Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
Margaret Atwood
Glyn Maxwell
Janice Galloway
Rupert Thomson
John Burnside
David Harsent
Carl Hiaasen
Geoff Dyer
Nicola Barker
Bernard MacLaverty
Simon Armitage
Julian Barnes
Rick Moody
Paul Farley
Edna O’Brien
Andrew O’Hagan
Deborah Moggach
Thomas Lynch
D.B.C. Pierre
Val McDermid
William Boyd
William Trevor
Julie Myerson
James Lasdun
Maggie O’Farrell
Paul Muldoon
André Brink
Duncan McLean
Vicki Feaver
Paul Bailey
Matthew Sweeney
Chuck Palahniuk
John Hartley Williams
Margaret Drabble
Colm Tóibín
Louise Welsh
Mark Doty
Michael Ondaatje
James Wood
Patrick McCabe
Adam Thorpe
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Coe
Hugo Hamilton
Claire Messud
Michael Bracewell
Darryl Pinckney
Irvine Welsh
Andrew Motion
Karl Miller
Michael Longley
Hugo Williams
Elizabeth McCracken
Louis de Bernières
John Banville
Don Paterson
Michael Holroyd
Sean O’Reilly
Charles Simic
A.L. Kennedy
Carlo Gébler
Billy Collins
Ciaran Carson
Michael Donaghy
Thorn Gunn
Alan Warner
Roddy Doyle
John Lanchester
Anne Enright
Niall Griffiths
Biographies
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher