For the twenty-fifth episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by London-based author and writer, Robyn Donaldson. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:

 

The Odyssey by Homer

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

 

Other books we spoke about included The Bricks that Built the Houses, All That Man is and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

 

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