This week we’re visiting Erin Kelly, the critically acclaimed author adored by hundreds of thousands of readers – she’s been topping bestseller lists since the publication of her debut,The Poison Tree. Her latest novel,Stone Mothers,is an addictive story about love, lies and secrets. Erin is a reading addict and a true scholar of fiction. We talked about writing ambitions, failures that lead to success and being mentored by Ruth Rendell from beyond the grave.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Elaine Dundy – The Injured Party

Erin Kelly – The Poison Tree

Erin Kelly – Stone Mothers

Kerry Hudson – Thirst

Ruth Rendell – Make Death Love Me

Ruth Rendell – A Fatal Inversion

Donna Tartt – Secret History

Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited

Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca

CS Lewis – Chronicles of Narnia

Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jacqueline Wilson – Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson- The Suitcase Kid

Paula Danziger – Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Lois Duncan – Stranger With My Face

Lois Duncan – I Know What You Did Last Summer

Stephen King – Carrie

Virginia Andrews – Flowers in the Attic

Virginia Andrews – Garden of Shadows

JD Salinger – Catcher in the Rye

Norton Anthology of English Literature

Shelley Harris – Vigilante

Carol Ann Duffy – Collected Poems

Erin Kelly – He Said She Said

Erin Kelly – The Burning Air

Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl

SJ Watson – Before I Go To Sleep

Paula Hawkins – Girl On The Train

Andrea Newman – Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Andrea Newman – A Sense of Guilt

Andrea Newman –Three Into Two Won’t Go

Andrea Newman – A Share of the World

Daisy Johnson – Fen

Eley Williams – Attrib

Helen Simpson – Cockfosters

Anna Hope – Expectation

Anna Hope – The Ballroom

Sally Rooney –

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