Show Notes
Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Abdulrazak Gurnah's 2017 novel Gravel Heart and chat about their recent reading. For our next episode, we will discuss Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Read along with us if you like! Books mentioned: Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah The works of Joseph Conrad (Marlow narration in Lord Jim, Chance, Heart of Darkness) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Another Country by James Baldwin Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk Pilgrimage (13 novels) by Dorothy Richardson Night Train by A. L Snijder, translated by Lydia Davis The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner Visit us online at onebrightbook.com. Browse our bookshelves at Bookshop.org. Comments? Write us at onebrightmail at gmail Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca writes a newsletter at https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen. You can find more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
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