Tea or Books? #108: Books with Bite or No Bite; Late and Soon vs A Game of Hide and Seek

Bite, E.M. Delafield, Elizabeth Taylor – welcome to episode 108! In the first half of this episode, we discuss a topic suggested by Gina – do we prefer books with bite or without bite? All will be explained in due

Bite, E.M. Delafield, Elizabeth Taylor – welcome to episode 108!

In the first half of this episode, we discuss a topic suggested by Gina – do we prefer books with bite or without bite? All will be explained in due course… In the second half we pit two books with similar plots against each other: Late and Soon by E.M. Delafield and A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor.

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The books and authors mentioned in this episode are:

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

The Goshawk by T.H. White

T.H. White by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Real and the Romantic by Francis Spalding

Osebol by Marit Kapla

Rose Macaulay

Margery Sharp

Miss Read

O. Douglas

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple

High Wages by Dorothy Whipple

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

Saul Bellow

Elizabeth Fair

Ursula Orange

O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp

The Stone of Chastity by Margery Sharp

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman

Frost at Morning by Richmal Crompton

Heat Wave by Penelope Lively

Heat Lightning by Helen Hull