Why I Really Like This Book
English professor Kate Macdonald talks about the books she loves but which don't make it onto the curriculum. These ten-minute audio podcasts are about forgotten fiction, and non-fiction, and are for readers who love to discover something to read that's been around for a while. ...
English professor Kate Macdonald talks about the books she loves but which don't make it onto the curriculum. These ten-minute audio podcasts are about forgotten fiction, and non-fiction, and are for readers who love to discover something to read that's been around for a while. The first series is working through the alphabet by author surname. In 2012 series two will tackle genre fiction.
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E F Benson and Miss Mapp - Novels of 1922
Social tyranny in a small town, in E F Benson's ...
Social tyranny in a small town, in E F Benson's novel of low cunning and outrageous scheming, Miss Mapp. For readers who play bridge for blood.
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Una L Silberrad and The Honest Man - Novels of 1922
It's the late 17th century, and Lady Otterby's spendthrift husband ...
It's the late 17th century, and Lady Otterby's spendthrift husband is betraying his friends and spending any money he can borrow as if honour was going out of fashion. Una L Silberrad's The Honest Man is a sober City merchant who will ride calmly into...
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Rose Macaulay and Mystery at Geneva - Novels of 1922
Secrets and politics and multiple kidnappings at the League of ...
Secrets and politics and multiple kidnappings at the League of Nations, and some pointed messages about early feminism. Rose Macaulay's Mystery at Geneva is a fine satirical novel in the mystery mode. (NB this version replaces the...
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John Buchan and Huntingtower - Novels of 1922
It's got hidden jewels, a princess who can run a ...
It's got hidden jewels, a princess who can run a mile, teenage military commanders, and the rejevenation of a retired grocer. Huntingtower is John Buchan's most delightful and exhilarating outdoor novel of kidnapping and rescue.
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Elizabeth von Arnim and Enchanted April – Novels of 1922
In a wet and cold February, do you ever dream ...
In a wet and cold February, do you ever dream of escaping to a small Italian castle for sunshine and wisteria? Join four unhappy ladies who are longing for the right kind of love, and watch them unfold in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Enchanted April:...
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Sax Rohmer and The Mystery of Fu Manchu - Novels of 1913
Fiendish plots, deadly traps, poison delivered by centipede, psychotropic fungi ...
Fiendish plots, deadly traps, poison delivered by centipede, psychotropic fungi and man-eating mushrooms. Sax Rohmer invents lots of very intricate ways to kill people, delivered by Fu Manchu with contempt for the bumbling Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie...
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E F Benson and Dodo's Daughter - Novels of 1913
Hang out with the frivolous young things of 1913 in ...
Hang out with the frivolous young things of 1913 in a novel that's half Victorian epigram and half modernist stream of consciousness. Dodo's day is not yet over, as she's about to begin her third marriage, while her discontented daughter Nadine is...
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Arnold Bennett and The Regent - Novels of 1913
Bursley businessman takes on London snobbery about provincials and amateurs ...
Bursley businessman takes on London snobbery about provincials and amateurs to build a theatre and run it for profit. Arnold Bennett's The Regent is sparkling, dogged, deeply satisfying, and a penetrating portrait of an Edwardian society that's too...
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Rose Macaulay and The Lee Shore - Novels of 1913
Oh, the awful fate of slithering down the social slope ...
Oh, the awful fate of slithering down the social slope and losing one's class, one's home, one's respectability, but never one's honour. The public school morals of England are given pathos in Rose Macaulay's The Lee Shore, where true happiness is...
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one day at the 2013 Edinburgh Book Festival
Core sampling from the world of book publishing and book ...
Core sampling from the world of book publishing and book festivals in the 30th year of the Edinburgh Book Festival. With extra coverage of The Sorries at The Fringe.
