Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books LoLT: Tips for Reading Long Novels and Two Great Books
In this episode, we get excited about two new books: The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood and Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross. Then Mel shares her reading and loving doorstopper novels of 500+ pages.
Links
- The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood
- The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood
- Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II by Adrian Tinniswood
- Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross
- Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
- Adrian Tinniswood’s website
- Podcast: History Extra — The Golden Age of the Country House
- The Wheel of Fortune by Susan Howatch
Mel’s Favorite Doorstopper Novels
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- REAMDE by Neal Stephenson
- The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (translated by Ruth Martin & Charlotte Collins)
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth - reviewed on our Hollywood podcast
- Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel - reviewed on our London podcast
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - reviewed on our Library podcast
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - reviewed on our Cemetery podcast
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - reviewed on our Library podcast
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Fairy Tale by Stephen King
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