Tuesday, May 19, 2009


Mosse's Waterstone's picks
18.05.09 Graeme Neill writing in The Bookseller

Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath and Wild Swans are among the titles selected by Labyrinth author Kate Mosse as part of Waterstone's Writers Table campaign. Forty titles, which Mosse chose for influencing and inspiring her writing, went into selected Waterstone's stores on Saturday (16th May).

Mosse's choices span classics (Emily Brontë, Guy de Maupassant, Joseph Conrad), biography (Claire Tomalin, Arthur Koestler, Jung Chang), crime (Ian Rankin, Agatha Christie) and history (Karen Armstrong, Zoé Oldenbourg) to adventure (Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard), modern fiction (Margaret Atwood, Louis de Bernières, Marilyn French, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) and poetry(T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson). Each book features handwritten notes from Mosse explaining her choices.

Toby Bourne, head of fiction at Waterstone's, said: "This is a wonderfully thought-provoking and far-reaching list. With titles from all over the world, there is something here for everyone. Kate’s choice touches on over two thousand years of human history. It is full of surprises, but remains throughout a selection of moving and entertaining stories of the human condition."
Mosse said: "It was a great pleasure – and a privilege – to be asked to take part. It was much harder than I expected, getting my list down to only forty titles, but at the same time, a great way to shout about my genuinely favourite books and to reflect on what had influenced me over the years, both as a reader and as a writer."

For the full list of titles in Kate Mosse’s Writer’s Table link here.
Footnote:
Nice to see one of the authors featured at the just concluded Auckland Writers & Readers Festival in the list.

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