Recommended Reads

Novels

I love pretty much anything by Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Ann Tyler, Barbara Trapido, Isabel Allende, and Sebastian Faulks.

Other favourite novels include:

• The Rotters Club, Jonathan Coe
• Not Wanted on The Voyage, Timothy Finlay
• Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
• When Rain Clouds Gather, Bessie Head
• The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes, Annie Proulx

Short Stories

• No-one Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
• For Esme, With Love and Squalour, J.D.Salinger
• After Rain, William Trevor
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro

Poetry

• The Adoption Papers, Jackie Kay
• Belfast Confetti, Ciaran Carson
• Kid, Simon Armitage
• The Fat Black Woman’s Poems, Grace Nichols
• Can Dentists Be Trusted?, Martina Evans