Inspiration
Influences
Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, Gunta Stolz, Edward Tufte , Kevin Hogan, Dr. Peter Jensen, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel J. Levitin, Candace Pert, Romaine Brooks, Maurizio Lanzillotta, Chris Voss.
A Curated Reading List
I read voraciously and some of it makes its way into my work. Here is a list of some of my favourites, in no particular order.
'Seduction' and 'Too Close to the Falls', both by Catherine Gildiner, Raymond Carver, Denise Mina, Katrin Eismann, Deke McClelland, Daniel Levitin, Nick Bantock, Dale Cameron, Joseph Boyden, Caroline Slate, 'The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle' by Monique Proulx, Michael Charbon, 'The In-Between World of Vikram Lall' by M.G. Vassanji, What The Bleep, 'The Last Crossing' by Guy Vanderhaege, 'Prodigal Summer' by Barbara Kingsolver, 'Light Action in the Carribean' by Barry Lopez, 'The Gates of Ivory' by Margaret Drabble, Wayson Choy, 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd, 'The Bone People' by Keri Hulme, 'Quattrocento' by James McKean, Ian Rankin, Julia Child, 'The Simple Art of Perfect Baking' by Flo Braker, Jose LaTour, Leslie Forbes, Jasper Fforde, Barbara Nadel, Batya Gur, 'The Debt to Pleasure' by John Lanchester, 'Smilla's Sense of Snow' by Peter Hoeg, 'No Fixed Address' by Aritha Van Herk, Andrew Vachss, Nicholas Freeling, 'The Underpainter' by Jane Urquhart, Divisadero' by Michael Ondaatje, 'Bunker 13' by Aniruddha Bahal, Timothy Taylor, William Gibson, Charles Stross, Corey Doctorow, David Louise Edelman, Donna Leon, E. Annie Proulx, Mavis Gallant, 'The Night Ferry' by Michael Robotham, 'A Suitable Boy' and 'An Unequal Music' by Vikram Seth, 'Through Black Spruce' by Joseph Boyden, Bruce Chatwin, 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts , 'What the Dog Saw', by Malcolm Gladwell , 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', by Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows , 'Garlic and Sapphires', by Ruth Reichl, Margo Bates, The City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt, Stieg Larsson, 'The Painter of Battles' by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Henning Mankell, Brazzaville Beach, by William Boyd, 'Dead Set' by Kel Robertson, 'The Book of Salt' by Monique Truong, 'Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress' by Dai Sijie, My Stroke of Insight, by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, The Blood Spilt, by Asa Larsson, Gentle Care by Moyra Jones, Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier (author) and Barbara Harshav (translator), Click by Bill Tancer, 'The Man from Beijing', by Henning Mankell, Small g: A Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith, Linchpin by Seth Godin, Print magazine, Late Nights on Air, by Elizabeth Hay, Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong, The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis , Who Killed Mom?, by Steve Burgess, The Black Path, by Asa Larsson, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, In One Person, by John Irving, Inspector Montalbano series by Author Andrea Camilleri, The Riverbones, by Andrew Westoll, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Adam Blum, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, P.S. Don't Tell Your Mother by Margo Bates, John Sandford, Marcia Muller, David Rosenfelt, Donato Carrisi, Monica Ferris, Peter May, Jeffrey Cohen, Karin Slaughter, Kate Wilhelm, 'The Road to Keringet' by Maggie Ziegler, Thomas Perry, Joe Ide, Sheena Kamal, J.A. Jance, Anne Holt, Haruki Murakami, David Baldacci, Judith Flanders, Floating City by Kerri Sakamoto, Daniel Silva, Elizabeth Strout, S. J. Rozan, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Mo Hayder, Taylor Stevens, Chris Pavone, Roger Hobbs, Don Winslow, Louise Penny, Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, Keigo Higashino, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Gail Bowen, Deborah Crombie, Archer Mayor, Jane Harper, Rosalie Hamm, Linden MacIntyre, Matthew Dunn, Ian Hamilton, Nina George, The Art of the Pie by Kate MacDermott, Robert Gailbraith, Ben Aaronovitch, M.C. Beaton, Peter Temple, Chris Hammer, Peter Grainger, Garry Disher, Jacqueline Winspear, C.V. Gauthier, Rick Riordan, Mick Herron, Kwei Quartey, Jassy Mackenzie's Jade de Jong series - Stolen Lives, The Fallen, Pale Horses and Bad Seeds, The Song is You by Arthur Phillips, Stuart MacBride, the Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko, The Alice Network by Kate Quinn and Elly Griffiths.
'Seduction' and 'Too Close to the Falls', both by Catherine Gildiner, Raymond Carver, Denise Mina, Katrin Eismann, Deke McClelland, Daniel Levitin, Nick Bantock, Dale Cameron, Joseph Boyden, Caroline Slate, 'The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle' by Monique Proulx, Michael Charbon, 'The In-Between World of Vikram Lall' by M.G. Vassanji, What The Bleep, 'The Last Crossing' by Guy Vanderhaege, 'Prodigal Summer' by Barbara Kingsolver, 'Light Action in the Carribean' by Barry Lopez, 'The Gates of Ivory' by Margaret Drabble, Wayson Choy, 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd, 'The Bone People' by Keri Hulme, 'Quattrocento' by James McKean, Ian Rankin, Julia Child, 'The Simple Art of Perfect Baking' by Flo Braker, Jose LaTour, Leslie Forbes, Jasper Fforde, Barbara Nadel, Batya Gur, 'The Debt to Pleasure' by John Lanchester, 'Smilla's Sense of Snow' by Peter Hoeg, 'No Fixed Address' by Aritha Van Herk, Andrew Vachss, Nicholas Freeling, 'The Underpainter' by Jane Urquhart, Divisadero' by Michael Ondaatje, 'Bunker 13' by Aniruddha Bahal, Timothy Taylor, William Gibson, Charles Stross, Corey Doctorow, David Louise Edelman, Donna Leon, E. Annie Proulx, Mavis Gallant, 'The Night Ferry' by Michael Robotham, 'A Suitable Boy' and 'An Unequal Music' by Vikram Seth, 'Through Black Spruce' by Joseph Boyden, Bruce Chatwin, 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts , 'What the Dog Saw', by Malcolm Gladwell , 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society', by Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows , 'Garlic and Sapphires', by Ruth Reichl, Margo Bates, The City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt, Stieg Larsson, 'The Painter of Battles' by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Henning Mankell, Brazzaville Beach, by William Boyd, 'Dead Set' by Kel Robertson, 'The Book of Salt' by Monique Truong, 'Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress' by Dai Sijie, My Stroke of Insight, by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, The Blood Spilt, by Asa Larsson, Gentle Care by Moyra Jones, Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier (author) and Barbara Harshav (translator), Click by Bill Tancer, 'The Man from Beijing', by Henning Mankell, Small g: A Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith, Linchpin by Seth Godin, Print magazine, Late Nights on Air, by Elizabeth Hay, Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong, The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis , Who Killed Mom?, by Steve Burgess, The Black Path, by Asa Larsson, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, In One Person, by John Irving, Inspector Montalbano series by Author Andrea Camilleri, The Riverbones, by Andrew Westoll, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Adam Blum, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, P.S. Don't Tell Your Mother by Margo Bates, John Sandford, Marcia Muller, David Rosenfelt, Donato Carrisi, Monica Ferris, Peter May, Jeffrey Cohen, Karin Slaughter, Kate Wilhelm, 'The Road to Keringet' by Maggie Ziegler, Thomas Perry, Joe Ide, Sheena Kamal, J.A. Jance, Anne Holt, Haruki Murakami, David Baldacci, Judith Flanders, Floating City by Kerri Sakamoto, Daniel Silva, Elizabeth Strout, S. J. Rozan, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Mo Hayder, Taylor Stevens, Chris Pavone, Roger Hobbs, Don Winslow, Louise Penny, Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, Keigo Higashino, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Gail Bowen, Deborah Crombie, Archer Mayor, Jane Harper, Rosalie Hamm, Linden MacIntyre, Matthew Dunn, Ian Hamilton, Nina George, The Art of the Pie by Kate MacDermott, Robert Gailbraith, Ben Aaronovitch, M.C. Beaton, Peter Temple, Chris Hammer, Peter Grainger, Garry Disher, Jacqueline Winspear, C.V. Gauthier, Rick Riordan, Mick Herron, Kwei Quartey, Jassy Mackenzie's Jade de Jong series - Stolen Lives, The Fallen, Pale Horses and Bad Seeds, The Song is You by Arthur Phillips, Stuart MacBride, the Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko, The Alice Network by Kate Quinn and Elly Griffiths.