This week, to mix things up a little, it’s our annual round-up of books, old and new, you might enjoy over the summer. John, Andy and Backlisted’s producer Nicky discuss: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker (W&N Essentials); Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale (Daunt Books); The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson); Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry (Faber); A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo (Canongate); and The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
The Inheritors by William Golding
The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
Frost in May by Antonia White
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
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