Tea or Books? #119: Amateur Sleuths or Professional Detectives? and Women Talking vs Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

Tea or Books?

English - July 30, 2023 11:11 - 71.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
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Miriam Toews, Olga Tokarczuk and detective fiction – welcome to episode 119! In the first half of this episode, we discuss detective fiction – do we prefer the mystery-solver to be a professional or an amateur? And in the second

Miriam Toews, Olga Tokarczuk and detective fiction – welcome to episode 119!

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In the first half of this episode, we discuss detective fiction – do we prefer the mystery-solver to be a professional or an amateur? And in the second half we compare two fairly recent novels – Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Women Talking by Miriam Toews.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau by Sheena Wilkinson

Day by Michael Cunningham

No Leading Lady by R.C. Sherriff

Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff

Marghanita Laski

The Dark Fantastic by Margaret Echard

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Love-Child by Edith Olivier

The Venetian Glass Nephew by Elinor Wylie

Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple novels by Agatha Christie

Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers

Jackson Brodie novels by Kate Atkinson

The Thursday Club Murders by Richard Osman

Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Sergeant Cluff series by Gil North

Mrs Bradley series by Gladys Mitchell

Quick Curtain by Alan Melville

Maigret series by Georges Simenon

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge

A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

William Blake

The Book of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

The English Air by D.E. Stevenson

The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson