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The books and authors Elly has been reading in lockdown:

P.G. Wodehouse

Georgette Heyer

Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm

J.R.R. Tolkein – Lord of the Rings

Bill Bryson – Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet

 

 

On Lord of the Rings: “I wish I wasn’t living in these times… but so does everyone else and we must go forward.”

 

 

The books and authors Elly enjoyed as a child:

Neville Streatfeild – Ballet Shoes & The Painted Garden

Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland

Paul Jennings

Richard Adams – Watership Down

 

 

On Alice in Wonderland: “It taught me that [reading] was a legitimate way of spending the day.”

 

 

The books Elly enjoyed as a teenager:

Mazo de la Roche – Whiteoaks of Jalna series

John Galsworthy – Forsyte saga

Elizabeth Jane Howard – Cazalet chronicles

 

 

A book that made Elly cry:

Sheila Burnford – The Incredible Journey

Richard Adams – Watership Down

 

 

Elly’s favourite historical reads:

Anything by Georgette Heyer – particularly An Infamous Army

C.J. Sansom – The Shardlake series

 

 

On C.J. Sansom – “he spent two weeks researching sheep, and there are two lines on sheep in the book… but you believe those two lines!”

 

The classic crime book Elly wishes she’d written:

Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone

 

 

The books and authors Elly has been gifted and loved:

Ann Cleeves

Ian Rankin

William Shaw

Kate Atkinson – The Jackson Brodie series

Lesley Thompson – The Detectives Daughter

 

 

Elly’s favourite audiobooks:

Richmal Crompton – Just William, read by Martin Jarvis

J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter series, read by Stephen Fry

 

 

Elly’s favourite villains:

Satan from Paradise Lost (Milton)

Count Fosco from The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)

 

 

On the Novels That Shaped the World Sherlock Holmes theme:

Nancy Springer – Enola Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle – Hound of the Baskervilles

 

 

Elly Griffiths’ favourite book:

Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White

 

 

Extra books and authors that Elly mentioned:

Agatha Christie

Shakespeare

Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet & This Must Be the Place

Ngaio Marsh

Nancy Spain – Cinderella Goes to the Morgue, Poison for Teacher, Death Goes on Skis

Wilkie Collins – No Name

Bram Stoker – Dracula

Ronald Knox’ Rules of Crime Writing – Ronald Knox