For a guy who once thought that books were excruciatingly tedious, John Purcell has made quite the career from selling, reading, and writing them. He opened his own secondhand bookshop in his 20s, wrote a trilogy of bestselling erotica novels, and is now the Head of Books at Australian online bookshop, Booktopia. As part of that job, he's quizzed over a thousand of the world's brightest, bestselling writers.
Here John tells Angus Dalton about his oddball bookshop customers, how Catch-22 and 50 Shades of Grey kicked off his career as a published writer, and his satirical, sexy new novel, The Girl on the Page.
Books discussed:
The Girl on the Page by John Purcell: http://bit.ly/2QrLvDH
The Secret Lives of Emma by Natasha Walker: http://bit.ly/2zQqf5n
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: http://bit.ly/2Rp6bNZ
50 Shades of Grey by E L James: http://bit.ly/2Oy167w
Normal People by Sally Rooney: http://bit.ly/2Oy1bbk
Listen to John's podcast over at Booktopia here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/podcasts/
