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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 198x129x16 mm, weight: 299 g
  • Sērija : Writers and Artists Companions
  • Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1408131234
  • ISBN-13: 9781408131237
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 198x129x16 mm, weight: 299 g
  • Sērija : Writers and Artists Companions
  • Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1408131234
  • ISBN-13: 9781408131237
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The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction is an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality.Part 1 explores the full range of genres and asks the question: what is literary non-fiction?Part 2 includes tips by such bestselling literary non-fiction writers as: Lisa Appignanesi, Rosemary Bailey, Gillian Beer, Bidisha, Lizzie Collingham, William Dalrymple, Stevie Davies, Colin Grant, Rahila Gupta, Philip Hoare, Siri Hustvedt, Alice Kessler-Harris, Barry Lopez, Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Sara Maitland, Neil McKenna, Caroline Moorehead, Susie Orbach, Jennifer Potter, Susan Sellers, Dava Sobel, Diana Souhami, Dale Spender, Francis Spufford, Daniel Swift, Colin Thubron, Natasha Walter, Sara Wheeler and Simon Winchester.Part 3 offers practical advice - from planning and researching to writing a proposal and finding an agent or a publisher when your work is complete.

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A professional guide to the rapidly evolving genre of literary non-fiction written by tutors from the prestigious Arvon Foundation course and with contributions from leading writers.
Foreword ix
David Kynaston
Preface to series xi
Carole Angier
Sally Cline
Part One Literary non-fiction
1(110)
1 Introduction
3(4)
Sally Cline
2 What is literary non-fiction?
7(12)
Sally Cline
3 Challenges of literary non-fiction
19(10)
Midge Gillies
4 Reflections on travel writing
29(13)
Midge Gillies
5 Reflections on food writing
42(10)
Sally Cline
6 Reflections on nature and landscape
52(11)
Midge Gillies
7 Reflections on feminism
63(11)
Sally Cline
8 Reflections on history
74(12)
Midge Gillies
9 Reflections on sexuality, friendship and death
86(13)
Sally Cline
10 Reflections on the mysteries of mind and body
99(12)
Sally Cline
Part Two Tips and tales - guest contributors
111(48)
Lisa Appignanesi
113(1)
Rosemary Bailey
114(2)
Gillian Beer
116(1)
Bidisha
117(2)
Lizzie Collingham
119(1)
William Dalrympie
120(2)
Stevie Davies
122(1)
Colin Grant
123(2)
Rahila Gupta
125(1)
Philip Hoare
126(2)
Siri Hustvedt
128(2)
Alice Kessler-Harris
130(2)
Barry Lopez
132(1)
Richard Mabey
133(2)
Robert Macfarlane
135(1)
Sara Maitland
136(2)
Neil McKenna
138(1)
Caroline Moorehead
139(2)
Susie Orbach
141(1)
Jennifer Potter
142(2)
Susan Sellers
144(1)
Dava Sobel
145(2)
Diana Souhami
147(1)
Dale Spender
148(2)
Francis Spufford
150(1)
Daniel Swift
151(1)
Colin Thubron
152(2)
Natasha Walter
154(1)
Sara Wheeler
155(2)
Simon Winchester
157(2)
Part Three Write on
159(48)
Planning
1 Planning the writing
161(6)
Sally Cline
2 Planning social or cultural history
167(4)
Midge Gillies
3 Planning travel writing and writing about nature and landscape
171(3)
Midge Gillies
4 Planning a biography or autobiography
174(9)
Sally Cline
5 Planning a memoir
183(5)
Sally Cline
6 Structure for all types of literary non-fiction
188(4)
Midge Gillies
7 Writing a proposal
192(5)
Midge Gillies
8 Mentoring and other mattera
197(7)
Sally Cline
9 Agents and publishers
204(3)
Midge Gillies
Research
1 Where to go
207(12)
Basic printed resources
207(1)
National Archives
208(1)
Births, deaths and marriages
208(1)
Wills
209(1)
Local archives
209(1)
Libraries and museums
210(1)
University libraries
211(1)
Public libraries
211(1)
Other libraries
211(2)
Museums
213(1)
Online sources
214(5)
2 Other things to do in the research period
219(2)
Copyright research
219(2)
Writing
1 Short pieces as starting points
221(4)
Sally Cline
2 Description
225(2)
Midge Gillies
3 Interviewing
227(7)
Sally Cline
4 Using quotations and dialogue
234(3)
Midge Gillies
5 Truth versus facts
237(2)
Midge Gillies
Acknowledgements 239(2)
Permissions 241(1)
Select bibliography and further reading 242(15)
Index 257
Sally Cline, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Advisory Fellow to the Royal Literary Fund, is an award winning biographer and short fiction writer. Her 12 books include biographies of Zelda Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, and Radclyffe Hall, (shortlisted for USA LAMBDA award).She is currently writing a Brief Life of Dashiell Hammett. Former Writer in Residence at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, she is co-Series Editorof Bloomsbury's eight volume Arvon series onwriting.

Midge Gillies has written seven non-fiction books, including two highly acclaimed biographies: Amy Johnson: Queen of Air about the record-breaking pilot, and Marie Lloyd: The One and Only, a life of the Edwardian music hall star. Her most recent book is The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War. She is a part-time tutor at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education.