S4 Ep2 AK Blakemore author of The Manningtree Witches & The Glutton

AK Blakemore, poet and author of the Costa Shortlisted, Demond Elliot prize winning, THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES, vital historical fiction about the East Anglian witch trials and the forthcoming THE GLUTTON, both published by Granta Books.
Amy chats about:

• her early introduction to writing through her poetry
• the freedom that writing offers
• how a job other than writing can be a necessity for more than financial reasons
• about writing the humanity in the monsterous

Guest: AK Blakemore Twitter: @akblakemore IG: @barbiedreamhearse Book: The Manningtree Witches
Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer , This Family
Amy’s reading recommendations:Books for fans of The Manningtree Witches: Margery Kempe by Robert Glück, McGlue by Ottessa MoshfeghBooks Amy has always loved: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K Le Guin, Lolita by Vladimir NabokovBooks coming soon or recently released that Amy recommends: Keeping House by Tice Cin, Common Decency by Susannah Dickey, Child Of God by Cormac McCarthyOther books that we chatted about in this episode: Burntcoat by Sarah Hall, My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Perfume by Patrick Suskind

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