Backlisted

The literary podcast presented by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller. For show notes visit backlisted.fm and get an extra two shows a month by supporting the pod at patreon.com/backlisted

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Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Episode Date: April 30, 2018

Professor Sarah Churchwell introduces Andy and John to the phenomenal Corregidora by Gayl Jones, a book steeped in the blues and the American slavery...

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The Lowlife by Alexander Baron

Episode Date: April 15, 2018

John and Andy are at the dogs this week, discussing the 1963 cult novel The Lowlife by Alexander Baron. They are joined by London enthusiast Peter Wat...

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The Town House by Norah Lofts

Episode Date: March 19, 2018

This week John and Andy are joined by journalist and author Lucy Mangan, whose new memoir of childhood reading Bookworm has just been published by Squ...

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Berg by Ann Quin

Episode Date: March 2, 2018

This week Andy and John are joined by Jennifer Hodgson, editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of British experimental writer Ann Quin's lost...

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Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

Episode Date: February 19, 2018

John and Andy welcome authors Chris Power and Erica Wagner to discuss the multiple interlocking stories in Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, including the...

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Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

Episode Date: January 28, 2018

Critic and editor of Boundless Arifa Akbar joins John and Andy to discuss Hilary Mantel's tale of mediums and malevolence in the M25 corridor, Beyond...

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Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Episode Date: January 22, 2018

Music producer, gallery owner and now novelist Tot Taylor joins John and Andy to discuss James Hilton's 1933 novel about an earthly paradise in the fa...

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Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

Episode Date: November 27, 2017

In a special edition recorded earlier this year live at the Durham Book Festival, John and Andy are joined by writers Adele Stripe and Ben Myers to di...

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Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

Episode Date: October 16, 2017

In a special live edition of Backlisted, recorded in front of an audience at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, John and Andy are joined by Mark Haddon,...

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Look At Me by Anita Brookner

Episode Date: September 17, 2017

In a long awaited episode John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by Una McCormack and Lucy Scholes to discuss Anita Brookner's third novel 'Look A...