Tea or Books? #59: Hard vs Easy Holiday Reading, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle vs The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson and holiday reading – welcome to episode 59!   In the first half of this episode, we look at holiday reading – chiefly whether we prefer easy or difficult books when we go off on holiday, but we

Shirley Jackson and holiday reading – welcome to episode 59!

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In the first half of this episode, we look at holiday reading – chiefly whether we prefer easy or difficult books when we go off on holiday, but we also look at other potential reading options. In the second half, we look at two novels by the wonderful Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

Beverley Nichols

E.F. Benson

By Auction by Denis Mackail

Greenery Street by Denis Mackail

Ian and Felicity by Denis Mackail

The Majestic Mystery by Denis Mackail

Chelbury Abbey by Denis Mackail

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Philip Larkin

Elizabeth Taylor

Dorothy Whipple

Virginia Woolf

Buttercups and Daisies by Compton Mackenzie

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge

A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Stephen Leacock

Italo Calvino

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Tom Hanks

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

Daphne du Maurier

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

Provincial Lady series by E.M. Delafield

The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson

The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins