Tea or Books? #87: Biographies vs Novels about Real People and Emma by Jane Austen and Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater

Jane Austen, Jane and Mary Findlater, and – it’s episode 87!   We recorded this episode a little while ago and I have been lazy at editing – but here we are. Hope you like our lovely new logo, courtesy

Jane Austen, Jane and Mary Findlater, and – it’s episode 87!

We recorded this episode a little while ago and I have been lazy at editing – but here we are. Hope you like our lovely new logo, courtesy of my graphic designer friend Ellie.

In the first half of this episode, we discuss novels based on real people vs biographies – in the second half, Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater vs a book it seemed a little based on, Emma by Jane Austen.

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Oh, and you can find a snippet of me recommending a lovely summer read in the latest Book Club Review Podcast – have a hunt for that in your apps.

Books and authors we mention in this podcast:

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Human Kind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

A House in the Country by Ruth Adam

Airhead by Emily Maitlis

A Woman’s Place by Ruth Adam

A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair

Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers

Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee

Alexandra Harris

Hermione Lee

Quentin Bell

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes

Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik

Rose Macaulay by Constance Babington-Smith

Rose Macaulay by Jane Emery

Rose Macaulay by Sarah LeFanu

The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm

Anne Stevenson

According to Mark by Penelope Lively

Summer in February by Jonathan Smith

Stevenson Under the Palm Trees by Alberto Manguel

Nicola Upson

Josephine Tey

Gyles Brandreth

Oscar Wilde

Dorothy L. Sayers

The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson

The Three Sisters by May Sinclair

The Three Brontes by May Sinclair

Larchfield by Polly Clark

Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin

The Story of Charlotte’s Web by Michael Sims

Arthur and Sherlock by Michael Sims

Parson Austen’s Daughter by Helen Ashton

Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton

More Women Than Men by Ivy Compton-Burnett

A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Elizabeth Gaskell

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro