Books
Claire and the team have been involved in writing several books over the years, which she tells us about here:
“I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to John Simmons, who invited me to join business writers’ network 26 shortly after it was set up; and, to his colleagues Jamie Jauncey and Stuart Delves, with whom he founded the incomparable creative writing for business courses, Dark Angels – which, quite honestly changed my life. With these two groups I have worked on some fantastic creative projects. These include, the world’s first collective novel; a book about the oldest brands; and essays on writing more effectively for business. Our latest book, On Writing, prompted the Chartered Governance Institute to ask me to write their guide on how to ‘do corporate reporting’, which was published in June 2020.”
If you’d like to improve your own writing, you couldn’t do better than to join 26 and become a Dark Angel yourself. Follow the links to find out more about our books. If you’d like to buy one, please do support local bookshops where you can – failing that, you can click on the links below to get them from Amazon.
Published books
Trust me, I’m listed.
Why the annual report matters and how to do it well
Commissioned by The Chartered Governance Institute, Trust me, I'm listed is the essential guide to corporate reporting, and a must-read for any company secretary or corporate reporter. It's also, says Martin Vander Weyer, Business Editor, The Spectator, "an entertaining handbook on corporate reporting which offers golden rules of structure, clarity and brevity for writers of all kinds."
On Writing
If you read only one book on business writing, make it this one
Chapters on different aspects of writing by the twelve partners of the Dark Angels collective set out a comprehensive approach to writing more effectively for business.
Established: Lessons from the world’s oldest companies
From the oldest pub in the world to the Liberty Bell and the origins of a nation
Established tells the stories of twelve businesses with a combined age of almost 5,000 years. They’ve survived war, plague, rebellion, boom, bust, depression and strange twists of fate. But how and what can we learn from them?
Keeping Mum
In May 2014, Unbound published Keeping Mum
The world’s first crowd-funded collective novel, by the Dark Angels Collective. Telling the story of a family coming to terms with bereavement, it is by turns poetic, comic, psychological, philosophical, and moving. Full of secrets and lies, it's an adventure in writing.