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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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Marybel Moore

We’re getting to the final stages of putting together an anthology of writing (both fiction and memoir) based on the theme ‘The Book Shop In Brick Lane’ (the bookshop in question being, of course, Eastside Books, our meeting-place these past years. Marybel Moore is in charge of the historical contributions - no small undertaking, what with this being the east end of London, with its waves of immigration and disaster forming a palimpsest through which the historian must patiently peel . The fictional contributions have been edited by veteran group member Warren Davis, and we’re delighted to have attracted Rachel Lichtenstein to write an introduction to the collection. (Given that Rachel is perhaps best known for the oral history ‘On Brick Lane’, there’s no pressure whatsoever on Marybel.) We’re aiming for publication and launch this side of Christmas – watch this space.