Tea or Books?

Virginia Woolf, Jane Cholmeley, and authors who wrote too much or not enough – welcome to episode 129!

In the first half, we use a great topic suggestion by David – do we prefer authors who wrote too many books or those who didn’t write enough? And what do we mean by that? It was really fun trying to decide which authors fell into which category.

In the second half, two quite different works of non-fiction: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf and A Bookshop of One’s Own by Jane Cholmeley.

If you’d like to find out more about our appearance at Marlborough Literary Festival – here’s their events info.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

The Visitors by Mary McMinnies

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

P.G. Wodehouse

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Dorothy L. Sayers

Mapp and Lucia series by E.F. Benson

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Barbara Pym

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes

Storm Bird by Mollie Panter-Downes

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

Sanditon by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Dorothy Whipple

Virginia Woolf

Barbara Comyns

Muriel Spark

Mary Essex/Ursula Bloom

Paul Gallico

Ian McEwan

Michael Cunningham

Mary Lawson

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Sarah Waters

Adele and Co by Dornford Yates

Tove Jansson

The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

To The North by Elizabeth Bowen

Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett (Noel Stratfeild)

High Wages by Dorothy Whipple