Mark Sutton

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695 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2018 last heard Jul 2020

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The Bookshelf · On T C Boyle's Outside Looking In, Don Winslow's The Border and Simon Cleary's The War Artist · 26 Apr 2019 podcast

And it's a bit like Game of Thrones where people are saying, I hope he finishes it before, you know, he...

shuffles off this mortal coil because we want to find out what happened.

But I've since read two more volumes since I was last on the bookshelf, and I'm about to start the fourth.

And it is truly the finest bit of historical writing I've read in my life.

I love history as well as fiction, but it's an absolutely fascinating portrayal of, I think, essentially...

how power in America affects the lives of every single person in society and how the individual personalities of someone like Lyndon Johnson, who's a very, very flawed individual, can make great change and how, oddly, the pathways of history sometimes align in ways.

So, obviously, Lyndon Johnson himself...

probably was not passionate about civil rights, but his needs aligned with the civil rights movement in a very interesting historical way that Caro teases out and allows this great historical change and national change in America to happen in spite of the flaws of President Johnson.

And I think it's just a great book.

So that's Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

See you later.

The Bookshelf · On Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Sarah Perry's Melmoth and Kristina Olsson's own bookshelf · 19 Oct 2018 podcast

And I'm Cassie McCullough.

And congratulations to Irish writer Anna Burns, who won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Milkman, which Kate, you put in my hands this week.

Today, though, Christina Olsen, whose novel Shell fictionalises the making of the Sydney Opera House.

We reviewed that last week, but you'll hear more about it from her and also the bookshelf that made her.

Is it nice?

Wow, that would be quite a read.

Thanks, Louise, for that.

So if you want to get in contact with us, we love it.

We always read it and sometimes we cry, but mostly we just love it.

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