Setting & Description François-Luc Giraldeau The Beauty of Everyday Things

The Beauty of Everyday Things is a call for each of us to deepen our relationship with the objects that surround us

Valerio Olgiatis's latest book is about the beauty of the very varied buildings he has realized to date

and Pamela Shamshiri

They also serve as a pathway into the rigorous and imaginative scholarship that characterised Judith Binney's acclaimed historical writing

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Setting & Description François-Luc Giraldeau The Beauty of Everyday ThingsWhy does an author set their story where and when they do? How do you describe places and make them real for your reader? Why might you build contrast between multiple settings in your story? In this useful little book, educator Amy Jones describes the various options available to writers for setting their stories in space and time, and outlines the tried and tested literary tricks which authors use to paint these places so vividly in the imagination