Tea or Books? #120: Travel Inspiration from Fiction or Non-Fiction? and The English Air vs The Morning Gift – with Claire / The Captive Reader

D.E. Stevenson, Eva Ibbotson, travel inspo – welcome to episode 120! We have our first returning guest – the wonderful Claire, who blogs at The Captive Reader. In the first half of this episode, we talk about inspiration from travel

D.E. Stevenson, Eva Ibbotson, travel inspo – welcome to episode 120!

We have our first returning guest – the wonderful Claire, who blogs at The Captive Reader. In the first half of this episode, we talk about inspiration from travel – do we get it from our fiction reading or non-fiction reading?

In the second half, we compare two novels Claire suggested – Eva Ibbotson’s The Morning Gift and D.E. Stevenson’s The English Air, two novels starting just before the Second World War.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry

The Princess of Siberia by Christine Sutherland

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

So Big by Edna Ferber

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

Faith Fox by Jane Gardam

Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie

The Jasmine Farm by Elizabeth von Arnim

Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Benefactress by Elizabeth von Arnim

In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim

Princess Priscilla’s Fortnight by Elizabeth von Arnim

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge

A.A. Milne

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

How The Heather Looks by Joan Bodger

The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen by Elizabeth von Arnim

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Provincial Lady in America by E.M. Delafield

Louisa M. Alcott

Essie Summers

Marianne North

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird

A Visit to Don Otavio by Sybille Bedford

Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Karel Čapek

George Mikes

The Silent Traveller in Oxford by Chiang Yee

Stephen Leacock

Mary Lawson

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

The Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson

Old Filth by Jane Gardam

The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam