John and Andy are joined on the Backlisted podcast by writer and critic Jennifer Hodgson to discuss Berg the ground-breaking first novel by British experimental pioneer Ann Quin, first published in 1964. As well as Berg the trio discuss The Unmapped Country, a collection of lost stories and fragments, edited by Jennifer, and just published by the excellent indie publisher, And Other Stories. There's also Andy giving a spellbinding reading from Your Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat) by Andrew Hankinson (Scribe) and John battling past the title to find hidden treasure in Yorkshire: A Lyrical History by archaeologist and polymath, Richard Morris (Weidenfeld & Nicholson).

Books mentioned:

Ann Quin - Three; Passages; Tripticks;
David Seabrook - All the Devils Are Here
B.S.Johnson - Aren't You Rather Young to Be Writing Your Memoirs
Samuel Beckett - Murphy
George Melly - Revolt Into Style
Jeff Nuttall - Bomb Culture
Unbound project of the week:

The Hidden Matrix: Myth & the Human Mind by Neil Philip - get free postage by using the code QUIN at checkout