Tea or Books? #13: villainous vs virtuous, and One Fine Day vs London War Notes

  Villains or virtuous folk? No, not describing your hosts Rachel (Book Snob) and me, but enquiring into our favourite types of characters. In the second half, we look at two books by Mollie Panter-Downes: One Fine Day and London War Notes,

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Villains or virtuous folk? No, not describing your hosts Rachel (Book Snob) and me, but enquiring into our favourite types of characters. In the second half, we look at two books by Mollie Panter-Downes: One Fine Day and London War Notes, comparing novel and non-fiction (and ultimately, of course, loving both).

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Here are the books and authors we discuss…

London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton

Journeying Wave by Richmal Crompton

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Celia by E.H. Young

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Pollyanna by Eleanor H Porter

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Atticus Finch)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Joe Gargery)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Emma by Jane Austen (Mr Knightley)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Jane Bennet)

Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Agatha Christie

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

101 Dalmations by Stella Gibbons (Cruella de Vil)

Othello by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes

The Provincial Lady in Wartime by E.M. Delafield

Postscripts by J.B Priestley

The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Thanks for listening!