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This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books-picture books for older readers.

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A collection of letters and recipes from more than 50 well-known and award-winning children's authors provide insights into their lives, advice to the children who wrote to them, and personal information. Each entry includes the student's letter to the author, the author's response, and a recipe from the author.

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This book provides teachers and students of literature with a resource that gives them guidance to the philosophical influences on literary criticism and literary figures.

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Essays studying the dominant theme of conflict in cultural, literary and religious life in France in the sixteenth-century, revealed through nuanced analyses of the writings of contemporary authors. -- .

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An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities.

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The breadth of authors covered ensures an historical context for the issues raised by multiculturalism, and the sections on the critical reception of each author address such important issues as the authority and authenticity of the writer to comment on a different culture.

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Why do writers write How do they react to criticism of their work What inspires them and how do they work Does fiction have any political, ethical or spiritual significance Can we learn more about a book from its author This collection of interviews with British novelists offers an insight into bestselling authors' views on fiction.

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Presents a collection of interviews with contemporary British novelists that offers an insight into the authors' views on contemporary fiction; their influences and themes; readers and critics; and, why they write and their writing process. This title provides a snapshot of the reality of living as a writer.

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A biography of the well known play Master Class, as well as lessons in creative writing and how to get a play onto stage , this book fascinating insight into the playwright's craft.

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This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the Enlightenment. The questions raised by the twelve essays and the introduction, explore the unity, diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self. -- .

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Writing and Reality outlines the ways in which such work as a whole challenges the dominant cultural values of contemporary Britain.

The book begins by considering the context of this writing and proceeds to examine the textual strategies that distinguish the diary novel.

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This study investigates some literary configurations of Beijing through contemporary Chinese literature and films. Representations of these spaces are revealed to be the projections of some writers and filmmakers own cultural imaginations.

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Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustice in the context of the climate crisis.

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Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam -- .

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Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam -- .

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In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something as seemingly marginal as artistic creation, specifically literary creation Why bother writing when the worlds on fire