Welcome back to coverage of our third Year of the Lads book, Playing to Win, featuring those mad lads Colin MacDuff and (Lord) Andrew Sunderland.

Subscribers to my newsletter can now read a “development diary” I kept during the creation of Playing to Win, from Day 1 of Draft 1 through the rewriting phase to final copyedits. It’s a jaw-droppingly unfiltered look at the process of creating a novel. The only change I made was to assign real-life people nicknames to protect thei...