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  • Arts Reviews

    And How to Write Them

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    Whether your passion is film, music, books, visual arts, or the stage, you can get closer to it as a reviewer and establish a career in one of the most influential roles open to a writer. A great review can be read by millions, and writing it calls for a high degree of skill. Based on a lifelong passion, packed into a few hundred words, and often written in less than an hour, a review makes heavy ... Read more

    $19.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Historical Fiction

    A Writers' and Artists' Companion

    by Celia Brayfield, Duncan Sprott ...
    Series series Writers’ and Artists’ Companions
    Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an invaluable companion for a writer working in this challenging and popular literary genre, whether your period is Ancient Rome or World War II.PART 1 includes reflections on the genre and provides a short history of historical fiction.PART 2 contains guest contributions from Margaret Atwood, Ian Beck, Madison Smartt Bell, Ronan ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Writing Black Beauty

    Anna Sewell, the Creation of a Novel, and the Story of Animal Rights

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    The story of a remarkable woman who wrote a novel that not only became a classic, but also changed the way human society views and treats animals.Born in 1829 to a young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell grew up in poverty in London. She was fourteen when she fell and injured her ankle, which left her permanently disabled. Rejecting the life of a Victorian invalid, she developed an extraordinary empathy ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists

    Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' ViceIn London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Deep France

    A Writer's Year in the Bearn

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France.Deep France is the diary of a writer's year in a tiny French village, trying ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The House on the Strand

    by Daphne du Maurier ...
    Series Book 125 - Virago Modern Classics
    FROM THE BESTSELLING WRITER OF REBECCA'The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier . . . ' NEW YORK TIMES'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTERWhen Dick Young's friend, Professor Magnus Lane offers him an escape from his troubles i... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

    by Solvej Balle ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    The fourth installment of Balle’s expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western worldWe’re a little more than halfway through Balle’s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle’s riveting project continues to wring ever more fascinating ... Read more

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize

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