This week, Susan and Sinéad welcome the fantastic ER (Elizabeth) Murray to the podcast, for a freewheeling and wide-ranging discussion about how books not only shape lives, but also save lives. Elizabeth shares the books that gave her solace and shelter as a young reader, the stories which shape her reading now - including her interest in reading beyond her own cultural sphere, with the aim of enriching her writerly craft - and the first book where, she says, voices and experiences like hers were reflected on the page. Come and join us for this fantastic episode of Storyshaped.
Find Elizabeth online at:
www.instagram.com/elizabethrosemurray
Books mentioned in this episode include Elizabeth's own:
The Book of Learning, ER Murray
The Book of Shadows, ER Murray
The Book of Revenge, ER Murray
Caramel Hearts, ER Murray
Women on Nature, ed. Katharine Norbury
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Brambly Hedge, written and illustrated by Jill Barklem
What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry
The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, by Thomas Gray
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights, by Charlotte Bronte
Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines
Sweet Valley Twins/Sweet Valley High, created by Francine Pascal
Other Words for Smoke, by Sarah Maria Griffin
Junk, by Melvin Burgess
Tangleweed and Brine, by Deirdre Sullivan
Savage Her Reply, by Deirdre Sullivan
Interview With the Vampire, by Anne Rice
Flowers in the Attic, by Virginia Andrews
Jill's Gymkhana, by Ruby Ferguson
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
Collected Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Collected Poems, by Seamus Heaney
His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
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