I was very kindly given an e-ARC of this book via Granta and Netgalley.

If there were ever a book that could pull me out of the odd stupor I often find myself in as a writer, Hattie Crisell's 'In Writing' is going to be that book. Not content with pulling great pieces of advice from a single writer, it traverses success across all writing mediums from screenwriters to poets to novelists to journalists. Most are collected from her podcast interviews of the same name, but Crisell has gone one step further and collated them together under certain categories. So, when you need a boost in a jam and it's a very specific boost, you can find it in a very specific chapter.

I really enjoyed this book. Certainly if you're an author in a particular medium, you'll get more from certain people - as a screenwriter and playwright, I paid particular attention to the advice of Jesse Armstrong, Lucy Prebble, Emily St John Mandel and Georgia Pritchett - but you will always find a nugget of something incredibly useful in a writer you've never heard of.

It did take me quite a long time to finish this book, but I like to think it's because I wanted to absorb as much as I could and really take my time understanding how these writers continue to write without just wanting to lie on the floor all the time. I definitely want to get a copy of this - I highlighted a few passages in the Kindle version and need to come back to them. Writers, bump this to the top of your TBR when it comes out in November or enjoy some episodes of the original podcast in the meantime.

'In Writing' will be available from November 7th.