For our special hundredth episode, Rachel and I are doing a question and answer. Thanks so much to everybody who sent in questions – we didn’t get to all of them, but hopefully we answered at least one of yours.

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For our special hundredth episode, Rachel and I are doing a question and answer. Thanks so much to everybody who sent in questions – we didn’t get to all of them, but hopefully we answered at least one of yours.


Do get in touch at [email protected] if you’d like to ask anything for future episodes. Reviews and ratings very gratefully received, especially if they’re nice!


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The books and authors we mention in this are:


Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Willow Cabin by Pamela Frankau

A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau

Marriage of Harlequin by Pamela Frankau

The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden

The Semi-Attached Couple by Emily Eden

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton

Provincial Lady series by E.M. Delafield

Tension by E.M. Delafield

Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield

Consequences by E.M. Delafield

Another Country by James Baldwin

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

Pieces by Helen Oyeyemi

Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers

Whose Body by Dorothy L Sayers

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers

Jazz by Toni Morrison

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A.A. Milne

Modern Humour

The Feminine Middlebrow Novel by Nicola Humble

A Very Great Profession by Nicola Humble

Mindy Kaling

Issa Rae

Anna Kendrick

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Donna Tartt

Milan Kundera

Leo Tolstoy

Margery Sharp

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Louisa M. Alcott

The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Mr Pim Passes By by A.A. Milne

Richmal Crompton

Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd

Wurzel Gummidge by Barbara Euphan Todd

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Emma by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Thrush Green series by Miss Read

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

National Provincial by Lettice Cooper

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge

London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes

Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

Muriel Spark

Speaking of Love by Angela Young

Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford

Told in Winter by Jon Godden

Rumer Godden

Dan Brown

The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Zadie Smith

Mary Webb

O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay

Mamma by Diana Tutton

Tea Is So Intoxicating by Mary Essex

Father by Elizabeth von Arnim

A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse

Messalina of the Suburbs by E.M. Delafield

Mapp and Lucia series by E.F. Benson

A Visit to Don Otavio by Sybille Bedford

Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

The Years by Virginia Woolf

Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Nemo’s Almanac

Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

Miss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Marilynne Robinson