Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and Favourite Women Prize Winners

Nature writing and some favourite novels by prizewinning women – welcome to episode 98! As mentioned in the podcast – we’d love to hear your questions as we gear up for our hundredth episode. Just email [email protected], or put your

Nature writing and some favourite novels by prizewinning women – welcome to episode 98!

As mentioned in the podcast – we’d love to hear your questions as we gear up for our hundredth episode. Just email [email protected], or put your questions in the comments to this post.

In the first half of the episode, we decide whether or not we like nature writing. In the second half, we have postponed our discussion of The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby and Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell – instead, Rachel and I both pick three favourite books by women that have won prizes.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

National Provincial by Lettice Cooper

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

National Velvet by Enid Bagnold

Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Henry Longfellow

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

White Spines by Nicholas Royle

Quilt by Nicholas Royle

The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle

Love, Interrupted by Simon Thomas

The Warning Bell by Lynne Reid Banks

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

The Goshawk by T.H. White

The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott

The Pebbles on the Beach by Clarence Ellis

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May

Bleaker House by Nell Stevens

Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

John Moore

Adrian Bell

The Village by Marghanita Laski

Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski

The Village by Marghanita Laski

To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

Tory Heaven by Marghanita Laski

Love on the Supertax by Marghanita Laski

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Mother and Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge

Another Part of the Woods by Beryl Bainbridge

Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson