Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, and venturing into the worldly…   In the first half of this episode, we look at… domestic books vs worldly books? Or something like that? We never quite worked out what we meant, but we

 


Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, and venturing into the worldly…


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In the first half of this episode, we look at… domestic books vs worldly books? Or something like that? We never quite worked out what we meant, but we still had things to say. In the second half, we look at two collections of short stories by Elizabeths – Elizabeth Taylor’s The Devastating Boys and a collection of Elizabeth Bowen’s stories called The Demon Lover (UK edition) and Ivy Gripped The Steps (US edition). I wasn’t sure we’d manage to disentangle them, but I think we got there.


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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:


Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Cross of Christ by John Stott

The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki

The Unbearable Bassington by Saki

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Sarah Waters

Little by Edward Carey

Jane Austen

Ali Smith

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Howards End by E.M. Forster

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Benjamin Disraeli

The Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

Richard III by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras

Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

The Masters by C.P. Snow

The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam

Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

A Merry Christmas, and other Christmas stories by Louisa May Alcott

Barbara Pym

At Mrs Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor

The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor

A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor

Alva & Irva by Edward Carey