Tea or Books? #70: Simon Takes a Tour of Rachel’s Bookshelves

Simon visited Rachel – so naturally took a look around the shelves. Come for the tour! In a change from scheduled programming, we do a slightly different episode. I was staying with Rachel in her beautiful flat while I was

Simon visited Rachel – so naturally took a look around the shelves. Come for the tour!

In a change from scheduled programming, we do a slightly different episode. I was staying with Rachel in her beautiful flat while I was at a conference – and we thought it would be fun for me to take a tour of her shelves, discussing the books that caught our eye as we went around. We’ll be back to normal service next time – and hopefully I’ll be able to return the favour with my shelves at some point.

We don’t usually record quite this haphazardly, so fingers crossed the audio is OK. And, don’t forget, you can support the podcast at Patreon, see us at iTunes, and please do rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts. And do get in touch if you have any ideas for future episodes – particularly for the first halves.

We’re gonna mention a LOT of books and authors in this podcast, so ready yourself for a super long list:

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood

Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Mrs Christopher by Elizabeth Myers

Littleton Powys

A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys

Wolf Solvent by John Cowper Powys

A Baker’s Dozen by Llewellyn Powys

Mr Weston’s Good Wine by T.F. Powys

The Letters of Elizabeth Myers

Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton

Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

The Loved and Envied by Enid Bagnold

The Squire by Enid Bagnold

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Henrietta’s War by Joyce Dennys

Alva & Irva by Edward Carey

Little by Edward Carey

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd

Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater

The Green Road by Anne Enright

The Boat by L.P. Hartley

Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

A Perfect Woman by L.P. Hartley

News of the World by Paulette Giles

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Four Hedges by Claire Leighton

Rosamund Lehmann

Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden

The Green Leaves of Summer by Oriel Malet

Marjory Fleming by Oriel Malet

Letters from Menabilly by Daphne du Maurier

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Four Days’ Wonder by A.A. Milne

Nancy Mitford

The Happy Tree by Rosalind Murray

Marilynne Robinson

Dorothy L Sayers

The Gipsy in the Parlour by Margery Sharp

Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith

Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther

Elizabeth Taylor

A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark

Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray

The Country Child by Alice Uttley

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland

Sarah Waters

Evelyn Waugh

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

Stoner by John Williams

Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

Edith Wharton

Dorothy Whipple

All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

Noel Streatfeild

Finn Family Moonmintroll by Tove Jansson

E.M. Delafield

Jane Austen

Mallory Towers series by Enid Blyton

St Clare’s series by Enid Blyton

Miss Read

Little House on the Prarie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E.M. Delafield

Mazo de la Roche

How Like an Angel by A.G. Macdonnell

England, Their England by A.G. Macdonnell

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Goodnight, Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian

Teaching Grammar Through Literature by Rachel Fenn (!!) and Anna McGlynn

Happily Ever After by Susannah Fullerton

The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford

The Road to Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris

Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne

The Path Through The Trees by Christopher Milne

The Other Day by Dorothy Whipple

Random Commentary by Dorothy Whipple

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson

A Very Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Bluestockings by Jane Robinson

Knole and the Sackvilles by Vita Sackville-West

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood

The Long Weekend by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge

The Houses of the National Trust

The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970 by Martin Salisbury

Station to Station 

Britain’s Lost Railways

A whole bunch of railway books that I couldn’t find the titles for. I just can’t.

Period Piece by Gwen Raverat

A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes