Nina Stibbe 'I read a few pages of Moby Dick and switched to Jaws'
over 5 years in The guardian
The author on being inspired by Sue Townsend, frightened by Beatrix Potter – and the monologue she wishes she’d written
The book I am currently readingDear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink, a glorious part-memoir, part-love letter to books.
The book that changed my lifeI studied humanities at Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich); we read James Baldwin, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Cyprian Ekwensi,Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing and lumped Charles Dickens in with Carla Lane and Phil Redmond. It was a good start. I owe a lot to my tutors. Continue reading...
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