Resources and items of interest for readers

Listed here, for your reading pleasure, are some books which either to some extent influenced my novel Still Waters or which I have enjoyed reading since.

I feel that all these books either reflect, or amplify, the themes which Still Waters raises. I’ll be writing in my newsletter about various books that I come across. If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please click here.

Hope you choose to enjoy some or all of them!

Fact

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us.

Robert D Hare Phd

A fascinating read by one of the world’s leading experts into psychopathic behaviour.

The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine and High-Stakes Science

Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan

An examination of a case of multiple infanticide by a New York mother and the effect which the case had on the handling of SIDS prevention and investigation for twenty years.

Georgia Tann: The Baby Seller who Corrupted Adoption

Barbara Bisantz Raymond

The riveting true story of the woman who popularised American adoption in the 1920’s; her motives, methods and the lives she affected.

Fiction

The Outsider

Albert Camus

The classic, first-person narrative of Meursault, a man for whom all pleasures in life are tactile and physical.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

A chilling examination of a teenage mass murderer and the mother who raised him.