Join Amanda and Joseph as they set out to excavate Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s latest historical novel and family drama which is set in 1860s Ireland, a decade after the Great Famine. Plus, as always they chat about what they've been reading recently and what they hope to pick up next.
Bookish News
Children’s Booker Prize
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frank_cottrellboyce
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Beast in View by Maragert Millar
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
@herrealtake
Recent Reads
The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet @lyse.doucet
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series by Juno Dawson @junodawson
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears
Selected Books of Maggie O’Farrell @maggieofarrellofficial
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Instructions for a Heatwave
This Must Be the Place
Hamnet
The Marriage Portrait
Land
What We’re Reading Next
The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan @theodysseymovie
Crossing The Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson
I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder
Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio
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