Nov 2, 2017
Claire speaks to Elizabeth Day, author of the literary thriller The Party, about her time at Cambridge, how her journalism career trained her to be a novelist, and our picks for the Man Booker Prize.
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Party, by Elizabeth Day
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
Underworld, by Don DeLillo
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P, by Adelle Waldman
Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Gnomon, by Nick Harkaway
History of Wolves, by Emily Fridlund
Elmet, by Fiona Mozley
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy
The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud
Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Invitation To The Waltz, by Rosamond Lehmann
The Weather In The Streets, by Rosamond Lehmann
Love & Fame, by Susie Boyt
Autumn, by Ali Smith
Winter, by Ali Smith
Mythos, by Stephen Fry
An Almost Perfect Christmas, by Nina Stibbe
Love, Nina, by Nina Stibbe
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