Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss Edmund Gosse's account of growing up the son of a widowed Victorian fundementalist preacher. The trio also talk about Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams, and Spanish Crossings, the second novel by John Simmons.

Books Mentioned:

• Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

• Edmund Gosse - Father and Son

• Sarah Perry - After Me Comes the Flood, The Essex Serpent

• Eley Williams - Attrib. and Other Stories

• Padgett Powell - The Interrogative Mood

• George Saunders - Tenth of December

• John Simmons - Spanish Crossings

• Claire Scobie - The Pagoda Tree

• Miriam Toews - A Complicated Kindness

• Ann Thwaite - Edmund Gosse

Other Links:

• Cabin Pressure

• Giant Rat Sumatra

• Geoffrey Palmer reading

• Potter's Where Adam Stood

• Edmund Gosse lecture

• Father and Son by Cat Stevens