49. Anita Brookner - Look At Me
In a long awaited episode of the Backlisted podcast John and Andy are joined by Una McCormack and Lucy Scholes to discuss Anita Brookner's third novel Look At Me (1982), a tale of intergalactic piracy in a far off star syste... No, not really.
The Cake And The Rain, Jimmy Webb's memoir of life in the 60's music industry, and We That Are Young a reworking of King Lear set in India by Preti Taneja, are the books John & Andy have been reading.
Books Mentioned:
Anita Brookner - Look At Me, Hotel du Lac, Latecomers, A Start in Life, Providence, Family and Friends, A Friend from England, Falling Slowly, A Closed Eye, A Private View
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Jimmy Webb - The Cake and the Rain
Preti Taneja - We That Are Young
Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire
Jane Austin - Mansfield Park
Georges Simenon - Red Lights
Georgette Heyer - Arabella
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