The phrase "advice manual" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a document or book that provides guidance or recommendations on a specific topic.
Example: "The advice manual on financial planning offers valuable tips for saving and investing wisely."
Alternatives: "guidance manual" or "instruction manual".
For more timid spirits, there is a newly revised advice manual.
The book was initially intended as an advice manual for widows, cobbled together from the author's contemporary journals.
"Gospel" was, as Mr. Nasaw describes it, "a primer on the workings of political economy and an advice manual for millionaires".
Unlike the autobiographies by Mr. Iacocca and Mr. Welch, which sold in the millions, Mr. Bossidy's book is an advice manual, traditionally a tougher sell.
You can watch Hornby on Vimeo, talking about how she had the idea while reading Rosalind Wiseman's Queen Bees and Wannabes, the advice manual on which Tina Fey based her screenplay for the movie Mean Girls.
Machiavelli's Prince is not a practical advice manual aimed at any specific individual - rather it creates a fantastic creature, a kind of armoured colossus bestriding (and in Machiavelli's precocious dream, uniting) Italy.
Many later advice manuals derive from it.
Advice manuals, including ones that were explicitly sexual, provide some clues as to why this was so.
A wide range of TV personalities — Chelsea Handler, Kate Gosselin, Bethenny Frankel, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Kathy Griffin, Melissa Gilbert, Mary Tyler Moore and Tori Spelling — have all produced memoirs and advice manuals recently.
Ballet plotlines, doo-wop songs, surrealist paintings, black and white films, things I read in the Fortean Times, romantic advice manuals from the middle ages to now, conversations I've eavesdropped on.
What is striking about these stories is that they totally reverse the central premise of the sexual advice manuals: that sex will be traumatic for the bride and requires moderation.
