Cassie McCullagh
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5,048 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard 11 Sep
Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His books include Brooklyn and the follow-up, Long Island, and The Magician, which was a reimagination of the life of Thomas Mann, the great German writer.
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But he also lived and wrote about
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Spain when he was younger, and this novel returns to the Pyrenees, where a new bridge will connect a village to the
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Yes, one to put on your list.
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John Boyne's The Weight of Angels, another Irish writer, The Heart's Invisible Furies may be um one of his most famous.
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This one is an alternative life of Oscar Wilde.
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What would have happened if he hadn't pursued that libel case that was what destroyed him in the end?
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Dwight Garner writing in the New York Times saying he thinks it's the book of the decade.
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All
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well it's quite a list and it goes on there will be many books coming our way between now and Christmas time.
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So make sure you keep a list of the ones that you think you might like.
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Yes, she is a nature columnist actually, Tom, for the Times of London.
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Oh right and yeah, and she's also written three novels previously to this new one, which is called The Given World.
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And when Kate and I reviewed her last one in 2018, Kate, long time um between novels, we loved it so much that she actually
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got in contact, remember, and thanked us for our comments.
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Yeah, and it was a very interesting exercise in a couple of things.
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It was telling the story of a small town in rural England after World War One, before World War Two.
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the hint of fascism was reaching this tiny town, but it also was just an old place which still had old great grandparents and the old ways still alive.
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