A very happy new year to all! We open 2017 by returning back to 2016. This Writing Life's interview with Matt Haig was a game of two halves. For the first 45 minutes, we discussed Christmas, inspired by his excellent festive children's story, A Boy Called Christmas. In the second half, we turned our attention to depression inspired by Matt's excellent memoir about depression, anxiety and his own experience of mental illness, Reasons to Stay Alive. In this short taster, Matt recalls how reading helped him in the early days of recovery: what he read and what he found he could not read.
Part 3 and 4 will follow.
These Our Monsters LIVE: Sarah Moss reads from ’Breakynecky’
Graeme Macrae Burnet reads from ’The Dark Thread’ (These Our Monsters)
Fiona Mozley reads from ’The Loathly Lady’ (These Our Monsters)
Edward Carey reads from ’These Our Monsters’
Simon Barnes Reading: on closely-observed gannets
A Conversation with Simon Barnes - Part 2
A Conversation with Simon Barnes - Part 1
Simon Barnes reads from The Meaning of Birds
Episode 142 - Amanda Coe: Part 1
Episode 141 - Leila Slimani - Lullaby: Part 4
Episode 140 - Leila Slimani - Lullaby: Part 3
Episode 139 - Leila Slimani - Lullaby: Part 2
Episode 138 - Leila Slimani - Lullaby: Part 1
Episode 137 - Lynn Shepherd: Part 4
Episode 136 - Lynn Shepherd's Advice to Budding Writers
Episode 135 - Lynn Shepherd: Part 3
Episode 134 - Lynn Shepherd: Part 2
Episode 133 - Lynn Shepherd: Part 1
Episode 132 - Neel Mukherjee: Part 3
Episode 131 - Neel Mukherjee: Part 2
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