7. Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire
Author and playwright Alice Jolly joins the Backlisted crew to discuss The Great Fire by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. Also, AA Gill and Spike Milligan have been Read This Week, and why it might be too late to start listening to jazz in your 50's.
Books Mentioned:
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
Alice Jolly - Dead Babies and Seaside Towns
Shirley Hazzard - The Great Fire, Greene on Capri, The Transit of Venus, The Evening of the Holiday, The Bay of Noon, We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
Spike Milligan - Puckoon, The Looney: An Irish Fantasy
Roger Lewis - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
A. A. Gill - Pour Me: A Life
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Nigel Balchin - The Small Back Room
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