Guilty One

  Simone de Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity

  The Poems of Norman McCaig

  Toni Morrison – Beloved

  Richard Holloway – Godless Morality

  Margaret Atwood – Cat’s Eye

  Michael Ondaatje – In the Skin of a Lion

  Joyce Carol Oates – We Were the Mulvaneys

  Germaine Greer – The Boy

  Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  Robert M Prisig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  John Irving – The World According to Garp

  Olive Schreiner – The Story of an African Farm

  THE TOP-TEN THINGS LISA BALLANTYNE HAS LEARNED ABOUT WRITING A NOVEL:

  1) Write if you feel driven to, then you will always find it satisfying.

  2) Once it’s written, it exists – don’t think too much, write it down. It is easier to revise a finished piece of work.

  3) A writer writes.

  4) Spend time perfecting your work, but show your work to others.

  5) Read, read, read.

  6) Research is for background and for confidence. You don’t have to squeeze it all in.

  7) Live life, or you won’t have anything to write about.

  8) Write about what interests you, then it is more likely others will be interested.

  9) Exercise before sitting down to write.

  10) Delete as little as possible and keep all your drafts.