A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo Zen in the Art of Writing Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing That You'll Ever Need
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better Pity The Reader Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer’s life from the Sunday Times bestselling author
The Art of Fiction The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. 25th Anniversary Edition The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Elements of Style, The
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition New Oxford Style Manual Eats, Shoots and Leaves The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

Best Books for New Writers

By NewWriters.org.uk

By NewWriters.org.uk

Best Books for New Writers

Here's our selection of the best books for new and aspiring authors. We include our top picks of books about the craft of writing, books about grammar and style and, finally, books to offer motivation and inspiration to writers.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker...

George Saunders

£10.99
£10.44
Zen in the Art of Writing

Zen in the Art of Writing

Ray Bradbury

£10.99
£10.44
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life

Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

£10.99
£10.44
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing That You'll Ever Need

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing...

Jessica Brody

£14.99
£14.24
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our...

Richard Cohen

£9.99
£9.49
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better

The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and...

Will Storr

£12.99
Pity The Reader

Pity The Reader

Suzanne McConnell and Kurt Vonnegut

£15.99
£15.19
Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer’s life from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer’s life...

Haruki Murakami

£18.99
The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction

David Lodge

£10.99
£10.44
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. 25th Anniversary Edition

The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. 25th...

Christopher Vogler

£22.50
£21.37
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in...

Steven Pinker

£10.99
£10.44
Elements of Style, The

Elements of Style, The

William Strunk and E. White

£12.76
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and...

Benjamin Dreyer

£10.99
£10.44
New Oxford Style Manual

New Oxford Style Manual

£28.99
£27.54
Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Lynne Truss

£9.99
£9.49
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through...

Harold Bloom

£14.99
£14.24
Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

£21.99
Jane Austen: The Complete Works

Jane Austen: The Complete Works

Jane Austen

£120.00
£114.00
A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

£16.99
£16.14
The Complete Bronte Collection

The Complete Bronte Collection

Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, et al.

£29.99
£28.49
Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

£9.99
£9.49
The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah...

Alice Walker

£10.99
£10.44
The Little Prince: Colour Illustrations

The Little Prince: Colour Illustrations

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

£10.99
£10.44
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

£14.99
£14.24