Ah yes, I do love that book Andy, it is very well written and easy to follow and fits in with primarily an Ericksonian approach to hypnosis. Thanks for mentioning that one.

You recommended “Training Trances” in your course prerequisites for last year, although we never actually discussed it in the classes.
I particularly like the way that this book is a direct transcript of a hypnosis training seminar, and as such, is almost like being there. There is clever use of typography to enable analogue marking, and a really nice embedded command that I find myself following every time I read through it.

Another book that I highly recommend is “Monsters and Magical Sticks“.
This is not a technical manual, but a series of anecdotes. There are useful style tips to pick up, but the main reason that I love this book is that it does a great job of explaining what we do in terms that are accessible to all. I also particularly like the central premise of the book that “there is no such thing as hypnosis”, with the justification that “all communication is hypnotic“