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BOOK OF THE MONTH
Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (A&C
Black)
Need a publisher’s address? They’re all in here. Useful for getting
jobs in the publishing industry.
Essential books for proofreaders
You’ll need a modern, up-to-date dictionary – publishers tend to use Chambers or Oxford, and either of these two will be ideal for proofreading and copy-editing. There are several editions of each dictionary available, but these seem to be the most popular among publishers.
The Chambers English dictionary (Chambers)
One of the most popular dictionaries around.
The Concise Oxford dictionary (OUP)
The classic choice.
Essential books for copy editors
You’ll need a modern, up-to-date dictionary – publishers tend to use Chambers or Oxford, and either of these two will be ideal for proofreading and copy-editing. There are several editions of each dictionary available, but these seem to be the most popular among publishers.
The Chambers English dictionary (Chambers)
One of the most popular dictionaries around.
The
Concise Oxford dictionary (OUP)
The classic choice.
Recommended books for proofreaders
Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (A&C
Black)
Need a publisher’s address? They’re all in here. Useful for getting
jobs in the publishing industry.
New Hart’s Rules (OUP)
This pocket-sized book is an invaluable ‘style guide’, giving you
handy hints on everything from bullet points to brackets!
Fowler’s Modern English Usage (OUP)
A fascinating read which tells writers and editors how to use English
in every situation today.
New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (OUP)
A useful addition to your standard dictionary.
Recommended
books for copy editors
Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (A&C
Black)
Need a publisher’s address? They’re all in here. Useful for getting
jobs in the publishing industry.
New Hart’s Rules (OUP)
This pocket-sized book is an invaluable ‘style guide’, giving you
handy hints on everything from bullet points to brackets!
Fowler’s Modern English Usage (OUP)
A fascinating read which tells writers and editors how to use English in every situation today.
New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (OUP)
A useful addition to your standard dictionary.
Buy now
Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook, Judith Butcher
(CUP)
A very valuable reference guide for copy-editors.
Nice
to have!
Bingham - Writers and Artists Yearbook Guide to Getting Published
"Invaluable to writers of all kinds" Mark Le Fanu, The Society of Authors Written emphatically from the author's point of view, this is an expert guide to the process of getting published, from submitting your work and finding an agent, to working with a publishing house and understanding the book trade.
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By Hook or By Crook
Every page of Crystal's book contains some linguistic curiosity or flight of fancy. He should go walkie-talkie more often. Another 100 books of this kind would not be too many.' Financial Times '
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A Little Book of Language
In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling.
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Profile
Books)
Possibly the only book ever to make punctuation genuinely funny. Highly recommended and a good read.
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Oxford a - z of grammar and punctuation (Oxford university press)
Readers of all levels will find this guide essential. Giving examples of real usage, this book provides the basic information about grammar and punctuation that people need on a day-to-day basis.
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Penguin guide to punctuation (penguin)
The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work.
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The adventure of English (sceptre)
'Bragg is an expert translator in areas that academics find difficult to popularise...he produces a pithy, accessible narrative.'
(Guardian )
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longman guide to English usage (longman)
A guide to modern English containing 5000 entries which clarify every kind of usage problems, presented in alphabetical order
Buy
now
Orange Prize 2011
Congratulations to this year's winner: Serbian/American author Téa Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). At 25, Obreht is the youngest-ever author to take the Prize.
Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary this year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world.
Emma Donoghue (Irish) - Room; Picador; 7th Novel
'So carefully and originally constructed that it's both hard to put down and profoundly affecting . . . Donoghue has crafted a narrative that moves as breathlessly as a thriller while convincingly portraying how a boy might believe a room is his whole world.' --Sunday Times Book of the Week
Aminatta Forna (British/Sierra Leonean) - The Memory of Love; Bloomsbury; 2nd Novel
Delivering us to a common centre, no matter where we happen to have been born, Aminatta Forna tackles those great human experiences of love and war, of friendship, rivalry, of death and triumphant survival.
Emma Henderson (British) - Grace Williams Says it Loud; Sceptre; 1st Novel
'Startlingly assured, poetic and engaging - GRACE WILLIAMS SAYS IT LOUD introduces a new voice, one which I have no doubt we will be hearing much more of; I read it in two sittings, and am already looking forward to her next work.'
(Patrick McCabe )
Nicole Krauss (American) - Great House; Viking; 3rd Novel
Téa Obreht (Serbian/American) - The Tiger's Wife; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1st Novel
'A wonderful, really remarkable novelfascinating, unusual, original (Erica Wagner on WOMAN'S HOUR, RADIO 4 )
Kathleen Winter (Canadian) - Annabel; Jonathan Cape; 1st Novel
`Her lyrical voice and her crystalline landscape are enchanting' --The New Yorker
