 entries in its up-to-date directory of media contacts the Yearbook is an in invaluable companion The one-&-only indispensable guide to the world of writing
- William Boyd Even established writers can feel as though theyre climbing a mountain. Think of the Writers & Artists Yearbook as your sherpa
- Ian Rankin Full of useful stuff. It answered my every question
- JK Rowling




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The annual edition of the best-selling guide to all aspects of the media & how to write & get published the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook is now in its 107th edition. Acknowledged by the publishing industry authors & would-be writers as the indispensable companion to navigating the world of publishing it appears for the first time as an e-book & in print. The 80 articles are reviewed & updated each year to provide inspirational & how-to guidance on writing for newspapers magazines scripts for film radio & TV; advice on writing & submitting plays poetry non-fiction & fiction of all genres
- from fantasy to thrillers to romance; how to contact publishers & agents; managing finances as a writer; negotiating legal issues such as copyright; understanding the editing process; self-publishing & conventional routes; digital & print. Every single one of over 4 500 listings of who to contact where & for which disciplines across the whole media are reviewed & most updated with new listings added every year. The combination of up-to-date listings information & expert advice make the Yearbook a topical & reliable resource; the perfect gift for every writer every year. New articles for the 2014 edition include: Foreword by Martina Cole Writing successful erotic fiction Writing as co-authors by Louise Voss & Mark Edwards authors of thrillers Catch Your Death & Killing Cupid How to be a writer by novelist (The Harbour) & screenwriter Francesca Brill Writing for newspapers by journalist Kate Mead Writing short stories by Tania Hershman Being an agent in the digital age by literary agent Gordon Wise Writng flash fiction by Peter Blair Marketing publicising & selling self-published books by Ben Cameron Smith Publicity What to look for in a self-publishing provider by Jeremy Thomspon of Matador Articles from experts & authors include: Bernard Cornwall on writing historical fiction William Dalrymple on writing about travel David Eldridge on writing for the theatre Katie Fforde on writing romantic fiction Neil Gaiman on writing cross-over fiction Claire Tomalin on writing biographies Simon Winchester on writing non-fiction Benjamin Zephaniah on writing poetry
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Quick Fix For Year Six" provides teachers with a quick SATs revision course for their children. Each book provides activities on basic skills along with activities that help the children practice those skills that get the most marks. Practice questions & answers throughout ensure that children & teachers are fully prepared. A calm tone & Dont Panic boxes keep SATs terror at bay. " Quick Fix For Year Six: Writing" provides carefully planned activities to prepare children for the SATs writing paper. Its quick fix is to teach children to imbed clues in their writing to pick up those top inference marks." ...

With fun colourful exercises & over 100 gold stickers to encourage learning this title revisits the letter-shape exercises covered in I Can Learn I Can Write" as well as introducing upper-case & joined-up letter shapes for the child to trace & copy." ...