Ep. 5: The Reading List

Breaking out from under the duvet, this time recording in a French kitchen at the foot of Mont Blanc. A different format this week, the Pebble Inspector Podcast looks back at the last few months of reading during the Creative Writing & Literature Studies Master’s course at Lancaster University. Over an hour and a quarter of me reeling off 40 titles with no notes or plan but what I remember of them. I also completely forgot to mention two entire books but I’m on holiday so I’m not rerecording (listed below). Works cited: The Tent Margret Atwood The Heart In Winter Kevin Barry The Years Annie Ernaux The Truth About Babies Ian Sansom A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers Short Cuts & Will You Please Be Quiet? Raymond Carver Selected Poems Thomas Kinsella  Grief Is A Thing With Feathers Ant Colony Michael Deforge A Shock Keith Ridgeway Salt Slow Julia Armfield West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss Jim Perrin A New Path To The Waterfall Raymond Carver  In Another Country David Constantine  The Third Policeman Flann O’Brien The Power Naomi Alderman The Testaments Margret Atwood Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin Essex Serpent Sarah Perry A Maggot John Fowles Paradise Toni Morrison Gilead Marilynne Robinson Hey Nostradamus Douglas Coupland Home Fire Kamilla Shamsie  Fen Daisy Johnson Constellations: Reflections From Life Sinead Gleeson Topographia Hibernica Blindboy Boatclub Rock As Gloss Mark Goodwin The Emigrants W.G. Sebald Selected Poems Paul Celan  Paris: A Poem Hope Mirrlees The Waves Virginia Woolf Endgame Samuel Beckett Intimations Zadie Smith The Periodic Table Primo Levi Dance Move Wendy Erskine Possession A. S. Byatt Brief Interviews With Hideous Men David Foster Wallace The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed Mariana Enriquez Poetries In English Not mentioned but also read: The Gospel Of Órla Eoughan Walls The Dalkey Archive Flann O’Brien New episode every Friday. www.jamesgraywriter.co.uk