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Tea or Books?

Simon and Rachel

Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.

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Tea or Books? #36: audiobooks (yes or no?) and two...

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2017/04/03

Ursula Orange, Elizabeth Fair, and audiobooks – it’s fair to say that people probably won’t know that much about the authors today, but they are both among the Furrowed Middlebrow reprint series published by Dean Street Press. Any fan of

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Tea or Books? #35: do we want to meet our favourite...

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2017/03/14

May Sarton and F.M. Mayor go up against each other, and we chat about whether or not we want to meet our favourite authors (living or dead!) Our episodes are getting a little more sporadic as we’re doing more

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Tea or Books? #34: novels based on real life: yes or...

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2017/02/19

E M Delafield, F Tennyson Jesse, and novels about real people – that’s what’s on the menu for episode 34. It’s very nice to have Rachel back (hi Rachel!) and we’ve both been doing homework for this episode –

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Tea or Books? #33: a Thomas twins crossover special!

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2017/01/30

C.S. Lewis, Meryl Streep, and Alfred Hitchcock! What do they have in common? They all appear in this special crossover episode – where Tea or Books? meets my brother’s podcast The C of Z of Movies. That’s right –

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Tea or Books? #32: jobs in books, and Atonement vs On...

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2017/01/17

Ian McEwan helps us get dangerously modern in our latest ‘Tea or Books?’ episode, as we chat about Atonement and On Chesil Beach (along with a whole bunch of his other books) – while, in the first half, we discuss whether or

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Tea or Books? #31: lists, yes or no? and The...

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2017/01/02

Happy new year! Rachel and I are back from a bit of a podcast break, and raring to go for the New Year. In this episode, we look at two novels by R.C. Sherriff, both published by Persephone, and

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Tea or Books? #30: artists vs musicians, and The...

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2016/12/12

Muriel Spark, artists, and musicians in our final episode of 2016 – it was a fun one to record. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year, and fingers crossed for a wonderful 2017

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Tea or Books? #29: short stories (yes or no?) and...

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2016/11/28

Two more Persephones in this episode – Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton and Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan – along with a discussion of short stories: which writers we like and don’t like, and whether or not we’d race

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Tea or Books? #28: scary vs not scary, and The...

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2016/11/10

Two Persephone titles will help solace us in these bizarre post-election days. We’ve been away for a while because I lost my voice – sorry! – but Rachel (Book Snob) and I are back, talking about The Victorian Chaise-Longue by

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Tea or Books? #27: cats vs dogs in literature, and...

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2016/10/18

Cats! Dogs! Noel Coward! A.A. Milne! I always start off these descriptions with exclamation marks, but seldom has it been more justified… In this episode, we pit literary cats against literary dogs, and almost instantly regret it (while also

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Tea or Books? #26: give up vs soldier on, and Matilda...

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2016/09/27

Roald Dahl, Michelle Magorian, and whether or not to give up on books – I’m back from holiday, and Rachel and I have a lovely new (…long) episode of Tea or Books? In our first half, we discuss whether

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Tea or Books? #25: to adapt or not to adapt, and To...

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2016/09/12

Elizabeth Bowen and novels adapted into films – though not in conjunction… In the first half of this podcast, we discuss novels adapted into films – and whether or not we would like our favourite novels to be adapted

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Tea or Books? #24: careful or manhandle, and The...

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2016/08/25

I have forced two topics on Rachel – firstly, are you careful with books, or do you manhandle them? (It will all make sense in context.) And then two books that were lynch pins of my doctoral thesis – The

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Tea or Books? #23: keep or cull, and They Came Like...

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2016/08/03

Two William Maxwell novels go up against each other in this episode – but not before we’ve got to the heart of the emotional issue of whether to keep books or cull books. (Obviously we don’t want to cull

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Tea or Books? #22: set in the time vs written in the...

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2016/07/18

Historical fiction and books-about-books are the themes for episode 22 of Tea or Books? – and we have a LOT to say on these topics. And we hope you do too! Let us know your thoughts for each category. And

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Tea or Books? #21: children narrators vs adult...

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2016/07/06

Shakespeare! That’s right, we’re getting very classy and/or GCSE English in our discussion of his comedies and tragedies – following a fairly haphazard chat about child narrators vs adult narrators. This is what happens when Rachel only tells me

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Tea or Books? #20: first vs third person and Cider...

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2016/06/21

Happy birthday us! We actually passed our birthday by a couple of weeks, but this is the first podcast after the big day. Can you believe it’s been a whole year? And it might be our longest episode yet.

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Tea or Books? #19: summer vs winter and The Night...

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2016/06/06

Sarah Waters and the seasons – how better to celebrate the sunny weather we’ve been having recently? In episode 19 we look at summer and winter in books (and get tangled in what that could mean) and then talk

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Tea or Books? #18: titles: fancy or simple? and...

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2016/05/23

Agatha Christie and curious titles come together in perhaps my favourite episode of the podcast yet. And also the first one where we’re both in our 30s, guys. And also one of our most bizarre. In the first half, we look at

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Tea or Books? #17: diaries vs letters and The...

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2016/05/12

Letters! Diaries! Oscar Wilde! We’ve got it all – well, those three things – in episode 17 of Tea or Books?, which has taken a bit of time to arrive, for which I apologise. But we are as rambling

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