Books about Books

Robert W. Bly / Getting Your Book Published: Inside Secrets of a Successful Author (Large Paperback)

 It's fun to write but it's even more fun to be paid to write. In this book written by one of America's most succussfully published non-fiction authors, Robert Bly reveals his step-by-step...

Shaun Bythell / The Diary of a Bookseller

 Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there'The Diary Of A...

Stephen May / Get Started in Creative Writing

The perfect source for practical answers, reassurance, and inspiration for all would-be poets, short story writers, novelists, children's writers, playwrights, screenwriters, journalists, and...

Steve MacDonogh / Open Book: One Publisher's War (Large Paperback)

A tell all from the publisher at Brandon who spent his career testing governments in these islands with books about sensitive government issues.     All of our books are second hand, and...

Susan Hill / Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

   Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a...

Sven Birkerts / The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he...

Villa Gillet, Le Monde / The Novelist’s Lexicon: Writers on the Words That Define Their Work (Hardback)

At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde , organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their...