Tabatha Stirling

About Me

Why do you write?

I'm the weirdo in restaurants, bus stops, shopping malls and train stations that gives everybody a terribly dark back story. I am still trying to keep my oddest thoughts to myself. Strangers really don't like that sort of thing. So I smile and nod and think how they would reach their demise.

I recently wrote a one act play about a school shooting. That was an exhausting piece. But so worth it. And I hope it honoured, in some small way, everybody affected by this tragic phenomena.

My poetry is imagery on sherbet dips.

Any favorite authors? Books?

I hate these questions *mutter mutter* *dark looks*

Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemmingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Lesley Glaister, Stuart McBride, Joe Abercrombie, Peter V Brett, Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Simone de Beauvoir, Lionel Shriver, Denise Mina, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Laurie Lee.

Of Human Bondage
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Girl With All The Gifts
Bad Seed
The Secret History
Redcap Runs Away
Empire of the Sun
The Wide Sargasso Sea
Good Morning, Midnight
Brideshead Revisited
Love in a Cold Climate
The Passage
Jonathan Norrell and Mr Strange
The Book Thief
Maus
She Came to Stay