Toby Litt
Toby Litt grew up in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He has worked as a teacher, bookseller and subtitler. A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury’s creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, he is the author of two books of short stories, Adventures in Capitalism and Exhibitionism, and nine novels; most recently Life-Like. He won the Manchester Fiction Prize 2009 with his story ‘John and John’. He teaches at Birkbeck College.
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Toby Litt
‘I began to think, for no particular reason, about what the exact series of events would be were I to die at that moment – before, even, my coffee went cold.’
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Notes for a Young Gentleman
Toby Litt
‘A gentleman should greet with genuine warmth only the following persons – his sister’s daughters, his maternal aunts and his mortal enemies.’
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The Hare
Toby Litt
‘For some little while now I have been chasing a hare—buck or doe, I do not know.’