After writing the words on the outsides of several thousand books, I’ve decided to take a shot at the insides of one.

‘But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.’ – The House At Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

‘Poetry is precise a thing as geometry’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘There is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites.’ Carl Jung

‘It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

‘I never take on a client unless I can pitch their book in twelve words.’ UK literary agent

‘Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half’ John Wanamaker, US Postmaster General and marketing pioneer

‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.’ TV review of The Wizard of Oz

‘If you think you have a book evolving, now is the time to write the flap copy – the blurb’ Terry Pratchett