Inspirations
Current Recommendations
Reading: The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff
Listening to: La Vita Nuova by Maria McKee
Watching: Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
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Music
Adele, Tori Amos, Chet Baker, Josephine Baker, Shirley Bassey, The Beatles, Matraca Berg, Benjamin Britten, Maria Callas, Brandi Carlile, The Carter Family, Carlene Carter, Neko Case, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Caroline Herring, Whitney Houston, Mahalia Jackson, The Judds, Lady Gaga, k.d. lang, John Lennon, Julie London, Patty Loveless, Shelby Lynne, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Kate & Anne McGarrigle, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Martin Moore, Allison Moorer, Jessye Norman, Sinead O’Connor, Oasis, Yoko Ono, Joan Osborne, Dolly Parton, Gretchen Peters, Edith Piaf, Linda Ronstadt, Raphael Saadiq, Scissor Sisters, Nina Simone, Nancy Sinatra, Ben Sollee, Regina Spektor, Dusty Springfield, Sufjan Stevens, Barbra Streisand, Thomas Tallis, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright
Music
Adele, Tori Amos, Chet Baker, Josephine Baker, Shirley Bassey, The Beatles, Matraca Berg, Benjamin Britten, Maria Callas, Brandi Carlile, The Carter Family, Carlene Carter, Neko Case, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Caroline Herring, Whitney Houston, Mahalia Jackson, The Judds, Lady Gaga, k.d. lang, John Lennon, Julie London, Patty Loveless, Shelby Lynne, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Kate & Anne McGarrigle, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Martin Moore, Allison Moorer, Jessye Norman, Sinead O’Connor, Oasis, Yoko Ono, Joan Osborne, Dolly Parton, Gretchen Peters, Edith Piaf, Linda Ronstadt, Raphael Saadiq, Scissor Sisters, Nina Simone, Nancy Sinatra, Ben Sollee, Regina Spektor, Dusty Springfield, Sufjan Stevens, Barbra Streisand, Thomas Tallis, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright
Books
84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff), About a Boy (Nick Hornby), All the Brave Promises (Mary Lee Settle), Angels in America (Tony Kushner), Anne of the Thousand Days (Maxwell Anderson), Beloved (Toni Morrison), The Book of Common Prayer, Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel), Bucolics (Maurice Manning), Cecil Beaton's Diaries, Cider with Rosie (Laurie Lee), The Color Purple (Alice Walker), Coventry (Helen Humphreys), The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), Dreamwork (Mary Oliver), The Evening Chorus (Helen Humphreys), Fair and Tender Ladies (Lee Smith), Firebird (Mark Doty), The Go-Between (L.P. Hartley), A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson), H is for Hawk (Helen Macdonald), Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd), Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy), Just Kids (Patti Smith), The Lady in the Tower (Alison Weir), The Least Cricket of Evening (Robert Vivian), Life After Life (Kate Atkinson), The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (Eric Ives), Master Class (Terrence McNally), Maurice (E.M. Forster), A Month in the Country (J.L. Carr), Mother of Sorrows (Richard McCann), Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), My Antonia (Willa Cather), My Father and Myself (J.R. Ackerley), The Night Watch (Sarah Waters), Notes of a Native Son (James Baldwin), Orlando (Virginia Woolf), The Paper Garden (Molly Peacock), Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen), Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion), Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov), The Stranger's Child (Alan Hollinghurst), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy), Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain), Tin Man (Sarah Winman), The Unquiet Earth (Denise Giardina), White Girls (Hilton Als),Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? (Mark Zwonitzer), The Women (Hilton Als),The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy), A Writer's Diary (Virginia Woolf), You Have Given Me A Country (Neela Vaswani)
84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff), About a Boy (Nick Hornby), All the Brave Promises (Mary Lee Settle), Angels in America (Tony Kushner), Anne of the Thousand Days (Maxwell Anderson), Beloved (Toni Morrison), The Book of Common Prayer, Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel), Bucolics (Maurice Manning), Cecil Beaton's Diaries, Cider with Rosie (Laurie Lee), The Color Purple (Alice Walker), Coventry (Helen Humphreys), The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), Dreamwork (Mary Oliver), The Evening Chorus (Helen Humphreys), Fair and Tender Ladies (Lee Smith), Firebird (Mark Doty), The Go-Between (L.P. Hartley), A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson), H is for Hawk (Helen Macdonald), Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd), Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy), Just Kids (Patti Smith), The Lady in the Tower (Alison Weir), The Least Cricket of Evening (Robert Vivian), Life After Life (Kate Atkinson), The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (Eric Ives), Master Class (Terrence McNally), Maurice (E.M. Forster), A Month in the Country (J.L. Carr), Mother of Sorrows (Richard McCann), Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), My Antonia (Willa Cather), My Father and Myself (J.R. Ackerley), The Night Watch (Sarah Waters), Notes of a Native Son (James Baldwin), Orlando (Virginia Woolf), The Paper Garden (Molly Peacock), Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen), Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion), Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov), The Stranger's Child (Alan Hollinghurst), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy), Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain), Tin Man (Sarah Winman), The Unquiet Earth (Denise Giardina), White Girls (Hilton Als),Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? (Mark Zwonitzer), The Women (Hilton Als),The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy), A Writer's Diary (Virginia Woolf), You Have Given Me A Country (Neela Vaswani)
Movies
84 Charing Cross Road, About a Boy, All About My Mother, Amarcord, Angels in America, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Apostle, Beautiful Thing, Billy Elliot, Black Narcissus, Brief Encounter, Bright Star, A Canterbury Tale, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Color of Paradise, The Color Purple; Distant Voices, Still Lives; Doctor Zhivago, The Dollmaker, East/West, An Education, Elizabeth, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Funny Girl, The Go-Between; Goodbye, Lenin!; Grey Gardens (1976), Harlan County USA, Harold & Maude, Hope & Glory, How Green Was My Valley, I Capture the Castle, I Confess!, In the Bedroom, Jackie, Jude, Julia, The Last Station, The Long Day Closes; Love, Cecil; A Matter of Life and Death, Maurice, A Month in the Country, My Beautiful Laundrette, The New World, Pain & Glory, A Place in the Sun, Orlando, Pride, The Queen, The Reader, Rebecca, The Red Shoes, The Remains of the Day, Roman Holiday, A Room with a View, Ruby in Paradise, Saved!, Sense & Sensibility (1995), Shadowlands, The Shop on Main Street, Strangers on a Train, Sunset Song; Testament of Youth, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?; The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Trip to Bountiful, V for Vendetta, Volver, Waterloo Bridge, Weekend, The White Ribbon, Wild River, Wilde, Y Tu Mama Tambien
84 Charing Cross Road, About a Boy, All About My Mother, Amarcord, Angels in America, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Apostle, Beautiful Thing, Billy Elliot, Black Narcissus, Brief Encounter, Bright Star, A Canterbury Tale, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Color of Paradise, The Color Purple; Distant Voices, Still Lives; Doctor Zhivago, The Dollmaker, East/West, An Education, Elizabeth, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Funny Girl, The Go-Between; Goodbye, Lenin!; Grey Gardens (1976), Harlan County USA, Harold & Maude, Hope & Glory, How Green Was My Valley, I Capture the Castle, I Confess!, In the Bedroom, Jackie, Jude, Julia, The Last Station, The Long Day Closes; Love, Cecil; A Matter of Life and Death, Maurice, A Month in the Country, My Beautiful Laundrette, The New World, Pain & Glory, A Place in the Sun, Orlando, Pride, The Queen, The Reader, Rebecca, The Red Shoes, The Remains of the Day, Roman Holiday, A Room with a View, Ruby in Paradise, Saved!, Sense & Sensibility (1995), Shadowlands, The Shop on Main Street, Strangers on a Train, Sunset Song; Testament of Youth, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?; The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Trip to Bountiful, V for Vendetta, Volver, Waterloo Bridge, Weekend, The White Ribbon, Wild River, Wilde, Y Tu Mama Tambien