The Books That Built Me
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The Books That Built Me
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 avail...
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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 Experie...
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,...
Sara Manning
In this episode Sara Manning talks to Helen Brocklebank about the regency books of Georgette Heyer.
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,...
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...
Louisa Treger
Louisa Treger, author of The Lodger, talks about forgotten modernist pioneer Dorothy Richardson, her work and her relationship with H.G.Wells.
Alex Peake-Tomkinson on memoir
In this episode Alex and Helen talk about the genre of Memoir
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...
