Kiri Pritchard-McLean & George Egg
Book Shambles Live
First episode of six recorded live at Edinburgh Fringe, in this episode Robin chats to comedian and co-host of All Killa No Filla, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and comedian and DIY chef George Egg. They chat best books about serial killers, favourite cookery books, the precarious crossover of the two and home made Russian antennas.
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Reading List
Kiri recommends:
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Secret of Terror Castle by Robert Arthur Jr
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein by Harold Schiechter
The work of David Wilson
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Brown
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
My Friend Dahmer by Derf
Microwave Cooking for One by Marie T. Smith
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
George recommends:
The Uninvited by Clive Harold
Chocky by John Wyndham
The Tripods series of books by John Christopher
The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen
The work of Nigel Slater
Booze: River Cottage Handbook by John Wright
The work of Elizabeth David
The collected writings of Hugh Fearnley Whittingstal
Taste Matters by John Prescott
Cooked by Michael Pollan
Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artefacts by Vladimir Arkhipov
Robin recommends:
Dead Funny and Dead Funny Encore edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
Pan Book of Horror Stories
The Encyclopaedia of Witchcraft and Demonology by Rossell Hope Robbins
The Spear by James Herbert
To the Devil a Daughter by Dennis Wheatley
Killing for Company by Brian Masters
The Saddest Sound by Deborah Delano
Felicity’s Journey by William Trevor
As If by Blake Morrison
Redeemable by Erwin James
Cooking Price-Wise by Vincent Price
The work of Colin Wilson
Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger by Nigel Slater
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
The Communist Manifesto: A Graphic Novel by Martin Rowson
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