Angel by Elizabeth Taylor

08.07.2025 • 01:14:16

Angel (1957) by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor, is the subject of this special episode - and, as you'll hear, the next episode of Locklisted too....

The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

24.06.2025 • 01:16:13

Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's ...

Summer books 2025

09.06.2025 • 01:10:31

Books we think you might enjoy on a plane, by the pool or in the park. Andy, Nicky and our old friend Una McCormack discuss the following fantastic be...

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend

26.05.2025 • 01:15:50

The wonderful Nina Stibbe, award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation. When it was first p...

The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir

12.05.2025 • 01:11:44

To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin, whose previous books include Flâneuse: W...

Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

28.04.2025 • 01:06:43

Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time, joins John and Andy for a tour of Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, the sixteenth-cent...

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

07.04.2025 • 01:12:26

“A masterpiece I don’t fully understand—and don’t need to.” This week’s book is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, a bold, baffling, and darkly funny n...

What Remains by Hannah Arendt

25.03.2025 • 01:16:27

Elif Shafak and Lyndsey Stonebridge join John and Andy for a discussion of the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the historian and philosopher whose boo...

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

11.03.2025 • 01:14:42

Sybille Bedford's A Compass Error (1968) is a classic coming-of-age novel, a love story, a family saga and a study in psychological suspense rolled in...

A Life by Elia Kazan

25.02.2025 • 01:15:10

We explore Elia Kazan's memoir A Life (1988) with veteran biographer and critic John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion, Prick Up Your Ears: The...