The best books to help you write your novel

Every aspiring book writer needs to start somewhere, and there are few places better to start than… well, books. We’re not just talking the novels hat inspire you – presumably, you’ve already read those – but the handbooks, manuals, and how-to guides from the authors and writers who have mastered prose and style that will help turn your writerly dreams into reality.

Here, we round up a handful of the best books to help get your first novel off the ground – or, at least, into a workable first draft.