A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded. In Writing a Novel he offers up frameworks, strategies and stimuli to help you meet that duty, drawingon his deep experience as one of the UK's leading creative writing teachers.

Emphasises finding your own way into writing a novel, instead of dictating rules and regulations. Loaded with textual examples, inspiring quotations and things to try in your own work. Former students of Skinner's Faber academy include S.J. Watson and Felicia Yapp.