Non-Fiction Books

This is a resource for pupils studying English at Key Stage four. Through investigative project work, activities and exercises, it seeks to stimulate pupils to consider central areas of language study. It covers the requirements for language study as defined by the National Curriculum.

Andrew Mayne, star of A&E’s Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne and ranked the fifth best-selling independent author of the year by Amazon UK, presents insider advice from marathon writing to how to create a professional book cover in just ten minutes.+ How to write a novella in 24 hours+ How to start building your empire+ How long should a story be?+ How to write a bestselling novel on your iPhone+ The secret to making a book cover (that mostly doesn’t suck) in 10 minutes or less+ Why you're staring at a blank screen+ One Weird Trick to Boost Your Creativity+ Your worst idea may be your greatest+ You suck at taking criticism+ The Curse of a Creative Mind

Why do some writers never seem to have a problem producing a nearly endless flow of stories while others find themselves perpetually staring at a blank page? In The Cure for Writer’s Block , Andrew Mayne, named Amazon UK’s top five best-selling author of the year, occasional television magician and prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction, including the Amazon #1 bestselling book on authorship, How to Write a Novella in 24 Hours , shares the secrets to unlocking your creative potential. From inception to completion, The Cure for Writer’s Block helps you diagnose what kind of writer’s block you’re experiencing and how to cure it. Writer’s Blank: When you really want to tell a story but have no idea what to tell. Writer’s Lock: When you have a great idea but just can’t figure out how to get started. Writer’s Knot: When you’re in the middle of your book and you don’t know where to go next or what happened to the passion. The Cure for Writer’s Block is presented in an easy-to-read format, includes quick summaries and “Try this” activities to help you build your creative problem-solving skills. Also included are 50 creativity boosters, designed to help you find a solution and engage your imagination.

Once a far off dream, colonizing Mars is a very real possibility with the announcement of SpaceX’s plan to get humans there in the next decade. But how do you pay for it? What are the economic benefits? Why haven’t we done it before? The answers might astound and surprise you as Mayne explains that colonizing Mars could lead to the biggest economic boom in history. Looking beyond Mars as a tourist destination or temporary source of novelty and treating Mars as a technology problem could usher in an age of innovation even greater than the microprocessor or the Internet. It’s not one thing or a single spin-off tech that will create trillions of dollars of new wealth; it’ll be the thousands of solutions and companies created as private capital and the technology industry focuses on the new age of human exploration. In How to Make Money on Mars, Mayne breaks down the different stages of economic opportunity using historical precedents and explains how to fund the first mission to ultimately turning Mars into the technology center of the Solar System. He illustrates the potential shortcomings of a Martian economy based primarily on tourism or resource exploitation and why it’s not necessary to find some single justifiable material or discovery that justifies exploration and how finding one could actually be counterproductive to overall Martian economic development. Topics covered include: Paying for Mars Martian start-ups Martian pharmaceutical technology Biotech on a dead planet Martian money Mars as a brand How to be a Martian while living on Earth The biggest challenge in understanding the economic potential of Mars has been that the problem was previously primarily addressed by scientists and science fiction writers examining the problem from a purely academic perspective or imagining some far future version of Mars disconnected from present day, drawing parallels to history that were too on the nose and didn’t address our changing economy. Martian economics approaches Mars as an economic opportunity, focusing on return on investment and emerging technologies. Andrew Mayne has been talking and writing about space economics for years through his books and award-winning science podcast. He helped develop an experiment performed onboard the International Space Station and has consulted on several space technology projects.