‘Life-Like’ is the new book of short stories by UEA alumnus Toby Litt and has just been published by Seagull Press. Toby graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1995 and was included in the 2003 Granta list of Best of Young British Novelists. He is the author of nine novels and two previous collections of short fiction and was last year shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for ‘Call It “The Bug” Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title’. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.