Clare Mackintosh & Curdella Forbes
Book Shambles
Today Josie and Robin are joined by two brilliant authors, Curdella Forbes and Clare Mackintosh. First up they chat to Curdella about her new book, A Tall History of Sugar, and the blending of fact and fiction in that latest, acclaimed novel. In the second interview they are joined by multiple Sunday Times bestseller Clare Mackintosh and chat about the real life tragedy behind her latest novel After the End.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
After the End by Clare Mackintosh
Cotton Comes to Harlam by Chester Himes
Lang’s Fair Books by Andrew Lang and Leonora Blanche Alleyne
Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Gender Advertisements by Erving Goffman
Stigma by Erving Goffman
I Found You by Lisa Jewell
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
The work of Michael Moorcock
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The work of Jenny Colgan
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
The Owl Service by by Alan Garner
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi
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