With a foreword from Booker Prize winner and former student, Anne Enright, and introductions from Giles Foden, George Szirtes, Kathryn Hughes and Val Taylor, this 2008 collection of writing from UEA’s prestigious creative writing MA comes highly recommended.

It will take readers on a journey from the swirling mudflats of a very English estuary to the sweat of a Bombay love affair; from the last, frightened moments of Che Guevara’s life to a swarm of miniature pigs at a family party in small-town America. On the way it takes in everything from a future England where atheists are deported, to the peculiar birth of a baby with no personality.

The course has produced many successful, well-loved and prize-winning authors, such as Ian McEwan, Tracy Chevalier, Trezza Azzopardi, Toby Litt, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Boyne, Susan Fletcher – step inside for an exciting glimpse of names that might soon be among them.

“To all of you with Blurb-fatigue: we always say that this group of writers is exceptionally gifte4d, promising, and startlingly original. I won’t lie: they actually are all of that, and more. Sorry to have got your hopes up. Established writers will wish we’d strangled this lot at birth.” — Trezza Azzopardi