Writer, academic and contributing editor of Bookanista Lucy Scholes joins Andy, John and Mathew on the pod to talk The Vet's Daughter, the extraordinary novel of an extraordinary girl in late Victorian South London. Also, how some books just shouldn't be turned into musicals, and the best name for a dog ever.

Books Mentioned:

• Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

• Barbara Comyns - The Vet’s Daughter, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths, Sisters by a River, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, Out of The Red Into the Blue, The Skin Chairs, Birds in Tiny Cages, Touch of Mistletoe

• Lucy Scholes - Barbara Comyns: A Writer Lost in Time

• Shelagh Delaney - Sweetly Sings the Donkey

• Barry Hines - First Signs, A Kestrel For a Knave, The Game Keeper

• Halldor Laxness - Salka Valka

• Joseph Heller - Something Happened, Catch 22

• Ian McGuire - The North Water

• Shirley Barrett - Rush Oh!

• Laurent Binet - HHhH

• Barry Unsworth - Sacred Hunger

Other Links:

• Guardian review

• Lolly Willowes