Books that shaped the author
The books that changed how a sentence, character or world could be made.
Library of Influences
A reading life,
kept in view.
Not reviews or ratings. This is a shelf of books and writers that have shaped the work, opened a subject, or simply deserve to be passed on to another reader.
Books leave their marks in the margins of everything written after them.Browse the shelves
Five ways into the reading.
Writers returned to
Favourite voices: writers worth rereading for their rhythm, clarity, courage or range.
Currently reading
What is open on the desk now, with a brief note on what keeps the pages turning.
Behind the novels
Books that opened a subject, place or structure while a novel was taking shape.
Recommended reading
Books passed from one reader to another, with a plain reason to pick each one up.
Selections from the library
Books worth
keeping near.
The first selections will appear here as the reading list grows.
For readers
Follow a book back to the book that led to it.Continue to the Author’s Journal ↗