What Writers Read by Pandora Sykes

What Writers Read by Pandora SykesA WATERSTONES NON FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are

The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy

and urban myths relaying tales of foghorns in speaker stacks

A Monk's Guide to Happiness explains how and why we need to look within

'The writing is near perfect

compulsive Wikipedia readers and those looking for the sort of gift they buy for someone else and wind up keeping for themselves

her early forays into the Dublin music scene

twisted lies

how the capital has cried out for a book like this

from micro aggressions to intergenerational trauma' Guardian 'Timely and important

beautiful and sometimes dryly comic arguments with which to defend ourselves against panic and confusion

Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time

a sinister figure watches from the shadows - an individual she believes has already killed twice