This week we are investigating the reading habits of a genuine superstar. Kate Mosse OBE is the award-winning author of nine books of fiction including the bestselling Languedoc trilogy and her latest novel City of Tears that is currently topping the bestseller charts. She is the co-founder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and a guest presenter of BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read. We talked to Kate about the importance of libraries, vintage crime, meeting your public and the greatness of Toni Morrison.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan – Insatiable
Kate Mosse – City of Tears
Ngaio Marsh – Collection
Josephine Tey – Daughter of Time
Margery Allingham – Tiger in the Smoke
Patricia Wentworth – Listening Eye
Agatha Christie – Body in the Library
Katherine Heiny – Early Morning Riser
Katherine Heiny – Standard Deviation
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
Anna Burns – No Bones
Anna Burns – Milkman
Toni Morrison – Bluest Eye
Gayl Jones – Corregidora
Eimear McBride – Girl is a Half Formed Thing
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer – Madness of a Seduced Woman
Lionel Shriver – We Need To Talk About Kevin
Agatha Christie – Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Melissa Broder – The Pisces
Melissa Broder – Milk Fed
Ottessa Moshfegh – My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Lucy Ellmann – Ducks, Newburyport
Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
Ali Smith – Autumn
Margaret Atwood – Negotiating With The Dead
Naoise Dolan – Exciting Times
Russell Ash – Readers Digest Book of Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain
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