The novelist Jenny Colgan joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss R.F. Delderfield's epic of life in an English boarding school between the wars. Craig Brown's Ma'am Darling and Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood are the books we've been reading this week.

Books Mentioned:

Jason Hazley and Joel Morris - Ladybird Books
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
R. F. Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days, God is an Englishman
Jenny Colgan - Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery, Doctor Who, Welcome to Rosie Hopkins Sweet Shop of Dreams
John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
H E Bates - Fair Stood the Wind for France, The Darling Buds of May, The Dreaming Suburb, The Avenue Goes to War
Iris Murdoch - Under the Net
Nevil Shute - Town Like Alice
Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy
George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
Julianne Pachico - The Lucky Ones
Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling
Vladimir Nabokov - The Gift
James Hilton - Goodbye Mr Chips
D. J. Taylors - The Prose Factory
R. C. Sheriff - Fortnight in September
Norman Collins - London Belongs to Me

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