The Books That Built Me: Recent Episodes
Helen Brocklebank
The Books That Built Me: the books that inspire your favourite authors. The Books that Bult Me is a live event - a literary salon in which Helen Brocklebank talks to authors about six of their favourite books and traces the connection between reading and writing. Tickets to the live event are available through eventbrite
Jake talked to The Books That Built Me about six authors that inspired his writing, from Blake's depiction of London in Songs of Innocence and Experience, to the allure of pirates in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and how Patricia Highsmith sparked a fascination with elegant sociopaths.
Sarah Perry is the author of the best-selling and award-winning The Essex Serpent : she and I discussed the passions and obsessions behind that novel, as well as about six books that inspired her as a writer, from Hilary Mantel's memoir, Giving up the Ghost, to Foxe's Book of Martyrs Jake Arnott's latest novel, The Fatal Tree, tells the story of Edgworth Bess and her Moll-Flanders-esque life in the heart of the 18th century criminal underworld.
In this episode Sara Manning talks to Helen Brocklebank about the regency books of Georgette Heyer.
Janet Ellis talks about the books that have inspired her writing: The Golden Treasury of Poetry, National Velvet, The Bad Seed, Strangers on a Train, Good Behaviour and Candia McWilliams What To Look for In Winter
Lionel Shriver and Professor Sarah Churchwell in conversation about one of the strangest U.S. elections in living memory, whether the Trump phenomenon has any historical precedent, and what the future holds. Recorded at Mark's Club, Mayfair, 12th October 2016.
Louisa Treger, author of The Lodger, talks about forgotten modernist pioneer Dorothy Richardson, her work and her relationship with H.G.Wells.
Louis de Bernières discusses six books that have inspired his work with Helen Brocklebank, host of The Books That Built Me. In this podcast he talks about why poetry will always be his first love, the importance of Latin America to his work, and why he is always trying to write his War and Peace.