Tanita Tikaram
Season 6, Episode 18
Singer-Songwriter Tanita Tikaram visited Robin and Josie in the Book Shambles studio armed with a bag of her favourite books. There’s talk of Maya Angelou, Patrick Hamilton, Margaret Rutherford and the launching of a campaign to get some of Dorothy Porter’s work reissued.
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Reading List
Tanita recommends:
All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Monkey’s Mask by Dorothy Porter
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Rope by Patrick Hamilton
Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Dawn: A Charleston Legend by Dawn Langley Simmons
Caroline: A Mystery by Cornelius Medvei
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Josie recommends:
The Village Against the World by Dan Hancox
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
Catcher in The Rye by JD Salinger
The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets edited by Jeni Couzyn
Robin recommends:
Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Our Hidden Lives by Simon Garfield
The Wrestling by Simon Garfield
Margaret Rutherford: A Blithe Spirit by Dawn Langley Simmons
Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought with Good Manners by Andy Merriman
The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns
Giacometti by Francis Morris and Lena Fritsch
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
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