Mark Ravenhill 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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Invisible Ink
Patrick ModianoMark Ravenhill2023 is the year I’m reading the Nobel laureates! Today : Patrick Modiano ‘invisible Ink’ (2019). A hard boiled detective tale disintegrates, disperses and reforms as a meditation on memory and identity. Hypnotic, elegiac journey of psycho geography. It’s beautiful. Recommended
Paperback, 2021
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
Karl MarxMark RavenhillIn 2023 I’m reading Nobel laureate authors ! Today Jelinek’s ‘rein GOLD’- an exhilarating flood of language which shares with Karl Marx a Gothic joy in the energy and destructive power of capital. Not a novel, not a play, not an essay. It’s own beast. https://t.co/1d4ZJ15XgJ
Paperback, 1992
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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Keith JohnstoneMark RavenhillIn 1994 I took an introduction to playwriting course by sitting at my kitchen table for an hour a day and using Keith Johnstone’s Impro book to give myself playwriting exercises. Two years later I was a produced playwright. Keith died on Saturday aged 90. He changed my life.
Paperback, 1987
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Jumpers
Tom StoppardMark RavenhillFor some reason remembered this today and chuckled. From 1970s sitcom George and Mildred : Snobby neighbour: ‘we’re going into town to see Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers. Mildred: ‘that’s nice dear. Does he have a lot of them ? Golden rule of comedy : naivety always beats vanity
Paperback, 1994
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You Can Heal Your Life
Louise HayMark RavenhillWhen I started working in theatre I realised I’d need to manage rejection and insecurity. Setting my cynicism aside, I found Louise L Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life self help book very useful. Any self help work helped you my friends ?
Paperback, 1984
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Cancer Ward
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMark RavenhillFor World Book Day I’m spending the day as Kostlogov from Solzhenitsyn’s seminal 1964 novel ‘Cancer Ward’. So far no one seems to have noticed - probably all Stalinists. https://t.co/uAnN4blCHq
Paperback, 2015
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Life!
Louise L. HayMark RavenhillWhen I started working in theatre I realised I’d need to manage rejection and insecurity. Setting my cynicism aside, I found Louise L Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life self help book very useful. Any self help work helped you my friends ?
Paperback, 1996
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
Peter HandkeMark RavenhillThis evening I read Peter Handke A Sorrow Beyond Dreams ( wunschloses ungluck). For some he’s I know persona non grata but it’s an extraordinary memoir of his mother, a century, the unreliability of language. Read if you get a chance -only 70 pages but so rich.
Paperback, 2012
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav GhoshMark RavenhillStayed up into the small hours reading Amitav Gosh ‘The Great Derangement’, thrilled,educated, unsettled. I urge you to find a copy and read. Gosh asks how we make art and tell stories in a climate crisis and views these from outside the dominant West. Readable,urgent,eye opener
Paperback, 2017
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Woodcutters
Thomas BernhardMark RavenhillGreat novels I’ve read about the theatre : Bulgakov ‘Black Snow’ Michael Blakemore ‘Next Season’ Thomas Bernhard ‘Woodcutters’ Klaus Mann ‘Mephisto’ Goethe ‘Wilhelm Meister’ Others you’ve read ?
Paperback, 2010
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