Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families and Animal Farm vs Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell and families – welcome to episode 105! Rachel is busy this month, so I put a shout-out on our Patreon page to see if anybody would be willing to step in and take her place. I was delighted

George Orwell and families – welcome to episode 105!

Rachel is busy this month, so I put a shout-out on our Patreon page to see if anybody would be willing to step in and take her place. I was delighted that Arwen said yes, and I think you’ll enjoy the chat we had. In the first half, we talk about big vs small families in literature – and in the second half, we compare Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm by George Orwell. Rachel will be back next time, to do the books we previously advertised.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

E.F. Benson

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Philip K Dick

Iain M Banks

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett

Literary Taste by Arnold Bennett

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

Diary of a Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Foe by J.M. Coetzee

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn

Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras

Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Autobiography by Anthony Trollope

Anita Brookner

The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

A Change for the Better by Susan Hill

The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Moomin series by Tove Jansson

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Hunky Parker’s Watching You by Gillian Cross

The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Grand Canyon by Vita Sackville-West