The waiting is nearly over! Ahead of Backlisted Season 3 - and our tenth anniversary year - John, Andy and Nicky get together to chat about books, vintage vinyl, what they did on their holidays, but mostly books: Sarah Perry's novel Enlightenment, recently longlisted for the Booker Prize; The Haunted Wood, Sam Leith's fascinating new history of childhood reading; I Will Die in a Foreign Land, Kalani Pickhart's timely exploration of the roots of the war in Ukraine; and The Cooler (1974), a newly-republished thriller by George Markstein, co-creator of the classic 1960s television series The Prisoner (and available direct from plumeriapics.co.uk). Plus this episode contains details of the subjects of our next half dozen shows, so get in there quick before the library reservation queue snakes round the block and prices on the secondhand market go through the ceiling*. As Nicky says, this Locklisted-like episode of Backlisted is the recap before the new season begins in earnest next week. Be seeing you.

A metaphorical ceiling, not the ceiling of the library around which snakes a queue, which is also a metaphor of sorts. The point is, this one goes live to the world in three days from now and you have a head start**, dear listeners.

** A metaphorical head start.

Books mentioned
Sarah Perry - Enlightenment; The Essex Serpent
Sam Leith - The Haunted Wood
Kalani Pickhart - I Will Die in a Foreign Land
George Markstein - The Cooler
James Joyce - Ulysses
A.S. Byatt - Possession