STACKED: What’s on Rochelle Dowden-Lord's Shelf

A book that inspired Lush quite a lot...Very good book but very hard to recommend...Its about a murderer, a murderer of women. But what I loved about it is the fact that the entire narrative is obsessed with scent in the way that I needed the entire narrative of Lush to be obsessed with wine and wine notes.

My debut novel is about a group of strangers who are invited to drink the oldest bottle of wine in the world. They go to the South of France, and they all work in the wine industry in one way or another. And as they drink bottles and bottles and bottles of wine together, they have to reconcile with their secrets and their insecurities amongst these people who've become intensely familiar in that way that happens on holiday when you're drinking a lot of wine.

Cormac McCarthy is my favourite author, mainly because this is the first novel that showed me that novels can be magic. I was a big reader before this, I read it when I was 16, but reading was more of a pastime rather than something that started to feel religious once I read this.

I did not expect it to change my life the way it did...It's so lyrical and beautiful, and the sentences are exquisitely structured. It's about two young men who are in the US Army in the 1850s and they stumble across a young girl. I won't say anymore, I think this is a book that I like people to just go into without knowing too much about. So do it, read it!

Just magnificent...It is the end of the Second World War, and the English patient is being looked after by a nurse. It is so romantic and so beautiful. This is a huge favorite.

This is just beautiful and wild and I hadn't ever read anything like it. When I read this, I knew Smart was (also) a Sagittarius!

Diaz is a flippin storyteller. I love how masterful he is at keeping all the strands together and keeping you engaged when there is so much information.

I like trees as much as the next girl, but after this, I wanted to go out and do some hugging. I was weeping about weeping willows!

The narrative is just delicious. If you are a big reader, you'll love Stoner.

James Baldwin is one of my hugest inspirations when it comes to writing.