A&C Black

The Writers & Artists Yearbook has been an excellent resource for over 100 years now and the 2009 edition is no different. Being an aspiring writer with an artist girlfriend, this book is rarely on our shelf long before one of us takes it down to find an address for a magazine, a website of an author or just to read one of the inspiring articles by some superb names such as Neil Gaiman, Bernard Cornwell, Terry Pratchett and JK Rowling (although Rowlings article is a bit short and feels somewhat forced.)

Although it is handy for artists, it really is more of a writers yearbook with some extra bits added on for artists, but either way it’s certainly worth a read.

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How to address mainly British and Commonwealth people of distinction (or at any rate of title) from Royalty downwards, in speech and writing, with useful tables of abbreviations and of pronunciation of surnames. Some of the examples are a trifle laconic but on the whole the book is helpful and occasionally amusing. The difficulty might come not when reading it but when, overawed by the occasion, one attempted to put its precepts into practice. Georgette Heyer and PG Wodehouse include incidental instruction on the same subject but in a lighter-hearted and less didactic fashion… (meer)