Here at Words Are Life, we've published 3 very different books. Click on the covers to find out more, and to purchase.

Why writers need estate agents!

Using character questions to help write deeper characters.

Allan Birkin (songwriter, drummer, singer and 'blue' stand-up comic, Scully who put the F in Laffta) shares his life and times.

Using reference and quote books to inspire your writing, plus reading examples from Lesley Atherton at Words Are Life.

David Holding, that's what. Our most prolific writer, David Holding, has been extra-prolific this last year or so. His books: Live Or Let...

Wigan poet, Shaun Fallows, has produced one of the quirkiest and most thought-provoking books of poetry I’ve ever read.

I recently got hold of three books by Wigan writer, Samantha Turner, and they are three glossy-covered and slim volumes.

‘I love you,’ he says. And I think, Ivan, you’re amazing. You have the weirdest mind I’ve met. Like, ever. We have a good time, me and Ivan

Richard Easton was in my year at high school. Though our form rooms were a few steps across the corridor, I didn’t know him, but almost...

Harv hovers at the launderette. He chews another Nicorette while Eyeing his companion’s jacket For the outline cardboard packet.

Matt’s head peeped from behind our ensuite’s door. ‘You up for it again? Third try and fingers crossed?’ Legs crossed, more like.

My book, 'The Waggon', will shortly be published.... In this instance, the old adage write about what you know about is true. It is a...

7 September 2019 Tales from Firesides Generations Past Review of Duncan Williamson's 'Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children' 'Fireside...

​Rumer Godden's 'The Diddakoi' was made into a children's TV series called Kizzy when I was a little girl, and I couldn't tear myself away..

Sometimes wonderful writing creeps up on you by stealth. It may seem simplistic, perhaps overly so, or even naïve - or primitive. But...

Below is a review of a book published in 2011 about the Pretoria Pit Disaster which appeared in Wigan Heritage Service’s Bulletin "PAST...

Thirty years after Penny Taylor's death, Judith Taylor has published a book of her life, and it's a beautiful tribute to a wonderful woman.

I happened upon this little book recipes by chance, and was drawn to so much about it. Firstly, the format. ‘Recipes From The Past’ is a...