This week we're visiting Erin Kelly, the critically acclaimed author adored by hundreds of thousands of readers – she’s been topping bestseller lists since the publication of her debut, The Poison Tree. Her latest novel, Stone Mothers, is an addictive story about love, lies and secrets. Erin is a reading addict and a true scholar of fiction. We talked about writing ambitions, failures that lead to success and being mentored by Ruth Rendell from beyond the grave.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Elaine Dundy - The Injured Party

Erin Kelly - The Poison Tree

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Kerry Hudson - Thirst

Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me

Ruth Rendell - A Fatal Inversion

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jacqueline Wilson - Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson - The Suitcase Kid

Paula Danziger - Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Lois Duncan - Stranger With My Face

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Stephen King - Carrie

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Virginia Andrews - Garden of Shadows

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Norton Anthology of English Literature

Shelley Harris - Vigilante

Carol Ann Duffy - Collected Poems

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Erin Kelly - The Burning Air

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

SJ Watson - Before I Go To Sleep

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

Andrea Newman - Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Andrea Newman - A Sense of Guilt

Andrea Newman -Three Into Two Won’t Go

Andrea Newman - A Share of the World

Daisy Johnson - Fen

Eley Williams - Attrib

Helen Simpson - Cockfosters

Anna Hope - Expectation

Anna Hope - The Ballroom

Sally Rooney - Normal People

JT Leroy - Sarah

JT Leroy - Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

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