Artist and writer and Raoul Martinez joins Robin and Josie to kick of Season 5 of Book Shambles. They discuss Creating Freedom, have a debate about free will and chat books
Bookshambles
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“So there I lie on the plateau, under me the central core of fire from which was thrust this grumbling grinding mass of plutonic rock”
“It is flourishes like these, and countless others, that deliver in Lolito a credible, often exquisite work sure to court at least a little controversy in its depiction of ageless (im)maturity. And though there may be some hot debate on the topic at the moment, Lolito won’t ever become a tiny corner forgotten”
Declan Tan
The Huffington Post
‘Nan Shepherd’s prose is as bracing as water from a mountain stream’
Nicholas Lezard
The Guardian
Nan Shepherd: How one woman saw the Cairngorms in a different light
Steven Brocklehurst
The BBC
“Many of the lists offer advice that you will take to your grave. Some offer a snapshot of history previously unknown. Others are simply a joy to read. Each and every one, however, is certainly a list of note”
Lists of Note is a constantly surprising A-Z of what makes us human.
“The text runs 65 pages, short ones, and the prose seems pressed out drop by drop. Dillard later said the book took 14 months to write, full-time, which works out to something like 25 words a day. The sentences are bitten rock, bitter water, biting wind…”
William Deresiewicz
The Atlantic
Jules Evans, author of The Art of Losing Control, gives an introduction on why getting out of our heads is good for us.
Jules Evans
philosophyforlife.org
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Lily Jones
Lily Vanili
Introducing the fabulous Lily Jones - baker to the stars and author of Canongate’s first cookbook.