Sylvia Townsend Warner's debut novel 'Lolly Willowes' is the main book under discussion in this episode. It's nominated by journalist, author & playwright Samantha Ellis, and she discusses witchcraft, spinsters and the Chilterns with John, Andy and Mathew. Also touched on: epic poetry on Dartmoor in the rain, and J.B. Priestley's influence on David Bowie.

Books Mentioned:

Andy Miller - The Year of reading Dangerously
Samantha Ellis - How to be a Heroine
Martin Shaw - Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet Black Branch of Language
Charles A Foster - Being a Beast
Thomas Thwaites - Goatman: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human
John Yorke - Into the Woods
Spike Milligan - Puckoon
J. B. Priestley - English Journey
Jessica Mitford - The American Way of Death
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes, Mr Fortune’s Maggot, The True Heart, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them
George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier
Paul Theroux - The Kingdom by the Sea
Shaun Usher - Lists of Note
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan

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