![]() | Essential English: For Journalists, Editors and Writers (Pimlico) by Harold Evans
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £7.00 The Bible on English for writers and editors. Reads like an entertaining and humourous novel and still tells you all you need to know about using English.
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![]() | Cassell Guide to Written English by James Aitchison
Buy used from: £10.00 Excellent, succinct but comprehensive book on the English language.
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![]() | English for Journalists by Wynford Hicks
Buy used from: £7.99 First rate crash course in English grammar and punctuation for Journalists. The whole series deserves to become standard text.
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![]() | Writing Feature Articles: A Practical Guide to Methods and Markets (Focal Press Journalism) by Brendan Hennessy
Buy used from: £9.69 Takes English into the market and shows you how to make money. Very good work book in a very good series.
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![]() | Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 John Simpsons anecdotes are excellent for preparing any budding writer for the political realities of the media industry. This is his best and freshest work.
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![]() | The Granta Book of Reportage (Journalism)
Buy used from: £0.15 Think that freelance foreign correspondent work is glamorous? Read this and think again.
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![]() | Scots Law for Journalists by Bruce McKain
Buy new: £31.35 / Used from: £25.00 Even if your English, this is worth reading. There is a lot of common ground in the law. This is clear and comprehensive
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![]() | Reporting for Journalists (Media Skills (Paperback)) by Chris Frost
Buy new: £10.53 / Used from: £13.98 Want to turn writing into a workable craft? Get this book
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![]() | Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £2.34 Bill Bryson's irreverant but scholarly and valuable look at English language development. Well worth a look
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![]() | Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £3.60 / Used from: £3.75 Important companion to Mother Tongue
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![]() | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy used from: £0.01 Shows how politics is almost unchanged down through the ages.Great underpinning to understand psychology of statecraft
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![]() | The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classic.) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £23.27 Its a novel, its a biography, its what stark, hard feature writing is about. If you can deal with hard, true reality in the world beyond TV, buy this.
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![]() | Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £4.99 Real old school Journalist reportage. This guy is not afraid to get bombed and beaten to say what must be said. Not a stylist but straight honest and accesible.
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![]() | The Magazines Handbook (Media Practice) by Jenny McKay
Buy used from: £20.35 This book gives you all the lingo, practice and technicality that you could ask for in a non-textbook, easily digestible style.
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![]() | The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Buy new: £41.14 / Used from: £6.00 Expensive but worth it if you want to get behind your reading and dig deep.
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![]() | Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Buy new: £3.64 / Used from: £2.38 Primo Levi's work is a crucial and terrible necessity to fight dreadful revisionist history that would say that the holocaust did not happen. Read and learn
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![]() | The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge
Buy new: £3.50 / Used from: £3.00 Want to write fiction? Read this.....
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![]() | The Practice of Writing: Essays,Lectures,Reviews and A Diary by David Lodge
Buy new: £12.67 / Used from: £5.00 ....And this
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