Elizabeth Strout is our author this episode – and we also dip a toe in the worlds of Canadian and Irish literature. Spoilers: we know a lot less than we should. Suggestions welcomed, please!   I’m off to Canada shortly,

Elizabeth Strout is our author this episode – and we also dip a toe in the worlds of Canadian and Irish literature. Spoilers: we know a lot less than we should. Suggestions welcomed, please!


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I’m off to Canada shortly, which is why we chose the first topic – and nothing much links Canada and Ireland other than the fact that I’ve thought they’d be interesting nations’ literature to talk about. In the second half, we turn to an American writer – a modern one, no less! – Elizabeth Strout. She’s literally still alive, guys. That modern.


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Look out for an inelegant bit where I sub in a clip because I got the title of a Stef Penney novel wrong. #Professional.


Here are the books and authors we mention:


Silas Marner by George Eliot

Ulysses by James Joyce

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell

Jacob’s Room is Full of Books by Susan Hill

Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

Agatha Christie

Another Part of the Wood by Beryl Bainbridge

Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge

Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh

I Follow But Myself by Frank Baker

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Margaret Atwood

Alice Munro

Elizabeth Bowen

Molly Keane / MJ Farrell

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Seamus Heaney

Carol Shields

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

Over the Footlights by Stephen Leacock

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Translations by Brian Friel

Oscar Wilde

George Bernard Shaw

The Gingerbread Woman by Jennifer Johnston

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Anne Tyler

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (who is Canadian!)

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford

Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford