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This book may be thirty years old, but its advice is still pertinent. If you want to have a blitz or crackdown against, or shake-up of, bad writing (all examples of 'tabloidese'), then this is the book for you.

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Can writers learn from computer programmers?

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Introducing and applying Conway's Law, Gresham's Law and the sunken cost fallacy to the practice of writing.

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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

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A fascinating glimpse into the mind and development of a true virtuoso.

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Geoffrey Chaucer's Complete Works: which edition do YOU prefer?

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We visited the William Morris Gallery at the weekend, and Chaucer’s Complete Works was one of the books Wm Morris published.

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The art of writing originated from a very prosaic need, not a creative impulse

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The art of making paper was kept secret for hundreds of years.

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I’ve been sent the following books by publishers, and will review them in due course. Here is some information about them.

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If you learnt how to write well at school, maybe you're lucky

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The typical school writing assignment involves working in a way that no real writer does.

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Let's hear it for the introverts!

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This review was originally published in Teach Secondary magazine, and so is aimed at teachers rather than writers, but as writers are often called upon to speak in public I thought this might be useful for them too!

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Review: 99 Variations on a Proof

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It was, surely, only a matter of time before someone would take Raymond Queneau’s idea of exercises in style and apply it to mathematics.

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Review: Adventures in Maps

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This beautifully illustrated volume has relevance to several different curriculum areas, containing as it does accounts of intrepid historical journeys that range from 16th century seafaring voyages to Arctic crossings and even the surveys undertaken to facilitate the moon landings.

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