Tea or Books? #44: Monogamous vs Polygamous, and The Village vs To Bed With Grand Music

After a bit of a hiatus, we’re back with an episode about Marghanita Laski and whether we read one book at a time or many books at once. And because that’s a bit of a mouthful, I’m calling it monogamous

After a bit of a hiatus, we’re back with an episode about Marghanita Laski and whether we read one book at a time or many books at once. And because that’s a bit of a mouthful, I’m calling it monogamous vs polygamous. Sorry if you’ve come to this podcast hoping for something else – but stay! We have books.

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We’ve really missed doing the podcast, so it’s great to be back! Do get in touch to let us know which you’d pick in each category, and any topics you’d like us to cover in future episodes. Our iTunes page is here, and we love reviews from those willing to go through the hoops required to leave them!

Here are the books and authors we mention in this episode (fewer than usual, which either means I forgot to write them down while editing the podcast, or we’ve lost our touch!):

Reading the Rocks by Brenda Maddox

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

Contested Will by James Shapiro

The Village by Marghanita Laski

The Osbornes by E.F. Benson

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Henry James

The Road to Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Three Fevers by Leo Walmsley

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Boat by L.P. Hartley

Marching With April by Hugh Charteris

And Even Now by Max Beerbohm

Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards

Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray

To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

The Village by Marghanita Laski

The Provincial Lady in Wartime by E.M. Delafield

Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski

Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

Love on the Supertax by Marghanita Laski

Richmal Crompton

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

Dorothy Whipple

Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther

The Heir by Vita Sackville-West

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West