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The Books That Built Me
by 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
Episodes
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Jake Arnott
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.
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Sarah Perry
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…
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Sara Manning
In this episode Sara Manning talks to Helen Brocklebank about the regency books of Georgette Heyer.
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Ticky Hedley-Dent
Ticky Hedley-Dent by Helen Brocklebank
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Janet Ellis
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
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Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell by Helen Brocklebank
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Trump's America: why post-truth politics is stranger than fiction
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.
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Jill Dawson
Jill Dawson by Helen Brocklebank
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Louisa Treger
Louisa Treger, author of The Lodger, talks about forgotten modernist pioneer Dorothy Richardson, her work and her relationship with H.G.Wells.
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Alex Peake-Tomkinson on memoir
In this episode Alex and Helen talk about the genre of Memoir
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Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes by Helen Brocklebank
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Emma Beddington
Emma Beddington by Helen Brocklebank
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Louis de Bernières
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.
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Polly Samson
Polly Samson by Helen Brocklebank
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Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn by Helen Brocklebank
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Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver by Helen Brocklebank
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Helen Lederer
Helen Lederer by Helen Brocklebank
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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
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Helen Brocklebank
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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...
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The Books That Built Me is created and hosted by Helen Brocklebank.
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