Harriett Gilbert Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Harriett Gilbert

@kate_mckean Publishing: How the Words Get Good by Rebecca Lee. Writing: On Writing by Stephen King; Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande….

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@MaryBenton111 @yetanotherevans Ah, yes, the multiply rejected: Stephen King’s Carrie; John Grisham’s A Time to Kill; Lord of the Flies; Catch-22…. I guess the crucial question is whether the rejectors offer useful advice (ie advice that shows they understand the author’s intentions).

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@russell_kane You could try Simenon's non-Maigret novels, especially The Train. Or, if you like dark humour, John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure. And someone else has suggested Ruth Rendell; I'd plump for her masterpiece, A Judgement in Stone.

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2 thought-provoking novels on #agoodread this pm: @Philippa_Perry @anilkseth and I discuss robots as friends + London as a city of strangers. Also, could we learn to die a bit better? @KazuoIshiguro1 @lindasgrant @Atul_Gawande 4.30pm @BBCRadio4 https://t.co/fVK5oHZHPn

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Magical Mexican food; making babies; marrying for money: all this and more when @rialina_ & @OteghaUwagba talk about books they love on #agoodread @BBCRadio4 4.30pm. (If you're too busy then, no problem: it'll be waiting for you to download.) https://t.co/8TgpEyQwDC

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Love @BernardineEvari 's Girl, Woman, Other? Got a question you're dying to ask her about it? Well, she's my next guest on the BBC's World Book Club @BBCWBC , so email your question(s) to worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk or tweet them to me by 18 June. https://t.co/TlcqYEgxmm

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Book people: do catch the wonderful NoViolet Bulawayo chatting with readers around the world about her novel We Need New Names. Midday tomorrow (Saturday) @BBCWBC @bbcworldservice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7h

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With more & more of us on the move — migrants of one sort or another, heading in this or that direction — how well can the world cope? Catch the inspiring Mohsin Hamid talking with readers about his superb novel Exit West here: https://t.co/ikzRhUQBn1

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@JanetEmson O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker; The Girls of Slender Means &/or The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark; Requiem, Antonio Tabucchi; The Spare Room, Helen Garner; Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin; Lady Into Fox, David Garnett; A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler....

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@suladoyle Either Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth of Angela Carter's splendidly controversial The Sadeian Woman.