TOBY LITT grew up in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He has worked as a teacher, bookseller and subtitler. A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury’s Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, Toby is best known for writing his books – from Adventures in Capitalism to Lilian's Spell Book – in alphabetical order; he is currently working on ‘P’. He is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and a regular on Radio 3’s The Verb. His story ‘John and John’ won the Manchester Fiction Prize, and his most recent short story collection, Life-like, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Prize and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. Toby teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College.

Toby’s memoir, Wrestliana, was published by Galley Beggar Press in May 2018. His most recent novel, Patience, was published by Galley Beggar Press in September 2019 - and was shortlisted for the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize.  

To read the first chapter of Wrestliana, click here, and the first chapter of Patience, here.  You can buy a copy of Wrestliana here, and a copy of Patience here.