Non-Fiction
The Complete Book of Business Letters - The Essential Writing Reference Guide (1989, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994,
revised and updated 1995, 1999, 2001, 2004)
Pennon Business , 276 p, paperback
This book also appears under the title, The Encyclopedia of Business Letters
It is a book of format letters which can be used to standardise all ‘mundane’ correspondence.
Most editions include an accompanying disk.
The book also contains structures (suggestions and prompts) for direct mail
marketing, media release and other important communications.
People who will enjoy it: Business people who have letters to write, teachers
of Communication subjects and people who are interested in practical writing.
Available from:
• Your local book shop.
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Your local library. If they haven’t got it, ask for inter-library loan.
Raving on:
This is clearly my most enduring book. Strangely, it is also the only manuscript
I have ever lost – as distinct from ‘destroyed’.
I first wrote The Handbook of Letters in 1986 as a ghosting job that never
came to fruition. Four years later, when the idea was mooted that I write the
book under my own name, I couldn’t find the original manuscript. So I
wrote it again, from scratch. This was the 1989-1990 edition, the blue one.
Although this edition is commonplace, for example in libraries, it is clearly
not the best one. The revised and updated edition is the best one. |
