Richard Coles
Book Shambles
On this week’s episode Robin is joined by the Reverend Richard Coles to talk about his literary inspirations and loves growing up as a nerdy kid in Kettering, finding God, a love of diaries and how the process of writing about grief after the loss of his partner David, which would become the book The Madness of Grief.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
The Madness of Grief by Reverend Richard Coles
The work of Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
The work of Leon Uris
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
The Orton Diaries by Joe Orton
The work of Quentin Crisp
I, of All People by James Kirkup
This is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay
Women For Peace: Banners From Greenham Common by Charlotte Dew
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Kenneth Williams
My Sister And Myself: The Diaries Of J. R. Ackerley by J.R. Ackerley
Diaries, 1942-1954 by James Lees-Milne
The Denton Welch Journals by Denton Welch and Jocelyn Brooke
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
Kilvert’s Diary by Francis Kilvert
Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn
The Complete Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
The work of Philip Larkin
Sir John Betjeman’s Banana Blush
The Wishing-Chair by Enid Blyton
The Dick and Dora books
The Ant and Bee books
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