Writing On Literature

These aren't all the books I read, but they're the ones I found most helpful or illuminating. Ames, Jonathan, Sexual Metamorphosis, Vintage, New York 2005 Ames, Jonathan, What’s Not to Love? Scribner, London, 2000 Ashley, April, The First Lady, John Blake, London, 2006 Angier, Natalie, Woman: An Intimate Geography, Anchor, New York, 2000 Bibby, Bob, Special Offa, Eye Books, London, 2004 Bloom, Amy, Normal, Bloomsbury, London, 2003 Boyd, Helen, My Husband Betty, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York 2003 Bornstein, Kate, Gender Outlaw, Routledge, London, 1994 Cossey, Caroline, My Story, Faber and Faber, London, 1991 Califia, Pat, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism, Cleis Press, San Francisco, 1997 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, The Worst Journey in the World, Pimlico, London 2003 (Constable 1922)

Richard Beard’s six novels include Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones and Damascus, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In the UK he has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His latest novel Acts of the Assassins was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and he is the author of four books of narrative non-fiction. His 2017 memoir The Day That Went Missing won the 2018 PEN/Ackerley Award for literary autobiography, and was shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In the USA the book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Formerly Director