Dr Andrea Ashworth/AJ Ashworth Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Writer. Best British Short Stories 2021. Edge Hill Prize shortlist. Lecturer @edgehill. Associate Lecturer @lancaster_words. Associate Editor @SFITAPJournal.

The Lighthouse
Alison Moore
I'm looking for one or two recommendations of novels with emotionally unavailable main characters for one of my students - particularly if damaged by childhood. I'm thinking of Futh in Alison Moore's The Lighthouse primarily. Any others?
Paperback, 2017
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Fox 8: A Story
George Saunders
@jennashworth Fox 8 by George Saunders is interesting from pov of a fox; Cokcraco by Paul Williams includes a cockroach voice. Thomas Nagel's essay 'What is it like to be a bat?' is worth reading too: https://t.co/u4vl1pdXuM
Hardcover, 2018
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison
@farhanashaikh This is a really interesting book about natural shapes in fiction - wavelets, explosions, etc. - and questioning the hero arc. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative https://t.co/5eXNg95hvZ
Paperback, 2019
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Cokcraco
Paul A. Williams
@jennashworth Fox 8 by George Saunders is interesting from pov of a fox; Cokcraco by Paul Williams includes a cockroach voice. Thomas Nagel's essay 'What is it like to be a bat?' is worth reading too: https://t.co/u4vl1pdXuM
Paperback, 2013
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