Tea or Books? #50: Question & Answer

To celebrate episode 50, we are doing a question and answer episode!   I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas – I’m editing this a few days before Christmas, but I’m going to assume that a wonderful time was

To celebrate episode 50, we are doing a question and answer episode!

I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas – I’m editing this a few days before Christmas, but I’m going to assume that a wonderful time was had by all. We were really delighted with all the questions that were sent in (thank you!) and have picked 36 of them to discuss in this episode. Tune in in two years’ time for more questions and answers in episode 100!

You can see our iTunes page here, and we always welcome reviews and ratings. We’ll be back in the new year with books we think the other one will love – I chose The Boat by L.P. Hartley for Rachel, and Rachel chose Wallace Stegner’s Crossing To Safety for me.

The books and authors we mention in today’s episode are:

The Railway Journey by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Dorothy Whipple

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Crazy Pavements by Beverley Nichols

J.B. Priestley (John!)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Emma by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Aunt Mame by Patrick Dennis

Barbara Pym

The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch

Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

The Shelf by Phyllis Rose

The Year of Reading Proust by Phyllis Rose

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust

The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E.M. Delafield

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

Tristan Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

Shamela by Henry Fielding

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Marilynne Robinson

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

The Runaway by Claire Wong

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Enid Blyton

J.K. Rowling

Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins

Mr Pim Passes By by A.A. Milne

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

The Gourmet by Muriel Barbery

The Boat by L.P. Hartley

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner