The word "afterword" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a short piece of writing that is often added to the end of a book, written by the author or another person. An example of using it in a sentence would be: "The afterword in this book provides additional insight into the story's themes and characters."
"These photographs document ancient customs originating [in] pagan beliefs – voodooesque forms of totem worship," he writes in his afterword.
Using the "colouring and locations of memoir" (as noted in an afterword), "The Cat's Table" charts the 21-day sea voyage of an 11-year-old boy named Michael, who travels from Ceylon to England in 1954 to join a mother he has not seen for years.
Nevertheless, Mr Lodge writes in his afterword to "Author, Author" that he learnt of Mr Toibin's novel only when he had finished his own.
In an "Afterword" he writes that while the broad outline and most of the details are true, he found the demands of history and the demands of art to be somewhat different.
He addresses this in the new book's afterword: "What about ideology?
The apotheosis of this is a speech, by a member of the Chinese politburo, which goes on, unedited, for ten whole pages.In an afterword, Mr Mankell acknowledges the need to "correctly present important details".
In an afterword, generously composed in a style entirely in keeping with the rest, Margaret Macmillan, a descendant of Lloyd George's and author of her own book on the allies' peace talks, makes clear that he wanted a settlement that would prevent more wars and not simply punish.
IN AN afterword Martin Gayford says that he would like his book about the painter, John Constable, to give the same pleasure that a novel would.
Keynes would have interpreted this as an extreme outbreak of liquidity-preference, says Paul Davidson, whose biography of the master has just been republished with a new afterword.
In an afterword, Mr Ziegler says he was struck by the similarities between Olivier and Mountbatten; and he quotes, as referring to both, the last line of his Mountbatten biography.
It frames the book in a short prologue and an afterword.
