Tea or Books? #76: Illustrations (yes or not), and Miss Hargreaves vs Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

Miss Hargreaves! Finally! But also illustrations and a novel by Rachel Malik. In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether or not we want illustrations in our books – taking a little venture to graphic novels on the

Miss Hargreaves! Finally! But also illustrations and a novel by Rachel Malik.

In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether or not we want illustrations in our books – taking a little venture to graphic novels on the way. In the second half – only four years after the podcast started – we finally read my favourite novel, Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker. We compare it to the similarly-named Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik, and discover that that’s about all it has in common.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner

Fair Stood the Wind For France by H.E. Bates

Dark Hester by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The Old Countess by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen

Sylvia Plath

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Edith Olivier

Tove Jansson: Work and Love by Tuula Karjalainen

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin

Enid Blyton

The Making Of by Brecht Evens

Panther by Brecht Evens

The Wrong Place by Brecht Evens

Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks

Emma by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Charles Dickens

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Little by Edward Carey

Alva and Irva by Edward Carey

Country Matters by Clare Leighton

The Heir by Vita Sackville-West

Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson

Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

Agatha Christie

Curtain by Agatha Christie

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

The Love-Child by Edith Olivier

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Before I Go Hence by Frank Baker

I Follow But Myself by Frank Baker (autobiography)

Mr Allenby Loses The Way by Frank Baker

The Shooting Party by Isobel Colegate

Beneath the Visiting Moon by Romilly Cavan

Wine of Honour by Barbara Beauchamp