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

• Wode

• Stanley Spencer

• Quoted biography

• Sussex County Magazine