20 - Nineteen-Hundred (Alessandro Baricco)
Danny Boodman TD Lemon Nineteen-Hundred was born on a ship and on a ship he died. In between, he didn't play music, he played something else. And if you asked him what he thought about while he was pl...
29 Juni 20203min
19 - Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
In 1966, Gregory Rabassa won the first National Book Award to recognise the work of a translator for his English-language edition of Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar was so pleased with Rabassa's translation...
18 Juni 202023min
18 - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
Infectively ridiculous, inevitably imaginative and charmingly irreverent Pippi is the kind of friend who lies all the time, but is also too funny to just drop. AND she's really, really, really strong....
16 Juni 202015min
17 - Cady's Life (Anne Frank)
As well as her diary, Anne Frank wrote so much more when she was hiding with her family in what she called "The Secret Annex". She wrote tales, rewrote paragraphs and sentences from other books, and s...
9 Juni 20205min
16 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
It all starts with Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honour and favourite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna, getting bored. 587,287 words later, you get The Greatest Russian Novel of All Times. We give you ...
1 Juni 202014min
15 - The Paul Street Boys (Ferenc Molnár, read by George Szirtes)
A Hungarian youth classic novel of war and friendship, here is an excerpt from chapter 1, read by a most illustrious guest: British/Hungarian poet and literary translator George Szirtes.
24 Maj 20209min
14 - The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
A stranger comes to town. Only, the town is Moscow and the stranger is the Devil. Oh, and there's a woman and a giant cat.
20 Maj 202030min
