52. Shirley Jackson - We Have always lived in the castle
For our annual Halloween episode John and Andy are joined on the Backlisted podcast by Fiona Wilson and Andrew Male to discuss Shirley Jackson's final novel We Have Always Lived In The Castle, originally published in 1962. In this show's 'What We Have Been Reading' slot John discusses True Ghost Stories of Our Own Time by Vivienne Rae-Ellis, while Andy puts forward Going On The Turn, the third instalment of Danny Baker's memoirs.
Books Mentioned:
Anthony Powell - Books Do Furnish a Room
Michael Frayn - The Tin Men
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Vivienne Rae-Ellis - True Ghost Stories of Our Own Time
Danny Baker - Going on the turn, Going to Sea in a Sieve, Going Off Alarming
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery,
Sylvia Townsend Warner- Lolly Willowes
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