A Room Of Your Own Max Moorhouse

This week sees a return to my themed libraries to look at 'Classics Re-Imagined'.
I'll be surveying the ways that authors are updating and bringing new life to the canon. I’ll be exploring the works of writers who have injected new life into the Greek Myths by putting the overlooked female characters at the centre, and taking a very quick run through literary history up to the present - and the future with the reinventions of dystopian fiction.
In the first segment, I’ll be exploring the theme and building the space with Ollie, who you might have heard in previous episodes. After the break, I’ll be alone, and surveying some of the major works in this area, and giving some reading recommendations.
If you enjoy this episode and would like to find out more about the work that I do with clients to create dedicated spaces for reading and relaxing in their homes, you can find me at www.aroyo.org
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I was very lucky to be joined this week by Christen Pears. Christen is known for having created a beautiful home that she has created in the West of Cornwall, and for sharing this space with guests at her B’n’B. More recently, she has announced that she will be running reading retreats - for guests to unwind in an inspiring atmosphere, to take time for themselves. 

In this episode we talk about how Christen has found creating her own home and sharing her lifestyle online, as well as what inspired her to make her space available for reading retreats, and the pleasure that comes with dedicating time to carving out that time for yourself.
If you want to find out more about these reading retreats, do follow Christen on Instagram at ‘christenpears’, or go to her website middlecolensofarm.co.uk.
Additionally if you enjoy this episode and would like to find out more about the work that I do with clients to create dedicated spaces for reading and relaxing in their homes, you can find me at www.aroyo.org. Or do follow me on instagram @aroyo.pod for regular posts on how to make the most of your space and to find out how to read the spaces around you for what they say about you and your life. 

I was very lucky to be joined this week by author Alice Maddicott - whose work explores and mulls over our search for the meaning of place, largely through travels and the places that she has fallen in love with - Tblisi, Belgrade, Istanbul - as well as her own home deep in the West Country.
We go on to have a really important discussion on the therapeutic role that the mind can play when creating an imaginary world as a refuge that can’t be touched by the outside. 
If you want to understand more about the process of building dream reading spaces in your home and how I can work with you, do see contact information below:
Website - www.aroyo.org
Instagram - @aroyo.pod
Email - aroyo.podcast@gmail.com

 In this week’s episode I’m joined by Dr Isabella Rosner - who holds the impressive title of curator at the Royal School of Needlework. Once I managed to drag her away from her favourite topics of 18th Century tea-caddies, we discussed her favourite reading spaces - and took a long tangent to imagine the dream bathroom.
Isabella is a proper expert as well as an extremely lively, approachable and funny person. It was such a pleasure to have her on.
If you want to understand more about the process of building dream reading spaces in your home and the process involved, do see contact info below:
Website - www.aroyo.org
Instagram - @aroyo.pod
Email - aroyo.podcast@gmail.com

This week, I’m joined again by author and columnist for Country Living Magazine Sally Coulthard.
Sally is the author of over 20 non-fiction titles on nature, craft, design and the history of the countryside. Her latest book - A History of the Countryside in 100 Objects - delves deep into 100 curious objects that act as keys to the past.In this episode, we will take all of those themes discussed in part 1, and build Sally’s dream family drawing room. A rag-tag collection of worn and comfortable furniture all pointing towards a large open fire, surrounded by walls of books, family photographs and fascinating objects dug up or recovered.
If you want to understand more about the process of building dream reading spaces in your home and the process involved, do visit my website:
A Room Of Your Own

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by author and columnist for Country Living Magazine Sally Coulthard.
Sally is the author of over 20 non-fiction titles on nature, craft, design and the history of the countryside. Her latest book - A History of the Countryside in 100 Objects - delves deep into 100 curious objects that act as keys to the past.In our conversation we delve into her memories of reading and writing, of her favourite objects collected from beaches and roadsides, and her experience of making a home on a farm in the landscape of North Yorkshire. We also delve into why Eileen O'Shaughnessy makes the perfect downstairs-loo companion.
Next week’s episode will cover Sally’s dream writer’s escape. If you want to understand more about the process of building dream reading spaces in your home and the process involved, do visit my website:
A Room Of Your Own