Zena Barrie
Book Shambles
Author Zena Barrie joins Book Shambles today to chat to Robin about her first novel, Your Friend Forever. They chat about what made the former theatre manager write her first book, how autobiographical it is and how in her youth she would write to loads of celebrities although the only people that ever replied was Kelloggs, the cereal company. There’s also chat on Adrian Mole, Lemn Sissay, Scottish pop music and a whole lot more.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
Your Friend Forever by Zena Barrie
Starlust: Secret Life of Fans Paperback by Fred Vermorel & Judy Vermorel
The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living by Pat Kane
Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister by Rebecca Peyton
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
Lowborn by Kerry Hudson
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (And Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
The Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton
Misery by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death by Katy Wix
WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
Devotion by Patti Smith
Just Kids by Patti Smith
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