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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Hugh Walpole and Fortitude - Novels of 1913
Hugh Walpole's Fortitude is a weighty epic of London literary ...
Hugh Walpole's Fortitude is a weighty epic of London literary life, Cornish Gothic, Victorian anarchists and the necessity of a public school background for getting on in life. it also contains the kindest boarding house written in the Edwardian...
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Una L Silberrad and Keren of Lowbole - Novels of 1913
The totally forgotten author Una L Silberrad and her totally ...
The totally forgotten author Una L Silberrad and her totally wonderful historical novel of 1913, Keren of Lowbole: witchcraft, alchemy, theology, attempted adultery, a heroine more interested in being a scientist than a housewife, and the mysterious...
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Saki and When William Came - Novels of 1913
When the German Empire invaded the British Empire's homeland, the ...
When the German Empire invaded the British Empire's homeland, the British either scuttled off to Delhi, to live out their tragic, dispossessed lives in tea plantations where they could salute the Union Jack in safety, or stayed at home, supine under...
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John Buchan and The Power-House - Novels of 1913
Join perplexed lawyer Edward Leithen in John Buchan's The Power-House ...
Join perplexed lawyer Edward Leithen in John Buchan's The Power-House as he battles assassination attempts in central London, and avoids kidnap by building site, just because he's made the connection between a fleeing diplomat-adventurer in Russia and...
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E C Bentley and Trent's Last Case - Novels of 1913
Trent's Last Case is a very modern Edwardian detective novel, ...
Trent's Last Case is a very modern Edwardian detective novel, with a Bohemian setting, the police in a cosy relationship with the media, and a cracking good mystery to solve ahead of the artist-journalist-detective hero.
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Susan Coolidge and the What Katy Did books - Really Randoms 5
Three stories of a girl growing up in Ohio, in ...
Three stories of a girl growing up in Ohio, in Connecticut, and travelling in Europe, which make a wonderful picture of 19th-century Victorian America. Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did, What Katy Did At School, and What Katy Did Next, are about natural,...
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Louisa May Alcott and Good Wives - Really Randoms 4
In Kipling's The Naulakha, Kate goes to New York to ...
In Kipling's The Naulakha, Kate goes to New York to train as a nurse. In Louisa May Alcott's Good Wives, Jo goes to New York to work independently as a writer, and turns into a hack journalist for the blood and thunder magazines of the 1860s. But she...
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Rudyard Kipling and The Naulahka - Really Randoms 3
Rudyard Kipling's jointly written novel with a writer we've all ...
Rudyard Kipling's jointly written novel with a writer we've all forgotten is really very good. The Naulakha may be spelt wrong (Kipling's fault) but its a gripping mix of Victorian adventure and trouncing of feminist aspirations, set in a very corrupt...
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Gene Wolfe and The Shadow of the Torturer - Really Randoms 3
Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer is about Severian, ...
Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer is about Severian, an apprentice torturer who is banished by his masters. His crime: to allow a client to die sooner than the law had intended. His mission: to not shame the guild. His real mission: to return...
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Rosy Barnes and Sadomasochism for Accountants - Really Randoms 1
It's not at all what you think it is, although ...
It's not at all what you think it is, although a lot of Rosy Barnes's novel Sadomasochism for Accountants takes place in a fetish club. Half of the characters are sweeties, the other half are vile: watch their comeuppance and enjoy the freeing of...
