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Top 101 Creative Writing Blogs

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Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs
From poetry to lengthy prose, creative writing can be a great way to express yourself. Of course, even the best students and writers can use a few tips, a little inspiration and a whole lot of help getting their work out there. These blogs offer all of that and more. From [...:]

Creative Writing

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What is Creative Writing?
Creative writing is anything where the purpose is to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than to simply convey information.

 
I'll be focusing on creative fiction in this post (mainly short stories and novels), but poetry, (auto)biography and creative non-fiction are all other forms of creative writing. Here's a couple of definitions:
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My Book Recommendation – Hunted

Title: Hunted (House of Night)
 
Author:  P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: ATOM (4 Jun 2009)
ISBN-10: 190565457X
ISBN-13: 978-1905654574
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 3.2 cm
Product Description
'The door closed with a sickening thud of finality, shutting my friends out and leaving me alone with my enemy, a fallen angel, and the monstrous bird creature his [...:]

New Music Books

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1. The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi (Hardcover – 29 Sep 2009)
2. Saturday Night Peter by Peter Kay (Hardcover – 1 Oct 2009)
3. JLS: Our Story So Far by JLS and Dean Freeman (Hardcover – 3 Sep 2009)
4. I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne (Hardcover – 1 Oct 2009)
5. Take [...:]

Top 10 And New Releases In Books

Top 10 This Week 28th Nov 2009 UK
Bestsellers









1.
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown (Author)
£18.99 £9.00









2.
Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: Our Story (Ant & Dec)
Ant McPartlin (Author) …
£20.00 £7.00









3.
Guinness World Records 2010
£20.00 £8.99









4.
My Shit Life So Far
Frankie Boyle (Author)
£18.99 £8.54









5.
Where's Stig? (Top Gear)
Top Gear (Author)
£8.99 £4.45









6.
The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria…
Andrew [...:]

Christmas Books

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"First Noel" by Jan Pienkowski  
This is an absolutely amazing  book that made me gasp with surprise when I opened it, so unexpected was the beauty, craftsmanship and presentation of its contents. What was an even bigger surprise is that it isn't really a book at all, but a Christmas carousel that springs to life [...:]

My Book Recommendation: The Great Fire

Title: The Great Fire: A Novel
Author:  Shirley Hazzard




Product Details
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (6 May 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844080579
ISBN-13: 978-1844080571
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 2.2 cm
Product Description
More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is [...:]

Best Humour Books 2009

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1.



Saturday Night Peter by Peter Kay


Peter Kay's new biography charts the hilarious journey his career took as he developed and honed his comedy act in pubs and clubs across the country.




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TV Burp Book by Harry Hill


Only with the help of Harry Hill's new book can you finally find out about the secret [...:]

Book On Rose Of Tralee – Irish Historical Fiction

Title: Always and Forever: Katie The Rose of Tralee
Author: Annette J Dunlea
Paperback: 170 pages
Publisher: AD Press (25 Aug 2009)
Language:  English
ISBN-10: 1409272974
ISBN-13: 978-1409272977
Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.8 x 1 cm
Review
Sweet Tale of a Rose by Marisa Reidy
The supernatural love of a fictional Rose of Tralee is the subject of a new book. Always and Forever: Katie [...:]

Book Recommendation – The White Tiger

Title: The White Tiger
Author:  Aravind Adiga
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Atlantic Books (1 Mar 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1843547228
ISBN-13: 978-1843547228
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
Product Description
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He [...:]