Tea or Books? #96: Should Offensive Books Be Republished? and two Barbara Pyms

In this episode, we ask whether or not offensive books should be republished – you might remember the same conversation happening here on StuckinaBook a while ago, and it was interesting to visit it with Rachel. In the second half,

In this episode, we ask whether or not offensive books should be republished – you might remember the same conversation happening here on StuckinaBook a while ago, and it was interesting to visit it with Rachel. In the second half, we pit two Barbara Pym novels against each other – Crampton Hodnet and A Glass of Blessings.

Sorry it’s been a while – we actually recorded this a couple of weeks ago but it’s been too hot for me to edit a podcast. I know that doesn’t make sense, but I’m sticking to it.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

I Ordered a Table for Six by Noel Streatfeild

Saplings by Noel Streatfeild

Miss Linsey and Pa by Stella Gibbons

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym

Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

Philip Larkin

An Academic Question by Barbara Pym

A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

Walter Pater

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Emma by Jane Austen

Tension by E.M. Delafield

Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield