Papertrail Podcast

Joanna Walsh is a writer of fiction and non, fiction. Her latest book,'Worlds From The Words End', is available now from And Other Stories. She has been published in a number of magazines, including Granta Magazine, Gorse Journal, and the Dublin Review. She is also a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and Catapult.co.

You can read her experimental digital novella 'Seed' for free here.

JOANNA'S BOOK CHOICES:

• Zoo: Or Letters Not About Love by Viktor Shklovsky
• Gaudy Bauble by Isabel Waidner
• Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer

Joanna tweets @badaude. You can find out all about her on her website.She also runs the twitter account @read_women

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Dan is a writer and journalist. His first novel 'The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas' is currently available for pre-order from the wonderful Dead Ink Books. You can pre-order your copy of Ezra Maas, as well as four other excellent new titles, by visiting Dead Ink's Site.

DAN'S BOOK CHOICES:

1. The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm
2. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
3. House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

Dan tweets @DanJamesWriter. You can find out all about him on his website.

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Cassandra is a writer of fantastic stories that blend cultures, mythologies, and the modern world together in wonderful ways. The sequel to her fantastic novella 'Hammers on Bone' will be out in August 2017, and she is also one of the writers for the eagerly anticipated '2084' from Unsung Stories.

CASSANDRA'S BOOK CHOICES:

• Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz
• Brimstone by Cherie Priest
• The Girl From The Well by Rin Chupeco

Cassandra tweets @CassKhaw. You can find out all about her work, both existing and upcoming, on her website.

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This month I'm joined by novelist Helen McClory. Helen's novel, Flesh of the Peach, is available now from Freight Books. She is also the author of On The Edges of Vision, a collection of short stories.

HELEN'S BOOK CHOICES:

1. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
2. The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
3. Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird

Helen tweets @HelenMcClory and you can find out more about her on her website. She also curates a wonderful TinyLetterwith essays on under-hyped books.

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Sarah is an Online Editor at The Bookseller, and writes about books for Stylist Magazine. She is also the co-founder of BAME in publishing, a network for people who are from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and who work in the UK publishing industry, to come together and connect.

SARAH'S BOOK CHOICES:

• The Peacock Garden by Anita Desai
• Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
• The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla

Pippa tweets @sarahshaffi and you can find out more about her on her website.

Pippa is a Novelist and Short Story writer with a PhD in Astronomy. She was awarded a New Writers Award in 2012 by the Scottish Book Trust and her novel 'The Falling Sky' was runner-up in the Dundee International Book Prize. Her latest collection, 'The Need For Better Regulation Of Outer Space', is clever and entertaining, exploring untold stories about science and scientists.

PIPPA'S BOOK CHOICES:

• The Owl Service by Alan Garner
• Burn Your Boats by Angela Carter
• Kepler by John Banville

Pippa tweets @goldipipschmidt and you can find out more about her and her upcoming projects on her website.

Martine is a novelist and the Programme Leader of the MA in Creative Writing & Publishing at the University of Sussex. Her previous novels are 'After Pheonix' and 'I Have Waited and You Have Come'. Her latest novel, Narcissism for Beginners was released earlier this month from Unbound.

MARTINE'S BOOK CHOICES:

• The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
• Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton
• A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd Haycock

Martine Tweets @MartineM_Writer and you can find out more about her, her writing, and upcoming events on her website.

Paul is the Editor of 'Elsewhere', a journal of place.His latest book, 'Ghosts on the Shore: Travels along Germany's Baltic Coast' will be published in June by Influx Press. You can find much of his writing about place on the website 'Caught by the River'.

Paul's Book Choices:

• Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris (Faber Books)
• Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović(Istros Books)
• What I Saw by Joseph Roth (W. W. Norton & Company)

Paul Tweets @underagreysky and @seeyouelsewhere

Irenosen is the author of two books. Her novel 'Butterfly Fish' won a 2016 Betty Trask Award, and her short story collection 'Speak Gigantular' is Longlisted for the inaugural Jhalak prize. Both books are published by Jacaranda Books.

IRENOSEN'S BOOK CHOICES:

Geek Love - Katherine Dunn (Abacus)
Glyph - Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen - Marilyn Chin (Penguin)

She tweets @IrenosekOkojie and you can visit her website for more information.

SHOW NOTES:

Mentioned: Ishmael Reed

What Irenosen's reading at the moment: Kevin Barry's Beatlebone

Kerry is the Author of two books: 'Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma' won the Scottish First Book Award. And her second, 'THIRST', won the Prix Femina Étranger, France's most prestigious award for foreign fiction. She is also the founder of The WoMentoring Project.

Kerry's Book Choices:

Jazz - Toni Morrison (Vintage Books)
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler (Vintage Books)
'Tis - Frank McCourt (Harper Perennial)

She tweets @KerrysWindow and you can visit her website for more information

Show Notes:

2:20 The Accidental Tourist discussion begins.

17:25 Jazz discussion begins.

26:40 'Tis discussion begins.

40:20 Kerry speaks about her involvement with the WoMentoring Project.