Kate Davies
Book Shambles
Kate Davies debut novel, In at the Deep End, comes out this week. Josie read an advanced copy and fell in love with it so we got Kate into the studio to chat about it with her and Robin. Not only that, she came armed with a list of her favourite books divided into categories! So the three of them dig into the best sexy, queer and funny books from Zadie Smith to Diana Athill, Stephen Fry and beyond.
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Reading List
Kate recommends:
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The work of David Nicholls
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen McLeod
Stet: An Editor’s Life by Diana Athill
Alive, Alive Oh! by Diana Athill
Voices from the Second World War from Candlewick Press
Educated by Tara Westover
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Josie recommends:
In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
Life After Death bu Damien Echols
An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinski
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hand Kureishi
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Make Believe by Diana Athill
Waiting for the Last Bus by Richard Holloway
Robin recommends:
Proletarian Literature in the United States: An Anthology edited by Granville Hicks
The Pan Book of Horror Stories
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Read All About Me by Oliver Reed
White Line Fever by Lemmy
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
The work of Tove Jansson
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus
Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh
Lighthouse by Tony Parker
The Violence of Our Lives by Tony Parker
Bird, Kansas by Tony Parker
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