Tea or Books? #85: One House or Many Houses, and A Thatched Roof vs Fresh From The Country

Houses, Miss Read, Beverley Nichols! In the first half of today’s episode, we look at whether we prefer novels that stay in one house or those that go all over the place. In the second half, we explore two novels

Houses, Miss Read, Beverley Nichols!

In the first half of today’s episode, we look at whether we prefer novels that stay in one house or those that go all over the place. In the second half, we explore two novels that contrast the countryside and the town: Beverley Nichol’s fictionalised-autobiography A Thatched Roof and Miss Read’s Fresh From the Country.

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Books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

Fidelity by Susan Glaspell

Brooke Evans by Susan Glaspell

The Glory of the Conquered by Susan Glaspell

Our Man in Havana by Grahame Greene

The City and the City by China Miéville

My Discovery of England by Stephen Leacock

The Provincial Lady in America by E.M. Delafield

The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Rosamunde Pilcher

Daphne du Maurier

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Yellow by Janni Visman

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski

Mrs Tim of the Regiment by D.E. Stevenson

The New House by Lettice Cooper

Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Heir by Vita Sackville-West

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Thornyhold by Mary Stewart

Sarah Waters

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Ivy Compton-Burnett

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

A Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane

Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols

A Village in a Valley by Beverley Nichols

Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols

Sunlight on the Lawn by Beverley Nichols

Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson

Powers That Be by E.F. Benson

George Orwell

Thrush Green series by Miss Read

When I Was A Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford