What inspires us
Everything we experience forms a part of who we are and what we do and therefore what we offer. We rely heavily on the arts to inspire us and this is critical to us as individuals as well as a business.
Everyone at Creamer and Lloyd has their own budget for research and inspiration. On a regular basis we share on our website the best experiences we’ve had.
Tag: books
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Caribou Island by David Vann
Caribou Island is startling in its fearlessness, confronting the reality of wasted love; of a wasted life. This gripping tale of marital and mental breakdown is set against the luscious landscape of a bright cold Alaskan winter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/02/david-vann-caribou-island-interview -
Samantha Harvey and Tessa Hadley in Conversation
Hadley is one of my favourite contemporary writers, but I hadn't come across Harvey until this free event at Foyles bookshop. Both writers really gelled, making for an honest and inspiring conversation about the mysterious compulsion to write.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/married-love-by-tessa-hadley-6285281.html -
John Updike
I've never read anything by him before but in Rabbit Run the sheer richness of his language and descriptive detail is filmic. But not everything is explained so you find yourself having to go back and re-read passages. He's making me work hard.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rabbit-Run-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141187832/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328011364&sr=1-1 -
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
It was one of those books that I quite liked at the time and then wouldn’t go away. In fact, it has lingered and grown and there’s now a gentle halo around it in my memory.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jan/19/fiction.features -
'Let the Great World Spin' by Colum McCann
A rollicking novel set in the big apple in 1974. Disparate lives collide as a man walks the wire between the twin towers. Unputdownable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/30/let-great-world-spin-mccann -
Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
Romantics and science. Learning about Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, explorations in Tahiti. Takes me to another time and place when there was always something new to discover.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/11/richard-holmes -
Howard Jacobson
Hot on the heels of his Man Booker success, he was exhausted, almost voiceless but happy. However, poke him a little and he gets going! Genuinely funny, occasionally frustrated and angry, insightful and now forgiving - at least to those Booker judges.
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1459 -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus:
She brilliantly drew me in to worlds (Nigeria, religion, abuse) in which I have no experience, and held me there
http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/ -
Fire and Knives
Intelligent and highly entertaining new publication on food. Proves it can be done
http://fireandknives.com/ -
Anne Michaels reading from The Winter Vault
There can be something really insightful about a writer reading their own work – the measured pace and tone of her voice has stayed with me as I read her book.
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Truth to Power
Arundhati Roy talking to Shami Chakrabarti at Southbank Centre. A moving and genuinely provocative discussion on the fallacy of democracy and the ‘language heists’ used by governments to control and constrain.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090707/ART/707069984/1007 -
Iain Sinclair
An extraordinary author who weaves fiction and fact together to expose the madness of Hackney
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Sinclair -
The Year of Magical Thinking
The book and the play offer two extraordinary experiences about grief and grieving
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/magicalthinking
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