How to Be a Writer
Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea
$49.71
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
22 August 2022
Summary
Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this one. He reckons to have written literally millions of words in that time, several of them in the right order.
This, his 13th or possibly 14th book, is about those years of writing: the triumphs (few), the heartbreaks (many), the sackings (more than you would expect), the biscuits (many, many more than you would expect). In it he somehow makes the act …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408713839 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408713837 |
| Author: | Marcus Berkmann |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 22 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 138mm x 24mm |
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Berkmann is one of our funniest writersBerkmann is highly entertaining … with an anarchic Monty Pythonesque sense of fun
Berkmann is one of our funniest writers – Craig BrownBerkmann is highly entertaining … with an anarchic Monty Pythonesque sense of fun – Alain de Botton
About The Author
Marcus Berkmann
Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front of various television screens swearing at incompetent England batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a regular contributor to Private Eye and film critic of the Oldie, and writes book reviews for the Daily Mail. His books include Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, Fatherhood: The Truth and A Matter of Facts: The Insider’s Guide to Quizzing.
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