In her ‘Bookshelfie’ episode of The Women’s Prize Podcast (released October 2020), Ruby Wax chose five books which have impacted her life and career, which you can browse here. In this episode, Ruby reminisces about her troubled upbringing, how she was arrested for her civil rights activism at university and her joyful time training with Alan Rickman at the RSC. 

The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s podcast is produced in partnership with Baileys. Our Bookshelfie episodes explore the bookshelves of influential women, and invite them to talk about their life and work through the lens of the literature that helped shape them