3. Sarra Manning

48 min • 19 november 2018

It's Muswell Hill for Ep 3, not far from the desks of Alan Bennett, Zadie Smith, and today’s guest Sarra Manning. Sarra is a bestselling, prolific novelist, literary editor of Red, alumni of several top teen mags and one of the most prolific readers around. She told us she got rid of 800 books before our visit, just so we could move freely around her flat. But there were tons of treasure left including a precious collection of rare Noel Streatfeilds, a copy of proto bonkbuster Lace, a gorgeous collection of vintage Chalet Schools with an origin story that will make you weep, and tales about books she’s bought, borrowed and stolen.

BOOKS

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Sarra Manning - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat

Charles Creed - Maid to Measure

Ginette Spanier - It Isn't All Mink

Anne Scott-James - In The Mink

Edna Woolman Chase - Always in Vogue

Ernestine Carter - With Tongue in Chic

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar