Richard King, author of How Soon Is Now and Original Rockers, visits Backlisted to talk about Maiden Voyage, an extraordinarily vivid memoir by Denton Welch of his early life in England and China.

Books Mentioned:

David Seabrook - All the Devils Are Here
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Richard King - Original Rockers, How Soon Is Now
Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage, In Youth Is Pleasure, The Journals of Denton Welch, A Voice Through a Cloud
Jay Griffiths - Wild: An Elemental Journey, Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression
Kay Redfield Jamison - Unquiet Mind
Sjon - Moonstone
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Stevie Smith - Novel on Yellow Paper
Derek Jarman - Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman

Other Links

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Stanley Spencer
Quoted biography
Sussex County Magazine