In a long awaited episode of the Backlisted podcast John and Andy are joined by Una McCormack and Lucy Scholes to discuss Anita Brookner's third novel Look At Me (1982), a tale of intergalactic piracy in a far off star syste... No, not really.

The Cake And The Rain, Jimmy Webb's memoir of life in the 60's music industry, and We That Are Young a reworking of King Lear set in India by Preti Taneja, are the books John & Andy have been reading.

Books Mentioned:

• Anita Brookner - Look At Me, Hotel du Lac, Latecomers, A Start in Life, Providence, Family and Friends, A Friend from England, Falling Slowly, A Closed Eye, A Private View

• Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

• Jimmy Webb - The Cake and the Rain

• Preti Taneja - We That Are Young

• Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire

• Jane Austin - Mansfield Park

• Georges Simenon - Red Lights

• Georgette Heyer - Arabella

Other Links:

• Anglia Ruskin Centre

• MacArthur Park

• Boundless

• Brookner interview

• Lit Hub piece

• Tom Sabine