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

Other Links:

• TV series

• A J Cronin

• Middlebrow Network

• Robin Denniston

• Carry On Sergeant