Tea or Books? #32: jobs in books, and Atonement vs On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan helps us get dangerously modern in our latest ‘Tea or Books?’ episode, as we chat about Atonement and On Chesil Beach (along with a whole bunch of his other books) – while, in the first half, we discuss whether or

Ian McEwan helps us get dangerously modern in our latest ‘Tea or Books?’ episode, as we chat about Atonement and On Chesil Beach (along with a whole bunch of his other books) – while, in the first half, we discuss whether or not we want to read novels in which one or more characters do our jobs. You can see why I have opted for something briefer in our subject line.

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As announced, there’s a crossover episode next time – I will be joined by my brother Colin, doing half-books and half-movies. Check out his podcast (especially if you want some clues as to what the format might be). Sorry that Rachel will be absent for an episode – but she’ll be back for glorious episode 34, in which we’ll be discussing E.M. Delafield’s Messalina of the Suburbs and F Tennyson Jesse’s A Pin to See The Peepshow. You’ve got a whole month to prepare!

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Here are the (many!) books and authors we natter about in this episode:

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Stoner by John Williams

Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Then We Came To An End by Joshua Ferris

Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin

A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark

Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

London Belongs To Me by Norman Collins

Faster! Faster! by E.M. Delafield

High Wages by Dorothy Whipple

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope

Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton

The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey

Alva and Irva by Edward Carey

Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (actually published in 1935, not 1910, sorry!)

Atonement by Ian McEwan

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Ulysses by James Joyce

Nutshell by Ian McEwan

Virginia by Jens Christian Grøndahl

A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth

Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar

Solar by Ian McEwan

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

The Child in Time by Ian McEwan

Messalina of the Suburbs by E.M. Delafield

A Pin to See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse

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

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis