Your Story Matters: Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better Swallowed By a Whale: How to Survive the Writing Life Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life
Reverse Engineering Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms Elements of Style, The: Pearson New International Edition
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Four Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry The Craft - A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life Zen in the Art of Writing Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Books on Writing

By New Writing North

By New Writing North

Books on Writing

Prose, poetry, craft and the writing life... Whatever kind of book you're writing, find guidance, inspiration and encouragement with these recommended companions. 

A list compiled by New Writing North.

Your Story Matters: Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story

Your Story Matters: Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills,...

Nikesh Shukla

£16.99
£16.14
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

£10.99
£10.44
Swallowed By a Whale: How to Survive the Writing Life

Swallowed By a Whale: How to Survive the Writing Life

£14.99
£14.24
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life

Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott

£10.99
£10.44
Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering

Jon McGregor, Sarah Hall, et al.

£9.99
£9.49
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page

Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page

Cathy Rentzenbrink

£14.99
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms

£14.99
Elements of Style, The: Pearson New International Edition

Elements of Style, The: Pearson New International Edition

William Strunk and E. White

£19.53
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction

William Zinsser

£14.99
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Four Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Four Authors Share...

Julia Bell and Paul Magrs

£20.00
£19.00
The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

Stephen Fry

£10.99
£10.44
The Craft - A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century.

The Craft - A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century.

£14.99
£14.24
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
52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life

52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry...

Ruth Padel

£12.99
£12.34
Zen in the Art of Writing

Zen in the Art of Writing

Ray Bradbury

£10.99
£10.44
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Patricia Highsmith

£9.99
£9.49
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal...

Robert Hass

£10.99
£10.44
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?: A Handbook for the Rejected Writer

Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?: A Handbook for the...

Fay Weldon

£8.99
£8.54
Adventures in Form

Adventures in Form

Hannah Silva, Ian McMillan, et al.

£9.99
£9.49
The Art of the Novel

The Art of the Novel

£8.99
£8.54
Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2022

Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2022

£27.50
£26.12
Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

John Yorke

£10.99
£10.44
How To Write It: Work With Words

How To Write It: Work With Words

Anthony Anaxagorou

£6.99
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Julia Cameron

£19.99
£18.99
The Artist's Way Workbook: A Companion to the International Bestseller

The Artist's Way Workbook: A Companion to the International...

Julia Cameron

£16.99
£16.14
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find...

Mason Currey

£12.99
£12.34
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.

First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing...

Joe Moran

£10.99
£10.44
Suppose a Sentence

Suppose a Sentence

Brian Dillon

£10.99
£10.44
Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories

Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the...

Scarlett Thomas

£12.99
£12.34
On Writers and Writing

On Writers and Writing

Margaret Atwood

£10.99
£10.44
The Journal Writer’s Companion: Achieve Your Goals • Express Your Creativity • Realize Your Potential

The Journal Writer’s Companion: Achieve Your Goals • Express...

Alyss Thomas

£14.99
£14.24