Life in Every Word: The TLS Guide to Great Writing - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0008836086 ISBN 13: 9780008836085

Publisher: TLS Books, 2027

Synopsis

A practical guide to great writing by some of the finest writers of our age, from Alan Hollinghurst to Mary Beard

Great writing is timeless. For anyone who wants to be a better writer, a more thoughtful reader, or a sharper thinker, the team at the Times Literary Supplement, one of Britain’s oldest-running literary magazines, are here to help. Practical, funny and smart, distilling decades of writing triumphs and catastrophes, the guide includes:

- Alan Hollinghurst on how to write fiction

- Mary Beard on how to find your subject

- Blake Morrison on how to write honest memoir

- Mary-Kay Wilmers on how to write women

- Ian Hamilton on how to write crime

- Martin Amis on how to be funny

- And many more.

This elegant masterclass lifts the lid on one of the most complex and simplest of acts: putting words on a blank page. Great writing starts here.

About this title

About the Author

Camille Ralphs is a poet and critic, and an editor at the Times Literary Supplement. Her debut poetry collection, After You Were, I Am was recently published by Faber and McSweeney’s, and was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, including the New York Review of Books, Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Edition details

• Publisher: TLS Books
• Publication date: 2027
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008836086
• ISBN 13: 9780008836085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Ralphs Camille