How to Be a Writer

Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

Marcus Berkmann author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:7th Jun '22

£16.99

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How to Be a Writer cover

Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this one. He reckons to have written literally millions of words in that time, several of them in the right order. This, his 13th or possibly 14th book, is about those years of writing: the triumphs (few), the heartbreaks (many), the sackings (more than you would expect), the biscuits (many, many more than you would expect). In it he somehow makes the act of staring out of a window wondering what to say next seem both fascinating and, in some strange way, enviable, whereas, like most writers, he rarely leaves the house other than to go to the pub or the off-licence. Often asked how you become a writer, his advice remains: Please do not. There's already enough competition out there and we don't need any more. His advance for this book was about enough to buy a packet of Jaffa Cakes.

Berkmann is one of our funniest writers -- Craig Brown
Berkmann is highly entertaining ... with an anarchic Monty Pythonesque sense of fun -- Alain de Botton

ISBN: 9781408713839

Dimensions: 218mm x 138mm x 24mm

Weight: 320g

208 pages