The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer
10 best books like The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer (Sandra Scofield): How to Be Both, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, The Inheritance of Loss, Remarkable Creatures, Haiti Noir, Walking Across Egypt, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, Writing with Emotion, Tension, and Conflict: Techniques for Crafting an Expressive and Compelling Novel, Why I am a Hindu
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation. Her novels consistently attract serious acclaim and discussion—and have won her a dedicated readership who are drawn...
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
| Author | Jessica Pan |
| ISBN | 0857526154 |
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.
When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in...
| Author | Kiran Desai |
| ISBN | 0802142818 |
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju,...
| Author | Tracy Chevalier |
| ISBN | 0007178379 |
In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except that it has a huge, bulbous eye.
Remarkable Creatures is the story of Mary Anning, who has a talent...
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 1936070650 |
Launched with the summer ’04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
Featuring...
| Author | Clyde Edgerton |
| ISBN | 0345419073 |
She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt–which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She’s Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley...
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost...
| Author | Anne Bernays |
| ISBN | 0062720066 |
What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer...
Writing with Emotion, Tension, and Conflict: Techniques for Crafting an Expressive and Compelling Novel
| Author | Cheryl St. John |
| ISBN | 1599637588 |
Craft an Emotionally Charged Story That Will Resonate with Readers
Emotional impact shouldn't be dropped into your novel as an afterthought or forced upon your story with a pair of pliers and an iron grip. It should be carefully sewn into the fabric of the story to create tension-filled moments...
| Author | Shashi Tharoor |
| ISBN | 9386021102 |
In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith. He talks about the Great Souls of Hinduism,...
