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Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Writers' and Artists' Yearbook)

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Writers' and Artists' Yearbook)

This is the best-selling guide to markets in all areas of the United Kingdom and international media, completely revised and updated, and this year in its 102nd edition. It includes listings of all media contacts, a wealth of practical advice, and information on a huge range of topics, including copyright, finance, submitting a manuscript, and prizes and awards. With a foreword by Kate Mosse.

Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)

Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2009 (Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook)

This is the comprehensive guide to markets in all areas of children's media. This fifth edition is completely revised and updated, with a foreword by Michael Rosen. It contains information on a wide range of topics with an emphasis on giving aspiring writers and illustrators knowledge of the children's market in all areas to help them pursue their careers in this increasingly competitive area.

Summer Jobs Worldwide, 2009: Make the Most of the Summer Vacation (Summer Jobs Worldwide)

Summer Jobs Worldwide, 2009: Make the Most of the Summer Vacation (Summer Jobs Worldwide)

by Vacation Work

Summer Jobs Worldwide is now in its 40th edition and has sold over 500,000 copies. This comprehensive guide covers a wealth of opportunities from crewing yachts in the Canaries, picking strawberries in Denmark to teaching in Peking, Prague or Peking! With over 50,000 jobs for all ages, no other book includes such a variety of summer vacation work opportunities around the world.

A Gap Year or Two

by Jeremy MacDonogh

'Let's hope this book is only Part One. It has everything: adventure, food and wine, exotic locations, sex, wit, scholarship, unforgettable trivia, high-end dialogue, royalty, art and architecture, pathos, and above all the sheer joie de vivre of the author as he careers his picaresque way to adulthood. More! More!' James Burke In 1970, there was no better way to waste time, with a little style of course,... (more)

The Incredibly Indispensable Web Directory

The Incredibly Indispensable Web Directory

by Clive Zietman, Bettina Zietman

The fourth edition of this Web directory is updated and extended to include 10,000 entries. It is designed to save hours of fruitless searching on the Internet and to allow individuals to go straight to their desired Web site, without having to use search engines. The directory is a one-stop guide to popular names on the Internet. It lists and categorises sites from art galleries to zoos.

Getting a Job Abroad (How to)

by Roger Jones

With over 1100 websites, hundreds of recruitment agencies, and lots of useful contacts, this book tells readers where there are overseas jobs available, how to apply for them, and how to weigh up the risks and rewards of expatriot living, whether on a temporary or permanent basis.

Mew is for Murder

by Clea Simon

Theda Krakow is in a funk. Her sometime boyfriend's gone for good. The death of her beloved cat opened a bigger void. And the career leap she's made from copy editor to freelance writer has left her financesand her spiritflat. She desperately needs a headline to get her life back on track. One day, out for a stroll in her Cambridge neighborhood, Theda spies an adorable stray kitten. This charmer leads Theda to an... (more)

The Gate of Angels

by Penelope Fitzgerald

In 1912, rational Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger - fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, generous working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications - not only of the heart but also of the head - as Fred and Daisy take up each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside down.

World War One: Book 1

No Graves As Yet: A Novel

by Anne Perry

Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were... (more)

The Glittering Prizes

by Frederic Raphael

Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, golden days spent in unravelling the knots of friendship, in exploratory sex and in Badinage, that none of them will ever quite forget.A compelling story, "The Glittering... (more)

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

by Michael Palin

Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for The Two Ronnies, David Frost, etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys---Jones and Gilliam---and Eric Idle came together and changed... (more)

The Masters (Strangers and Brothers)

by Charles Percy Snow

The fourth in the Strangers and Brothers series begins with the dying Master of a Cambridge college. His imminent demise causes intense rivalry and jealousy amongst the other fellows. Former friends become enemies as the election looms.

So Farewell Then

by Wendy E. Cook

The most intimate portrait of Peter Cook to date, Cook's first wife writes of her life with Britain's most ingenious and innovative comedian, and offering a side of him few have ever seen. To his many fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they never met. Over a decade since his untimely death, his reputation as one of Britain's greatest comics shows no sign of shrinking. Wendy Cook was a teenage art... (more)

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