Rebecca Peyton and Philippa Perry
Book Shambles
Robin is joined by author Lisa Blower this week to talk about her latest book, It’s All Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s. They chat about highlighting different voices in fiction, caravan holidays, Kit De Waal and the beauty of a novella.
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Reading List
Lisa recommends:
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
Dirty Laundry by Lisa Blower
My Name is Leon by Kit De Waal
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
The Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Milly-Molly-Mandy books by Joyce Lankester Brisley
All the Poems Contained Will Mean Everything to Everyone by Joe Dunthorne
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
The work of Kazuo Ishiguro
Mothers by Chris Powers
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Robin recommends:
It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s by Lisa Blower
Lowborn by Kerry Hudson
Others edited by Charles Fernyhough
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
Creating Freedom by Raoul Martinez
Crabs on the Rampage by Guy N. Smith
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
Common People edited by Kit de Waal
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
The work of Shirley Jackson
The work of Jean Rhys
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
A Girl is a Half Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
On Writing by Stephen King
On Writing by A.L. Kennedy
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