The Book Alchemist with Heather Suttie and Seb McKay

Seb McKay is probably Oscar Wilde's biggest fan, he loves reading and words are his life. Seb is a self confessed nerd; he loves Japanese culture, shares the bookshops he loves and how a year of reading dangerously changed the way he reads.

We discuss the books and authors which have great meaning for him:

• Blurb Your Enthusiasm by Louise Wilder
• Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa
• Other People's Beds by Anna Punsoda 
• Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
• The Portrait of Dorian Gray
• Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman