This month’s show is hosted Victoria Robson and Cindy Etherton, co-founders of Real

Writers Circle, a Brighton-based a community of writers who meet monthly to share work, support, and friendship. Victoria and Cindy talk to Circle members Ciar Byrne, Jackie Mendoza and Kate Marsh about their favourite books and their influence on their writing. And they catch up with RWC member Samuel Burr and his editor Charlotte Mursell at Orion Publishing on Sam’s debut novel The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers.



Favourite Books Mentioned in the Show:

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

La Terre by Emil Zola

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr (available in May)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman



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Real Writers Circle: @Real_Writers_

Cindy Etherton: @CindyEtherton4

Victoria Robson: @victoriarobson

Ciar Byrne: @ciarbyrne

Jackie Mendoza: @writerandhounds

Kate Marsh: @k8marsh

Samuel Burr: @samuelburr

Charlotte Mursell: @Charlo_Murs



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