How do we choose our reading, and E.M. Delafield – welcome to episode 97!   In the first half of the episode, we debate whether to read spontaneously or plan our reading. In the second half, two E.M. Delafield novels

How do we choose our reading, and E.M. Delafield – welcome to episode 97!


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In the first half of the episode, we debate whether to read spontaneously or plan our reading. In the second half, two E.M. Delafield novels vie against each other: Tension, recently reprinted in the British Library Women Writers series, and Thank Heaven Fasting.


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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:


Consequences by E.M. Delafield

The Way Things Are by E.M. Delafield

The Solange stories by F Tennyson Jesse

Mrs Alfred Sidgwick

The Hills Sleep On by Joanna Cannan

A Lion, A Mouse, and a Motor-Car by Dorothea Townshend

The Glass Wall by E.M. Delafield

Love Has No Resurrection by E.M. Delafield

The Gap of Time of Jeanette Winterson

The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Barbara Kingsolver

Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell

Love at All Ages by Angela Thirkell

The Duke’s Daughter by Angela Thirkell

Festival at Farbridge by J.B. Priestley

The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart

P.D. James

The Shelf by Phyllis Rose

Sun City by Tove Jansson

Agatha Christie

Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh

Georges Simenon

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Where There’s Love, There’s Hate by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Mary Webb

Faster! Faster! by E.M. Delafield

The War Workers by E.M. Delafield

The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby

Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell