China Miéville, author of one of my favourite novels this past year The City and the City, talks to Claire Armitstead about the six books that inspired him for a new Guardian Books podcast series ‘The Books That Made Me’. The books range from Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Jeremy Fisher to Max Ernst’s surrealist Une Semaine de Bonté:
The Books That Made Me: China Mieville
Miéville latest novel is Kraken.
a fine ben pieratt design. Something tells me they made him put that white blur bar behind the author name though…
Hey, thanks Ian. I didn’t know that was a Pieratt design. Nice one Ben! :-)
Nope, not me. Done by Fwis after I’d already left. (Much to my chagrin, being a huge Miéville fan myself)
Ah. Too bad, Ben. Sorry for the misattribution.