Stories are everywhere...

Exploring the great plots from Plato to The Matrix and from Tolstoy to Toy Story, this is a book for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative and learn to create their own. With startling and original insights into how we construct stories, this is a creative writing book like no other. It will show you how to read and write better.

"Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great storyteller." - * Financial Times *

"Ingenious and original . . . A cracking good yarn, fizzing with intelligence." - * Philip Pullman on THE END OF MR Y *

"This book might just change your life." - * Independent on Sunday, on PopCo *

"A sprawling ode to curiosity and the life of the mind." - * Daily Telegraph, on The End of Mr Y *

"Whether you want to write or not, Monkeys with Typewriters is the kind of book that renews your enthusiasm for reading in general, a book that believes - and encourages its readers to believe - that great fiction matters" - * Follow the Thread *

"Thomas. . . eschews the self-flagellating ethic of some courses by preaching tolerance for fancy prose style, and exhorts her readers to be ambitious and "ask important questions" with their fiction, an admirable stand" - * Observer *