National treasure alert! We are so, so honoured to bring you this conversation with legendary author, scriptwriter, multi-award winner and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman OBE. Malorie is one of Britain's best and most beloved children's authors who has written over 70 books including the acclaimed Noughts & Crosses series, which was recently turned into a hit TV series. Malorie has just released her autobiography, Just Sayin', which is wise, wonderful, distressing, hilarious and completely engrossing. Her enthusiasm for books and reading shines through this interview, as she discusses her formative years at the library, beating writers block, her love of poetry and the genius of short stories. Prepare to be inspired. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'
Alan Moore - V for Vendetta
Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare - Othello
Alice Walker - The Colour Purple
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Ovid - Metamorphosis
Felix Guirand (Ed) - New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology
John Wyndham - Chocky
Daphne Du Maurier - The Blue Lenses
Stephen King - Needful Things
Stephen King - Four Past midnight
Stephen King - Carrie
Stephen King - Misery
Charles Burns - Black Hole
Hans Christian Anderson - Little Mermaid
Holly Williams - What Time is Love
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass
Hilaire Belloc - Cautionary Verses
Gavin Ewart (Ed) - Penguin Book of Light Verse
Ogden Nash - Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery
JM Cohen (Ed) - A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse
Paula Burnett (Ed) - Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse
Maya Angelou - Complete Poetry
Wendy Cope - Two Cures for Love
Sarah Crossan - One
Dean Atta - Black Flamingo
Malorie Blackman - Cloud Busting
Malorie Blackman - Hackers
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Various - Marple
Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye
Isaac Asimov - I Robot
Gloria Naylor - Women of Brewster Place
Homer - The Odyssey
Isaac Asimov - Tales of Black Widowers
Daisy Buchanan - Burn After Reading
Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
RJ Palacio - Wonder
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Anne Frank - Diary
Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy
Art Spiegelman - Maus
Louis Sachar - Holes
Susan Varley - Badger's Parting Gifts
Garth Ennis - The Boys
Garth Ennis - Preacher
Hayley Campbell - All the Living and the Dead
Rosa Parks - My Story
Paterson Joseph - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
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