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THE WRITER’S NOTEBOOK by n quentin woolf

Here is a fluff-free collection of pointers and reminders for the aspiring writer of prose fiction. It’s a handy way to keep in mind both well-worn and time-proven ideas (like showing rather than telling, and deepening conflict), as well as comments that will help you avoid some common pitfalls (mistaking real dialogue for representative dialogue, or writing a movie instead of a novel). Full of useful nuggets, the book is entirely hand-written.

This 90-page book is small enough to slip into a back pocket and makes a great gift for the writer in your life.

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THE BOOKSHOP IN BRICK LANE various; ed. n quentin woolf

In 2007, writer N Quentin Woolf founded a literary circle in Brick Lane, East London. The group has met every week since then, creating and critiquing a vast, diverse range of plays, poetry, novels and short stories. This, the group’s first anthology, is a celebration of their meeting place: Eastside Books.

In The Bookshop On Brick Lane, fiction and non-fiction interweave to form a tapestry of Brick Lane at the start of the 21st Century. Marybel Moore combines history with memoir to reveal some of the curiosities of the area, while stories by nineteen different authors, ranging in subject and style from fifties detective fiction to the reminiscences of a holocaust survivor, from obsession stories to love affairs, are anchored by the solid presence of the bookshop.

With a foreword by Russ Willey, author of Brewer’s Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable, the variety in The Bookshop In Brick Lane makes it a great book for dipping into, whatever your mood.

ISBN – 978-0-557-47265-9

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WEDNESDAY various; ed. n quentin woolf

A collection of stories, memoir and poetry from the writers’ circle that met each Wednesday in 2009 at Eastside Books in Brick Lane. From stories of the old East End to tales of US counter culture, poems of mountains to tales of people with secrets, this anthology has something for every taste.

Includes work from:

Helen Bond, James Mansfield, N Q Woolf, Ross Hopkins, L J Mountford, Donna F Collier, Sara Bearman, Melanie Venables, Steve McGregor, Elizabeth Carola, Kerry McCarthy

ISBN 978-0-557-37879-1
Soon to be available on Amazon U.S.

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The Writer’s Notebook £6.50 The Bookshop In Brick Lane £7.99 Wednesday Anthology £7.99

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anthology launch

Our recently published anthology of short stories and poetry contains writing from a diverse group of writers who meet each week ar Eastside Books in Brick Lane. The book holds a vivid cast of characters, all of whom have a connection with a certain bookshop in a certain East London street. Private detectives and aid workers rub shoulders with Holocaust survivors and down-and-outs;obsessives discover true love and jackpot winners discover who their true friends are. In amongst the fiction, the true story of Brick Lane and it’s envorons is told in bite-size pieces: from the contemporary East London music scene to warring ideologies, from the issue of East End poverty to the importance of choosing the right beigal, The Bookshop In Brick Lane has writing to suit every taste.

The authors of this book meet each week at Eastside Books in Brick Lane and are:

Linda Chapple, Marybel Moore, N Quentin Woolf, Ced Chen, Stefano Peter Pini, Warren Davis, Helen Gilbert, Shuab Parvez, David Pidgeon, Dan Nicolai, Madeleine North, Marc DuBois, TJ Howard, Jill Young, Tera Brouwer, Gareth Storey, Frances Wasswemann-Bildner, Peter J Mahon, Jane Miller, Kiki Sousa Otto

Please join us for the launch party at 8pm on December 3rd for drinks and nibbles.

the bookshop in brick lane

For rather longer than we might care to admit, members of the Tuesday night Brick Lane

The Bookshop In Brick Lane

Critique Group have been toiling over The Anthology. Marybel Moore has been learning all there is to know about the history of the area, while other writers have used the bookshop as a motif in imaginings of all shapes and sizes, from hardboiled detective fiction to love poems, from gritty drugs stories to wistful rememberings. Now, at last, the anthology is ready. It’s available to buy here at just £6.99