Back to Creative Writing School doesn’t prescribe a formula for writing a bestseller. There are other books – good books – that can help with that.

It’s about using 30 imaginative exercises to experiment with new ideas.
It’s about defeating the blank page.
It’s about producing the best kind of writing you can achieve.

Accessible, practical, useful advice from a true professional; what more could you want? I recommend this book to all my students, and I recommend it to you. Great stuff. Alex Pheby, Head of Creative Writing, University of Greenwich, UK

It's more than a writer's handbook - it's a book which anyone could read and if they did they would probably find their pleasure in words and the world heightened. Lizzie Enfield, author of What You Don’t Know and Uncoupled