Using Stories and Humour - Grab Your Audience by Joanna Slan

Packed full of ideas, tips, techniques and exercises to help you understand and uncover stories, develop your own and other people's stories and tell them with impact and balance. An essential and comprehensive resource for all speakers.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The classic study, first published in 1949, of what it is that makes a story resonate with any audience across time, culture and context.

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking by Dale Carnegie

The classic introduction to the basic principles of speaking in public. Includes Carnegie's Magic Formula for speech presentation, first developed in 1912, the year the Titanic sank, but just as applicable today.

Handbook for the Terrified Speaker, Valium in a Volume by Mitch Murray

Sound and funny advice on how to overcome your 'creative apprehension' so you can research, prepare and deliver an after dinner presentation with humour.

Inspire Any Audience - Proven Secrets of the Pros for Powerful Presentations by Tony Jeary

Packed with checklists, tips, worksheets and wisdom on every aspect of presenting from defining your objectives to continuous improvement.

The Toastmasters Guide to Successful Speaking by Jeff Slutsky and Michael Aun

Great ideas for enhancing your speaking, using humour to make your point, effective audience participation, gesture and vocal variety, writing your own introduction and much more.

Presentations Plus by David A Peoples

With chapters on questioning, handling troublemakers, bad habits and distractions, team presentations, handouts and visuals, timing and how to get them back from the break, as well as numerous tips, checklists and worksheets for planning your presentation, this is a very useful book.

Speak and Grow Rich by Dottie Walters and Lilly Walters

Secrets of Successful Speakers - How You Can Motivate, Captivate & Persuade by Lilly Walters

Secrets of Superstar Speakers - Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time by Lilly Walters

Did I Ever Tell You About the Time... by Grady Jim Robinson

Subtitled how to develop and deliver a speech using stories that get your message across this book is a unique and complete guide from one of the world's master storytellers. Topics include to how to discover personal stories and how to tell them in a way which connects with your audience and has maximum impact and humour.