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OvercastA Compass Error by Sybil Bedford
A tense coming-of-age love story
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A Life by Elia Kazan
with biographer and critic John Lahr
Biography and Memoir
Nancy Mitford, Roger Lewis, Elizabeth Jane Howard, P.D. James and Jean Rhys.
Riddley Waker by Russel Hoban – Rerun
‘this is what literature is meant to be.’
Notes from Under the Floorboards by Fyodor Dostoevsky – Rerun
The 1864 novella that invented dystopian fiction. In an episode first published in November 2021, we are joined by authors Alex Christofi (Dostoevsky in Love) and Arifa Akbar (Consumed:...
Winter Reading 2025
Happy new year! We kick off 2025 – and Backlisted’s tenth anniversary year – with our traditional Winter Reading episode, in which Andy, John and Nicky recommend a selection...
Moby-Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville
Join the Backlisted crew as we navigate the swells and surges of Moby-Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville. That’s right, Moby Dick is a Christmas book! Andy, John...
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis
We are joined by the poet Katrina Porteous and the writer and editor Patrick Galbraith to discuss Norman Lewis’s account of the of the three summers he spent working...
The Moon’s a Balloon by David Niven
Rupert Everett joins us to discuss David Niven’s memoir The Moon’s a Balloon. This show represents the fulfilment of a long cherished ambition: to dedicate a whole Backlisted to a book...