Guaridan Shorts imprint: 26 books
On Reading
Notes on the literary landscape, 1995-2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
We read for all sorts of reasons: pleasure, education, escapism, intellectual stimulation. The act of reading is a private, personal one that we love to share with our friends and families. Reading and books form a world rich in detail, memory and emotion.In On Reading, Robert McCrum draws together his...
Libya
Murder in Benghazi and the Fall of Gaddafi
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In the brutal hours before and after Gaddafis overthrow and throughout the revolutionary aftermath of the past year, Luke Harding and Martin Chulov have reported for the Guardian from inside Libya. In this Guardian Short, brand-new reportage gives in vivid, personal detail, an eyewitness account of...
My Favourite Album
Best of the Guardian Blog
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
How do you choose your favourite album? It seems that the answer is: you don't, they choose you.Some of the Guardian's most respected writers explain how they came to discover and love their favourite albums. From Jon Wilde's moving piece on Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven, to Laura Barton's...
Manchester City
20 Defining Matches
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
On 8 May 1956, the Guardian described Manchester City's homecoming after a Wembley final full of drama. As the Cup, dressed in the City's colours, and held aloft by Roy Paul, the captain, came into view, a deafening crescendo of rattles, bells, even a trumpet (blown by a lusty ten-year-old) rose...
Titanic
A Century of News
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
11 April 1912: "The White Star Liner Titanic, which left Southampton for New York yesterday on her first Atlantic voyage, surpasses in size and luxury, but especially in luxury, anything else afloat, if not also the Waldorf-Astoria and the Royal Automobile Club." Despite the far worse catastrophes that...
How to Write Fiction
A Guardian Masterclass
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
With an introduction by Geoff Dyer and personal insights into how some of the most internationally known authors have crafted their best loved works, How to write fiction is a must-read for every aspiring fiction writer. Comprehensive exercises by Kate Grenville to accompany each stage of the writing...
On Writing
Notes from the world of books, 1995-2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Why do authors write? How do they go about it? What is good writing?In On Writing, Robert McCrum collects together his questions and reflections on the nature of writing from his Observer newspaper column. In them he explores the sometimes tricky relationship between writing and commerce, looks at the...
Keeping the Torch Burning
Terror, Protest and the Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The Olympics and politics have never been far apart from one another. At the very first edition of the modern games, held in Athens in 1896, there was a protest at the exclusion of women from competition; during the Cold War era, every contest between the USA and the USSR was a metaphor for the geopolitical...
by Karen Wiesner
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Imagine you could write the first draft of a novel in only 30 days. Imagine you could figure out how long it would take to complete each step down to the day that you could set realistic and accurate goals that would allow you to maintain a constant momentum.This 30-day method for outlining a novel...
The Beatles
A Band Reviewed
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In 1960, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best first played together as The Beatles. On 5 October 1962, The Beatles with Sutcliffe and Best out and Ringo Starr in released their debut single, Love Me Do. The subsequent seven years saw them revolutionise Sixties music...
Sport Legends
Blood, Sweat and Brilliance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Sports stars are a unique breed of professional, a strange and sometimes contradictory mix of ambition, dedication, wealth, sacrifice and excess that they manage to express as athletic brilliance. The most successful the fastest, the strongest, the most skilful are so often the most compelling and...
by Phil Daoust
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Writing a novel can be a slow, painful and lonely process. Many writers never manage to achieve their goal. This inspirational book will help you to rediscover the joy of your craft and rekindle your creative fire.Leading contemporary authors offer you support, guidance and encouragement as well as a...
The Origin of Darwinism
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
On 24th November 1859, Charles Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species'. His master-work laid down the theory of evolution by natural selection. In the century and half since publication, this theory has become firmly entwined with our instinctive view of how the planet's species came to be. It has...
Manchester United
20 Defining Matches
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
On 5 February 1958, the Guardian's football writer HD 'Donny' Davies filed his report from Yugoslavia. "At Belgrade today in warm sunshine and on a grass pitch where the last remnants of melting snow produced the effect of an English lawn flecked with daisies, Red Star and Manchester United began a battle...
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