Tea or Books? #31: lists, yes or no? and The Fortnight in September vs Greengates

Happy new year! Rachel and I are back from a bit of a podcast break, and raring to go for the New Year.   In this episode, we look at two novels by R.C. Sherriff, both published by Persephone, and

Happy new year! Rachel and I are back from a bit of a podcast break, and raring to go for the New Year.

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In this episode, we look at two novels by R.C. Sherriff, both published by Persephone, and we also look back over 2016 and debate whether or not we make and read Best Books of the Year lists. Look, it’s just a way for us to shoe-horn in an overview of our favourite reads from 2016.

As always, we’d love to know what you’d choose from each category, and any ideas you have for future episodes. We’re always so grateful for those – though sometimes we haven’t yet read the authors people mention. We’ll work on it!

Listen to us above, via iTunes, or your podcast app of choice. I’ve been asking people to leave a review at the iTunes site, but it turns out you can only do that through the iTunes app or programme, maybe?

Anyway, we’ll loving being back – apologies for a bit of poor sound quality at times – and here are the books and authors we mention in this episode:

Witness for the Prosecution by R.C. Sherriff

4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie

Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

Third Girl by Agatha Christie

Curiosity by Alberto Manguel

Over the Footlights and Other Fancies by Stephen Leacock

The Lark by E. Nesbit

Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins

The Lost Europeans by Emanuel Litvinoff

Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Complete Works by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson

Messalina of the Suburbs by E.M. Delafield

A Pin to See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse

To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

Margaret Atwood

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Daisy’s Aunt by E.F. Benson

Compton Mackenzie

A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Museum of Cheats by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff

Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton

Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff

(The Cataclysm turns out to be The Hopkins Manuscript under the same name!)