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Toby Litt is one of that rare breed of fiction writers who never writes the same book twice: every time out, he takes an unexpected new tack--and his readers happily follow.

?Told in the form of the pithy, even lyrical advice a young soldier leaves behind after a mission gone wrong, Notes for a Young Gentleman is no exception. Its brilliantly creative form, and the epigrammatic genius Litt displays in its creation, nonetheless can't hide the powerful, emotional story at its heart: of a young soldier parachuting toward a beautiful, moonlit country house on a mission . . . of...

Toby Litt is best known for his -hip-lit- fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always taken an unusual, hybrid form. In Mutants, he applies his restless creativity to nonfiction. The book brings together twenty-six essays on a range of diverse topics, including writers and writing, and the technological world that informs and underpins it. Each essay is marked by Litt's distinct voice, heedless of formal conventions and driven by a curiosity and a determination to give even the shortest piece enough conceptual heft to make it...

A major new creative writing guide from one of the UK's leading editors and authors. This book contains invaluable insights from practising writers working in British universities across the whole spectrum of writing fiction. Keeps the craft and learning-and-teaching very much in mind. Each chapter features a favourite creative writing exercise and three golden rules for writers. A unique, cutting-edge resource, that will be essential reading for students of Creative Writing.