Resource Centre

Here you will find useful books that will help you with your writing career.

Books

• Characters
• Dictionaries/Thesauri
• Directories
• Genre writing
• Grammar/Spelling
• Writing handbooks

Websites

• BBC Get writing website
• Firstwriter.com - first writer is a free writers' and authors' resource site, including everything an author or writer could need!
• Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau (JBWB)
• Writersdigest.com - Home of the world's leading writing magazine as well as writing books, competitions and workshops

Characters

The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines: Sixteen Master Archetypes	The Book of Dialogue: How to Write Effective Conversation in Fiction, Screenplays, Drama, and Poetry	The Mother of All Baby Name Books: Over 94,000 Baby Names Complete with Origins and Meanings	Careers for Your Characters: A Writer's Guide to 99 Professions from Architect to Zookeeper
45 Master Characters

Dictionaries/Thesauri

Oxford dictionary for writers and editors	Oxford thesaurus of English	The Penguin rhyming dictionary	Divided by a Common Language: A British/American Dictionary
Webster's Synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms	The Oxford Reverse Dictionary	Collins English Dictionary

Directories

Instant Information	Guide to Literary Agents	Writer's Guide to Children's Book Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents	The Red Book: Directory of Publishers
Novel and Short Story Writer's Market	Poet's Market: 1800 Places to Publish Your Poetry	A.S.K. Hollis: The Directory of UK Associations	Who's Who
Whitakers Almanack

Genre writing

The Writer's complete fantasy reference

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

The Romance Writers' Phrase Book

How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-By-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript

Grammar/Spelling

Eats Shoots and Leaves

The Student's Guide to Writing: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (Macmillan Study Guides)

Quick Solutions to Common Errors in English: An A-Z Guide to Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Writing handbooks

The Writer's Handbook

The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook