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The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction

By: Sally Cline,Midge Gillies

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The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction

By: Sally Cline,Midge Gillies

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&C Black

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1408175207

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9781408175200

Army Wives

From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By: Midge Gillies

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Army Wives

From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By: Midge Gillies

Most families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives who made the arduous journey to the Crimean war and witnessed battle at close quarters. We hear the story of life in the Raj and the, often terrifying, experiences of the women who lived through its dying days. We explore the pressures of being a modern army wife - whether living in barracks or trying to maintain a normal home life outside 'the patch'. In the twentieth century two world wars produced new generations of army wives who forged friendships that lasted into peacetime. Army Wives reveals their experience and that of a new breed of independent women who supported their men through the Cold War to the current war on terror. Midge Gillies, author of acclaimed The Barbed-Wire University, looks at how industrial warfare means husbands can survive battle with life-changing injuries that are both mental and physical - and what that means for their family. She describes how army wives communicate with their husbands - via letters and coded messages, to more immediate, but less intimate, texts and Skype. She examines bereavement, from the seances, public memorials and deaths in a foreign field of the Great War to the modern media coverage of flag-draped coffins returning home by military plane. Above all, Army Wives examines what it really means to be part of the 'army family'.

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Aurum

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1781315515

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9781781315514

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion

Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex

By: Sally Cline,Midge Gillies

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Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion

Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex

By: Sally Cline,Midge Gillies

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion 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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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474268315

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9781474268318

Writing Lives

Literary Biography

By: Midge Gillies

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Writing Lives

Literary Biography

By: Midge Gillies

In addition to exploring the key characteristics of life writing, this book examines the relationship between the lives of authors and the influence of these lives both on their own writing and on the reception of their work by contemporary and later readers.

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129

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Cambridge University Press

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052173231X

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9780521732314

Amy Johnson

Queen of the Air

By: Midge Gillies

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Amy Johnson

Queen of the Air

By: Midge Gillies

In May 1930, Amy Johnson, a typist from Hull, took off from Croydon Airport with a thermos flask and a packet of sandwiches to try to beat the world solo record to Australia. She arrived, sun-blistered and with grease on her face, after weeks of flying a second-hand, open-cockpit biplane with no radio communication and the most basic of maps. Her adventures inspired a world struggling with the devastating effects of the Depression and made her into a celebrity overnight. She married Scottish playboy Jim Mollison, and together 'The Flying Sweethearts' broke records, mixed with the Mayfair Set, Amelia Earhart and Hollywood stars. But her tempestuous marriage was soon to crumble and she resumed her love affair with speed, taking up gliding and rally driving, and finding solace with a French millionaire. Her plane disappeared over the Thames Estuary during the Second World War, sparking rumours which are still being investigated today. Her body was never found.

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Orion Publishing Group

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0753817705

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9780753817704

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion

Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex

By: Sally Cline,Midge Gillies

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Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex

By: Sally Cline,Midge Gillies

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1474268323

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Army Wives

From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By: Midge Gillies

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From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

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The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction

The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction

Army Wives

Army Wives

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion

Writing Lives

Writing Lives

Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion

Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion

Army Wives

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