Write effectively: a quick course for busy health professionals. This is the right book if you are looking for a way of brushing up your writing skills generally - or have specific writing problems to solve. The book is designed to be gone through quickly as a course - by individuals or in groups.

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Winning the publications game (3rd edition). This book applies the principles laid down in Write Effectively, but applies them specifically to the task of writing a journal article – and getting it published. If you are specifically interested in writing a scientific paper, then this is the right book for you.

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Highly commended 2001 British Medical Association Medical Book Competition

A-Z of Medical Writing – this is a book to dip into, and has alphabetically arranged entries from Abbreviations and Absolutes to Yellow Marker Test and Zzzz (restful sleep – a precious commodity for writers).

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Medical journalism: the writer’s guide. The first book, written in the early 1990s. Explains how to write a feature article for a newspaper or magazine. Some copies are still around.Some of the principles still stand (and were developed in the other books), but  some things have changed. Who puts an article in the post these days?

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