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On the show today, we speak to co-director of Brighton Book Festival Althea Woolf, Sheika Helawy, Taha Kehar, Helen Lederer and Roy McFarlane.

You can buy tickets from brightonbookfestival.co.uk and follow us on Instagram to find out more about the events spoken about in today’s show over at @btnbookclub.

It's the Reverbathon and we're back with a special show recorded in the Radio Reverb studio with a host of fab live guests and sponsors. Please consider making a donation to keep us ad-free and creating the show. You can do so here.

More about Jenni and her work at Brighton Fringe
Book tickets to Mrisi's show
More about Hove Creative Writing Group
More about The Real Writers Circle
Book tickets to the Real Writers Circle Festival Event

We're joined by three fantastic Brighton authors: Graham Bartlett, Katy Massey and Tanya Byrne

This month we speak to Brighton based debut novelists, Ania Card and Sarah Butler, both of whom have books out with indie presses.

Ania talks about writing not in her native tongue, about exploring queer identity and how the writing community has helped her reach success.

Sarah talks about the move from short fiction to a novel and how the Sussex landscape inspires her writing.

We also speak to Rhiannon Lingwood from Brighton Fringe who is giving us a preview of book, literature and spoken word events on at this year’s iconic Fringe.

Our Brighton Bestseller episode features the wonderful Elly Griffiths, Dorothy Koomson and Jack Jordan. 

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This month’s show is hosted Victoria Robson and Cindy Etherton, co-founders of Real
Writers Circle, a Brighton-based a community of writers who meet monthly to share work, support, and friendship. Victoria and Cindy talk to Circle members Ciar Byrne, Jackie Mendoza and Kate Marsh about their favourite books and their influence on their writing. And they catch up with RWC member Samuel Burr and his editor Charlotte Mursell at Orion Publishing on Sam’s debut novel The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers.

Favourite Books Mentioned in the Show:
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
La Terre by Emil Zola
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr (available in May)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

X/Twitter
Real Writers Circle: @Real_Writers_
Cindy Etherton: @CindyEtherton4
Victoria Robson: @victoriarobson
Ciar Byrne: @ciarbyrne
Jackie Mendoza: @writerandhounds
Kate Marsh: @k8marsh
Samuel Burr: @samuelburr
Charlotte Mursell: @Charlo_Murs

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@writerandhounds
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