Tea or Books? #28: scary vs not scary, and The Home-Maker vs The Victorian Chaise-Longue

Two Persephone titles will help solace us in these bizarre post-election days.   We’ve been away for a while because I lost my voice – sorry! – but Rachel (Book Snob) and I are back, talking about The Victorian Chaise-Longue by

Two Persephone titles will help solace us in these bizarre post-election days.

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We’ve been away for a while because I lost my voice – sorry! – but Rachel (Book Snob) and I are back, talking about The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski and The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Before that, we chat scary books, because we haven’t recorded since Hallowe’en.

The world is a scary place right now. I have not come to terms with Trump being President-Elect at all. The idea that somebody could wage a campaign in that way and win… it’s just inconceivable. So let’s turn to books, at least for a moment or two.

We’d love to hear what you’d pick in each of these categories, and any ideas for future episodes. Listen above, via your podcast app of choice, or at our iTunes page. Why not even rate and review us?

Here are the books and authors we mention in this episode…

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham (I think I forgot to say the title of any of hers…)

The Real Mrs Miniver by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

Private Demons: the Life of Shirley Jackson by Judy Oppenheimer

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Agatha Christie

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Edgar Allan Poe

Mist and other stories by Richmal Crompton

Ghost stories by Edith Wharton

Casting the Runes by M. R. James

Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Don’t Look Now and other stories by Daphne du Maurier

Goosebumps

Point Horror

Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski

The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Her Son’s Wife by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Love on the Supertax by Marghanita Laski

Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood

Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

The Village by Marghanita Laski