Five Analogies for Fiction Writing is a new and invaluable book for writers seeking to move beyond the initial stages of writing to the completion of stories and novels. Sam North has published eight novels and written two films. He was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize for his first novel, The Automatic Man, and Man Booker longlisted for The Unnumbered. Currently he works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter. "e;North excels at giving substance and dignity to the dispossessed or dispossessing"e;"e; (Elizabeth Speller, review of 'The Velvet Rooms' in the Guardian). "e;A timely reflection of the process and craft of writing in the twenty-first century"e; (Katy Shaw, University of Brighton).
