Even your favourite podcasts need to take a holiday... but hopefully this collection of Backlisted off cuts, tall tales, terrible name dropping and the occasional bit of literary chat will help tide you over until we return at the beginning of September.

Books Mentioned:

William Maxwell - So Long, See You Tomorrow
John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy of Dunces
J. G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
Erskine Childers - Riddle of the Sands
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Émile Zola-Thérèse Raquin
David Seabrook - All the Devils are Here
Vladimir Nobokov - The Gift, Lectures on Russian Literature
Martin Fitzgerald - Ruth and Martin's album club
Sir Roy Strong - The Roy Strong Diaries
Tom Baker - Who On Earth is Tom Baker?

Other Links:

Nabokov quotes
Peter Cushing song