#223 - How to write two novels at the same time, with Charles Dickens
An episode from 1/10/23: Tonight we take a peek into the creative life of Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Through a handful of readings from Claire Tomalin’s biography of Dickens, we see how he was able to juggle, for almost a year, the writing of two novels for simultaneous serial publication. Then...
Martin Stephen and Augustus Casely-Hayford
Harriett Gilbert and her guests, historian, Gus Casely-Hayford and educationalist Martin Stephen discuss books by Aminatta Forna, Dan Vyleta and Thomas Hardy.
Gus chooses a fictional account of the fall-out from the conflict in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna's "The Memory of Love", which has a natu...
Daily: Into The Time Machine – Biographer Claire Tomalin on H. G. Wells
With The War of The Worlds, H. G. Wells catapulted to international literary success. But how did his adolescence shape the father of science fiction? Journalist and biographer Claire Tomalin talks to Dorian Lynskey about her latest book, The Young H. G. Wells, the author’s complicated love affai...
Cassie and Kate on A J Finn's The Woman in the Window, Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God, forty years of the Australian Book Review and Claire Tomalin's A Life of My Own
Kate and Cassie discuss A J Finn's bestselling thriller The Woman in the Window, and are also joined by novelist Catherine McKinnon to talk Louise Erdrich's chilling and funny dystopian Future Home of the Living God, by editor Peter Rose to talk forty years of fiction and the Australian Book Revi...
Quartet Audiobook by Leah Broad
Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: QuartetSubtitle: How Four Women Changed the Musical WorldCategories: Biography, Celebrity, Female Protagonist, MusicAuthor: Leah BroadNarrator: Leah BroadPublisher: Faber & FaberRelease date: 03-09-2023Language: EnglishSummary:...
Sense and Sensibility: What to Know Before the Movie
Sense and Sensibility: What to Know Before You See the 2026 Movie
Sense and Sensibility, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles, opens in theaters October 16. Before you go, find out what Jane Austen’s first novel was really about.
In this episode of the Brit Lit Book Club, Vanessa walks...
