Rachel Cooke, Observer writer, New Statesman TV critic and author joined John, Andy and former host Mathew way back in 2016 to discuss All The Devils Are Here, the astounding travelogue through Kent and the depths of human behaviour from David Seabrook. Plus, the drinking habits of Carry On stars, and what to read in Iceland.
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07'44 - Dalva by Jim Harrison
12'48 - Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair
22'10 - All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook
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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
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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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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
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