Ben Machell & Maaza Mengiste
Book ShamblesIt’s a double header this week! First up Robin and Josie chat with journalist Ben Machell about his book, The Unusual Suspect: The Rise and Fall of a Modern-Day Outlaw and then in the second part Robin chats to Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
The Unusual Suspect: The Rise and Fall of a Modern-Day Outlaw by Ben Machell
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 by Anders Fager
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography by Tom Moore
Lighthouse by Tony Parker
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The work of Edith Wharton
The work of James Baldwin
The Monkey’s Mask by Dorothy Porter
Antigone by Sophocles
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Lowborn by Kerry Hudson
