Tea or Books? #77: Fantasy vs Fantastic Fiction and Wine of Honour vs Beneath the Visiting Moon

World War Two fiction and the difference between fantasy and fantastic fiction – welcome to episode 77! In the first half of this episode, I dive back into the topic of my DPhil and we talk about fantastic and fantasy

World War Two fiction and the difference between fantasy and fantastic fiction – welcome to episode 77!

In the first half of this episode, I dive back into the topic of my DPhil and we talk about fantastic and fantasy fiction. In the second half we compare two of the new Furrowed Middlebrow reprints from Dean Street Press – Beneath the Visiting Moon by Romilly Cavan and Wine of Honour by Barbara Beauchamp.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth

A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne

Eric Rabkin

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

The Love Child by Edith Olivier

Game of Thrones series by George R.R. Martin

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

Lady Into Fox by David Garnett

Daniel Defoe

The Sheik by E.M. Hull

Miss Carter and the Ifrit by Susan Alice Kerby

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple

Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple

The House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair

Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon

The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski

Look Back With Love by Dodie Smith

Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff

I Was A Stranger by John Hackett

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Corduroy by Adrian Bell

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

The Village by Marghanita Laski

Elizabeth von Arnim

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Sanditon by Jane Austen

The Watsons by Jane Austen

Lady Susan by Jane Austen