Mat Oxley
Book Shambles Extra
With Robin out of the country, and Josie on maternity leave, producer Trent Burton is taking up the hosting duties for a week. Which is appropriate as our guest for this Book Shambles Extra is author and journalist Mat Oxley. Mat is one of the world’s leading motorcycle writers, and motorcycling racing is Trent’s ‘other world’. They chat about Mat’s books including his latest Speed: The One Genuinely Modern Pleasure, as well as some of the great books and authors of fiction to tackle humankind’s speed fetish including Aldous Huxley, Hunter S Thompson, Hemingway and others.
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Reading List
Mat recommends
The work of Ernest Hemingway
Speed: The One Genuinely Modern Pleasure by Mat Oxley
They Saw it Happen by Matt Lewin
In Search of a New Pleasure by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson
Hell’s Angels by Hunter S Thompson
Lawrence of Arabia by TE Lawrence
Trent recommends:
An Age of Superheroes by Mat Oxley
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Stealing Speed by Mat Oxley
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Racing by Mat Oxley
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