Author and critic Alex Preston and Rachael Kerr, Unbound's Editor at large, join John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss Charles Sprawson's ground breaking 'Haunts Of The Black Masseur', together with all things aquatic. The subtitle of the book is 'The Swimmer As Hero' and Sprawson's book tells the tale of literary swimmers from Byron to Cheever. Also discussed; Outskirts by John Grindrod and Bleaker House by Nell Stevens.

Books Mentioned:

Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Alex Preston - The Bleeding City, The Revelations, In Love and War, As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Charles Sprawson - Haunts of the Black Masseur
John Grindrod - Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt, Concretopia
Muriel Spark - Memento Mori
Shena Mackay - Redhill Rococo
Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black
Nell Stevens - Bleaker House
Phyllis Richardson - House of Fiction
Philip Hoare - Risingtidefallingstar
Jenny Landreth - Swell
W. N. P. Barbellion - The Journal of the Disappointed Man
Edmund Gosse - Father and Son
John Cheever - The Swimmer

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