Rachel Cooke, Observer writer, New Statesman TV critic and author joins John, Andy & Mathew 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.

Books Mentioned:

Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Rachel Cooke - Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
David Seabrook - All the Devils Are Here, Jack of Jumps
May Sinclair - Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Harold Bloom - The Anxiety of Influence
Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
Halldór Laxness - Independent People, Fish Can sing
W. H. Auden - Letters From Iceland
Sarah Moss - Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
Sjón - The Blue Fox
Roger Lewis - The Man who was Private Widdle
Michael dobbs - House of Cards
Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Death’s Jest-Book
James Hogg - Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Donald Sinden - A Touch of the Memoirs
John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Jonathan Rendall - This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own

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