Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Roadside Picnic, first published in 1972, is the best-known work of Russia’s most famous modern science fiction writers, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, together the authors of 26 novels and scores of shor...
4 Okt 20221h 13min
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell’s fourth novel and considered by many to be her best. It tells the story of Margaret Hale, a principled young middle-class woman from the rural South whose family ...
20 Sep 20221h 28min
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Authors Jay Griffiths and Geoff Dyer are our guests for a discussion of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard was only twenty-nine when her first prose book was published in 1974; it went onto win th...
6 Sep 20221h 12min
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
The second novel by by literary wunderkind, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods is probably the most challenging book we’ve yet featured on Backlisted. Usually described as a satire on American capitalism, i...
2 Aug 20221h 13min
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
It's sixty-five years since John Wyndham published The Midwich Cuckoos, the fourth in his hugely successful series of science fiction novels that began in 1951 with The Day of the Triffids. Many peopl...
19 Jul 20221h 20min
The Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux
Forty years ago the writer Paul Theroux hoisted his knapsack on his back and set off on a journey on foot around the coast of the United Kingdom; the effects of Thatcherism were being felt in earnest ...
5 Jul 20221h 17min
Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
Novelist Joanne Harris (Chocolat, A Narrow Door) is our guest for a celebration of Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) by Mervyn Peake, three novels which are often referred ...
21 Jun 20221h 14min
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Tessa Hadley (Free Love, Late in the Day) joins us for a discussion of The Death of the Heart (1938), the sixth novel by Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen; as you'll hear, Tessa has been reading an...
23 Mai 20221h 11min
