The Books That Made Me

In this episode, author Sarah Marie Griffin talks about her teenage pilgrimages to Chapters Bookstore, love of video games and fierce reciting of Wendy Cope poetry at parties.  Books mentioned in the episode include:It's a Busy, Busy World - Richard Scarry Malory Towers/St Clare's/The Secret Seven - Enid Blyton The Magician's Nephew/The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty - Ben Elton, John Lloyd, Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson Desperate Housewives:Behind Closed Doors Monty Python's Flying Circus - Complete Scripts A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave EggersPerks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Promising Young Women - Caroline O'Donoghue This Is How You Lose Her - Junot DiazUlysses - James Joyce The Twilight Saga - Stephanie Myer Tangleweed & Brine - Deirdre Sullivan Only Ever Yours/Asking For It/Almost Love - Louise O'Neill Last Ones Left Alive - Sarah Davis Goff The Secret History - Donna Tartt Oh My God What A Complete Aisling - Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen The Importance of Being Aisling - Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen Watermelon/Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes Perfectly Preventable Deaths - Deirdre Sullivan All The Bad Apples - Moira Fowley Doyle Bluets - Maggie Nelson If Not, Winter:Fragments of Sappho - Anne CarsonWomen - Charles Bukowski Salt - Nayyirah Waheed A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume Wine For A Shotgun - Marty McConnell This One Summer - Mariko Tamaki The Orange - Wendy Cope The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer -Jennifer Lynch On This The 100th Anniversary Of The Sinking Of The Titanic, We Reconsider The Buoyancy Of The Human Heart - Laura Lamb Brown Lavoie The Dissection Room - Doireann Ní Ghríofa Follow This Thread: A Maze Book To Get Lost In - Henry Eliot Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin BarryCity of Bohane - Kevin Barry

Welcome to the Books That Made Me Podcast! In the inaugural episode, we chat to Lisa Coen & Sarah Davis Goff from Tramp Press about the most important and loved books in their lives. Highlights include a shared love of Nigel Slater, Anne Enright, the importance of horror in adolescence and the brilliance of Irish theatre. Books mentioned in this episode are:Spot/Bran books - Eric HillStone soup - folklore, unknown Peter Rabbit series - Beatrix PotterMalory Towers - Enid BlytonThe Secret Seven - Enid Blyton Assorted works - Edgar Allen Poe It - Stephen King Sula - Toni Morrison Persuasion - Jane Austen Pet Sematary - Stephen KingMaking Babies - Anne Enright The Green Road - Anne EnrightThe Lives of Eliza Lynch - Anne Enright Firestarter - Stephen King War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Outsider - Stephen King Philadelphia, Here I Come - Brian Friel A Whistle In The Dark - Tom MurphyThe Gigli Concert - Tom Murphy The Ancillary Trilogy - Ann LeckieSolar Bones - Mike McCormack Minor Monuments - Ian MaleneyThe Stand - Stephen King Running Like A Girl - Alexandra HeminsleyIn White Ink - Elskie RahillAn Unravelling - Elskie Rahill The Firestarters - Jan CarsonShow Them A Good Time - Nicole Flattery