Journalist, broadcaster and former editrice of The Erotic Review Rowan Pelling joins John, Andy and Mathew on the show to explain her love of Nigel Balchin's novel of the London Blitz, Darkness Falls From The Air.

Books Mentioned:

• Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

• Nigel Balchin - Darkness Falls From the Air, Small Back Room, Mine Own Executioner, Lord I Was Afraid, Kings of Infinite Space, A Way Through the Wood

• Rowan Pelling - The Erotic Review Bedside Companion

• E. M. Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

• George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

• Erica Wagner - First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner

• Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Owl Service, Red Shift, Stone Book Quartet

• Graham Greene - The End of the Affair, The Ministry of Fear

• Clive James - The Effective Intelligence of Nigel Balchin

Other Links:

• Diary of a Provincial Lady BBC Radio 4

• Owl Service TV adaptation

• The Singer Not The Song

• Cleopatra

• The Man Who Never Was

• Just William