This week we are Shelf Isolating with the journalist, columnist and author Gavanndra Hodge! Gavanndra has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years at publications such as Tatler, Sunday Times, Independent and ES Magazine. Her memoir, The Consequences of Love, has received widespread critical acclaim. We talked to her about rereading, food in books, Lace and being led astray by the Chalet School books.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love
Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory
Sybille Bedford - Jigsaw
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer - Chalet School
JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Virgil - Aenid
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles
Rose Macaulay - Towers of Trebizond
Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach
Anbara Salam - Belladonna
Barbara Trapido - Frankie and Stankie
Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack
Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
Ali Smith - How To Be Both
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Last Act of Love
Justine Picardie - If the Spirit Moves You
JK Rowling - Harry Potter
Sophie Heawood - Hungover Games
Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed
Daniel Kehlmann - Tyll
Shirley Conran - Lace
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