Secret Life of Books

By George (Eliot) She's Done It! The road to Middlemarch

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

George Eliot’s Middlemarch is the Mount Everest of Victorian fiction. A book so brilliant and monumental that it’s taken us a year of planning to ...

A SLoB Christmas Cracker

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It won't come as a surprise to SLOB fans that the literary classics invented Christmas. But if you've got your finger on the buzzer and are already mo...

The Women Who Made Jane Austen

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that Jane Austen has a big birthday this week -- her 250th to be exact. Happy Birthday Jane!Over h...

Big Cat Theory: William Blake's The Tyger

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a cat-person or a tyger-person? William Blake was both. Find out why such a big fuss about "The Tyger," which never fails to show up in google...

Henry James 3: Turn of the Screw

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen King and Shirley Jackson agree that The Turn of the Screw is the GOAT of ghost-stories. It’s a gripping, excellently creepy potboiler about ...

Henry James 2: Colm Tóibín on Henry James

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the world's favorite novelists, on his own favorite novelist. Colm Toibin has written many beloved novels, for which he has won many prestigiou...

Henry James 1: The Portrait of a Lady

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many readers consider The Portrait of a Lady to be the greatest novel in English. But for some reason, James' fellow novelists loved to dump on him. N...

Greece Lightnin': My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SLoB is turning 1! To celebrate, Sophie and Jonty re-read one of their all time favorites, My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.My Family and...

American Horror 3: Salem's Lot by Stephen King

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Salem’s Lot (1975) is Stephen King’s second published novel, and many would say it's his best. It tells the story of a plague of vampires running ...

American Horror 2: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chocolate Mouse, anyone? Rosemary’s Baby was a smash hit on release - the best selling horror novel of the 1960s, eventually selling over 4 million ...

American Horror: The Haunting of Hill House

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who's afraid of American horror? Sophie and Jonty, for starters. To celebrate halloween, SLOB is taking a deep dive into three classics of the America...

Montaigne pt2: A Montaigne out of a mole hill (with Rowan Tomlinson)

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jonty and Sophie were separated by an ocean while Sophie and her family went back to New York and Jonty stayed in Sydney - so they made lemonade out o...

Montaigne pt1: Climb Every Montaigne (with Stephen Greenblatt)

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sophie talks to one of the world's leading literary scholars, who co-founded a whole branch of literary studies known as "The New Historicism," before...

SLoB's Four (literary) weddings and a funeral

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The label says what's in the tin: Secret Life of Books dives deep into weddings and funerals in literature, asking why they become iconic moments to h...

Wilkie Collins 2: The Moonstone

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins published yet another giant sensation, this time pioneering the detective novel and mystery/heist genre. It was pub...

BONUS: Jennifer Egan on the Woman in White

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our ongoing “That’s Classic!” series, we're joined by the wonderful Jennifer Egan to chat about the sensational thriller The Woman in...

Wilkie Collins 1: The Woman in White

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Woman in White was a sensation when it was serialised in Charles Dickens’ magazine All The Year Round in 1859 and 1860. It begins with an uncann...

SLOB Reads: The Sonnet with Paul Muldoon

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For several weeks we've been recording a subscribers-only mini series on the history of the sonnet in English. Sonnets are crowd-pleasers - short, som...

The Secret Life of Trains: how rail travel changed fiction - for ever

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the T...

BONUS: Writing Virginia Woolf's life (with Hermione Lee)

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this final episode in SLoB's series on Virginia Woolf, Jonty talks to literary biographer Hermione Lee whose Virginia Woolf (1996) is perhaps the m...

Virginia Woolf 5: The Waves

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We thought we’d be concluding our Virginia Woolf deep-dive with "A Room of One’s Own," but we’ve enjoyed this series so much we decided to exten...

Virginia Woolf 4: A Room Of One's Own

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thank God, my long toil at the women’s lecture is this moment ended. I am back from speaking at Girton, in floods of rain. Starved but valiant young...

Virginia Woolf 3: Orlando

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, a gender-defying historical romance, in 1927, when her intimate friend and lover Vita Sackville-West left London to join...

BONUS: Reading Mrs Dalloway (with Alexandra Schwartz)

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Throw that party. Go for it. It's worth it."In today’s Mrs. Dalloway special episode, Sophie talks to Alex Schwartz, writer, critic and co-host of ...

Virginia Woolf 2: To The Lighthouse

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

50 is the new 25!“To the Lighthouse” is Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece about summer holidays and the passage of time. It’s perhaps the greatest ...

BONUS: Virginia Woolf, the not-so-Common Reader (with Alexandra Harris)

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘Think of a book as a very dangerous and exciting game, which it takes two to play at.’ For Virginia Woolf, reading wasn’t a passive act. I...

Virginia Woolf 1: Mrs Dalloway

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not the Secret Life of Books, as we joyfully immerse ourselves in four of Woolf's greatest books to celebrate what is ...

Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Amis’ Money, Thomas Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero… These books are often cited as defining wor...

The Secret River with Kate Grenville

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This special episode on a great modern classic was recorded live at the Sydney Writers' Festival in 2025. Very few novels can genuinely claim to have ...

Keeping Up Appearances with the Pooters: The Diary of A Nobody

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a cheat. It's not a real published personal diary, but a satire on published diaries. It’s a fiction, but it’s a fiction that tell...

The Secret Life of Summer Holidays: sunburns, family arguments and holiday cottages in classic literature

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Not if it was the summer holiday that Jonty's family went on to Menorca when a stomach bug ripped through thei...

BONUS: Move Over Bridgerton: James Boswell's Big Romance

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A bonus episode to share the extraordinary detail and richness of the real-time, live-streamed account James Boswell gives us of his first love affair...

A Date With Signor Gonorrhea: James Boswell's London Journal 1762

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s London, 1763 - we're paying a visit to the most fashionable, literary, sexy, filthy, glamorous capital in the world. The 22 year old James...

Plague, fire and hanky-panky in Swinging 1660s London: Samuel Pepys' Diary

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to London in the swinging sixties. One man fights off a towering inferno, navigates a zombie apocalypse, and an invading fleet of evil foreign...

Breakfast with Jane Austen

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day -- especially for Jane Austen. On and off the page, Austen paid a lot of attention to the breakfast ta...

Oscar Wilde 4: Doing rhyme: The Ballad of Reading Gaol

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode - the last in our series on Oscar Wilde - we tell the story of the melodramatic, mediagenic, mad, melancholy end of Oscar Wilde's writ...

Life and love with MND: Lisa Genova's Every Note Played with Prof Dominic Rowe

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Published in 2018, Lisa Genova’s Every Note Played follows the experiences of renowned concert pianist Richard Evans from the moment he is diagnosed...

Oscar Wilde 3: "A Handbag?!" The Importance of Being Earnest

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Importance of Being Earnest, first performed in 1895 at the sumptuous St James' Theatre in London, was Wilde’s last, and without question his gr...

Happier with Henry Wotton: Gretchen Rubin on Aphorisms and the Importance of Being Oscar Wilde

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gretchen Rubin is one of America’s best known and best-loved writers on how to be happy. She published her evergreen classic The Happiness Project i...

Oscar Wilde 2: If Looks Could Kill: The Picture of Dorian Gray

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel, and it caused a sensation. It was used as evidence in Wilde’s trial for the crime of “gr...

Classic Books vs Trump: Jill Lepore on reading her way through the first 100 days

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jill Lepore is one of America’s most renowned intellectuals. She’s Professor not only of American History, but also of Law at Harvard University; ...

Oscar Wilde 1: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Few writers have blurred the boundaries between life and art quite so spectacularly as Oscar Wilde. In his writing, he challenged the moral standards ...

BONUS: More 'Rivals': Actor Katherine Parkinson on the joy of Jilly Cooper and playing Lizzie Vereker in the television adaptation

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hot on the heels of our Rivals episode, Sophie and Jonty are joined by the actor and writer Katherine Parkinson - one of the stars of the recent adapt...

Bollinger, Board Battles and Bonking Galore: Jilly Cooper's Rivals

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jilly Cooper’s Rivals (1988) is the ultimate bonkbuster - a story of professional rivalry in the Cotswold’s fast-set with lashings of sex thrown i...

The Epic of Gilgamesh with Robert Macfarlane

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest surviving works of literature - an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, stitched together from fragments goi...

The Tortured Poets Department: Emily Dickinson, the Transcendentalists and, yes, Taylor Swift

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Dickinson is probably the most famous female poet in the world. And yet – at least according to Dickinson mythology – her work could easily ...

BONUS: Secret Life of Democracy (Literature at the polls)

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Australia heads to the polls, Sophie and Jonty slap their democracy sausages on the bbq and take a tour of the greatest elections and electoral can...

Guns and (war of the) Roses. The irresistible rise of Shakespeare's Richard III

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard III is one of the OG villains of English literary history, the usurper king who killed his brother, nephews (the infamous “Princes in the To...

BONUS: The Disappearance of Agatha Christie

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On 3 December 1926, only a few months after the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (in book form), Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared, l...

Hercule Poirot, a Tunisian dagger and an evening of Mah Jong: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The three best-selling authors of all time are, in order, God, Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. Exact figures are hard to know, but the gulf between C...

Who watches the Watchmen?: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, wrote the Roman poet Juvenal two thousand years ago. And just in case your Latin isn’t up to scratch, we’ll transla...

SLoB's Secret Life of Pets

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Macavity to Samuel Johnson’s Hodge, Buck to Rochester’s Pilot, what is classic literature without its pets? One of the most affecting sc...

George Orwell 6: What's in Room 101? 1984 Part 2

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Shakespeare almost wrote: Orwell That Ends Well. While our six-part series on George Orwell comes to a triumphant end, Orwell’s life - alas - did...

George Orwell 5: Sex crime, anyone? 1984 pt1

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Newspeak, Big Brother, the Thought Police, Room 101, doublethink, sex crime, the Ministry of Truth. Few books have generated quite as many outlandish ...

George Orwell 4: Come on, Eileen! Anna Funder, Mrs Orwell and Wifedom

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

George Orwell is one of the most famous names in classic literature, thanks to his novels Animal Farm and 1984, both dystopian fables of worlds gone m...

George Orwell 3: Murder in the Barnyard: Animal Farm

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Animal Farm is George Orwell’s micro masterpiece, an animal fable that offers a devastating critique of Stalinist Russia and the rise of totalitaria...

World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Can poetry change the world? The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Together, Siegfried Sassoon’s The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918) are among the greatest examples of protest...

George Orwell 2: The Revolution SHOULD NOT be televised: Homage to Catalonia

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

War is boring; revolution is boring; politics is boring. That’s the message of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. But, somehow, Homage to Catalo...

World Poetry Day Double-Bill: Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III with Rachel Cohen

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Bishop is one of those poets who’s often referred to as a writer’s writer, but this doesn’t mean her poems are hard to read. On the co...

George Orwell 1: The Best Gap Yah, great food writing and Paris hotels: Down and Out in Paris and London

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the winter of 1927, George Orwell dropped his aitches, pulled on his distressed tailored trousers, and took the first of many trips to the underbel...

International Women's Day Bonus: Was Shakespeare a Woman? Jodi Picoult says yes!

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Legendary bestseller Jodi Picoult is also a graduate of the Princeton English Department, and this week she came back to teach class! Sophie recorded ...

Magnetic chemistry, social anxiety, and the in-laws from hell: Pride & Prejudice (aka Meet The Bennets)

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

By many reckonings, this is the most famous novel in English. It’s also the book Jane Austen described as her own “Darling Child.” As we head to...

Self-Help, dodgy marriages and the siren call of Australia: David Copperfield Part 2

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Part 2 of David Copperfield, we pick up David where we left him, sobbing at the door of Betsey Trotwood’s house in Dover. From this low, David’...

‘Umble beginnings, childhood neglect, and did Dickens steal from Charlotte Bronte: David Copperfield

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Copperfield is the name of an American illusionist, whose feats included levitating over the Grand Canyon, walking through the Great Wall of Chi...

BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 2

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In part 2 of SLoB's Valentine's special, more heroes and heroines from the world of classic books get the brutal Tinder treatment as Sophie and Jonty ...

Free love in Paris, male wrestling and murder: Giovanni's Room

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's Black History Month and Sophie and Jonty are bringing their analytical chops once again to the giant of 20th-century literature, James Baldwin.&n...

BONUS: SLoB's Secret Crushes and Clandestine Encounters pt 1

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's Valentine's Day and love is quite literally in the air as the Secret Life of Books beams, via a complex network of satellites and data banks, to ...

Shakespeare does 'Succession': Rory Stewart on King Lear

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Now, gods, stand up for bastards!” King Lear is the Mount Everest of Theatre - a sprawling masterpiece of political turmoil, personal betray...

Wizards, Hobbits and WWII: Dominic Sandbrook on The Lord of the Rings

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One ring to rule them allOne ring to…Yes, SLoB finally turns its Sauron-like eye on what is thought to be the second best-selling novel of all time ...

Love and Beauty Bonus: Geraldine Brooks picks Gilead as the great modern classic

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Pulitzer Prize winner, fan-favorite Geraldine Brooks first read Gilead on a packed flight and found herself clambering over passengers f...

Soldier Preachers, late-life love and Soapy the cat in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gilead, from 2004, by the American writer Marilynne Robinson, is a smash-hit novel about Calvinism, three generations of Congregationalist minister an...

Jane Austen goes to the dark side: social turmoil and scandalous texting in Sense and Sensibility

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you think Jane Austen is light and bright and sparkling, think again. In Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, Jane goes to the dark si...

Cannes, a white mess jacket, and the pure joy of P.G. Wodehouse's "Right Ho, Jeeves"

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Right Ho, Jeeves was the 34th novel by the British writer PG Wodehouse, written when he was - struggling writers take note - 52 years old. But you wou...

The Craft of Writing, the Booker Prize from Australia: Charlotte Wood on My Name is Lucy Barton

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton is a much-loved and perennially-read novel that has caught the attention of literally millions of readers ...

Literature's great parties: launch 2025 in style with Lady Macbeth, Count Dracula and the Mad Hatter

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To round out 2024, SLoB is hosting the world’s shortest New Year’s Eve party, in which we rank literary history’s most under-the-radar ragers. C...

Did Dickens Change the Face of Christmas Forever? Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the First Ever Turkey

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From the “man who invented Christmas,” this is the ultimate Christmas fable. Everyone’s heard of Scrooge, and many could quote his “Bah! Humbu...

The Albatross Curse, Bad Weddings and Lots of Opium: Rime of the Ancient Mariner

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - the name of a classic song by Iron Maiden AND a decent-ish poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It’s the latter that’...

Victorian dresses, teenage passions and fiction’s scariest picnic: Picnic at Hanging Rock

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sophie and Jonty find themselves a few sandwiches short of a picnic this week when they take on their first Australian classic book, the legendary “...

Please Sir, may we have some more? Oliver Twist, sex work and criminal underclasses in Victorian London

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s Twist Again! Not the dance, of course, but Charles Dickens’ incendiary second novel, which he began writing at the tender age of 24. With Ol...

The world's most famous classicist on the world's most famous classic: Mary Beard and The Odyssey

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Odyssey - where stories began. Probably written down around 7th century BC - give or take a few centuries either way - by somebody or somebodies w...

Bonus Live Ep: hosts' secrets revealed and the classics stripped bare!

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Sophie and Jonty bare all in a bonus SLoB live ep! After months of rummaging through the dirty laundry of the great writers, it is only fair ...

Jane Austen does gothic horror with insta-ready clothes and great interiors: Northanger Abbey

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Henry Tilney: is he yet another of Jane Austen’s Bad Men, or the stealth MVP with his interest in dress fabrics and interior decorating? Northanger ...

James: National Book Award global hit; a Huck Finn rewrite the world needed; plot twists you'll never guess

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It took 140 years for someone to write back to Mark Twain’s brilliant but troubling masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Now the celebrat...

Huckleberry Finn: but wait, maybe THIS is the great American novel?

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What makes a trip down the Mississippi river so famous - and so notorious? Why did it need to be rewritten in the 2024 novel James by Percival Everett...

Hamnet: sexy witches replace skulls and soliloquies

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder what Shakespeare got up to in the bedroom? Well, whether you do or not, you’ll find out - along with many other things - in this episode...

Hamlet: Shakespeare's secret double or pain in neck?

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hamlet is jammed with famous quotes like “to be or not to be,” “something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” “time is out of joint,” “t...

Midsummer Nights Dream: are true love and sexual attraction magic tricks?

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” It certainly did not in Shakespeare’s psychedelic fantasy about cross-dressing, polyamory, spea...

Go Tell It On The Mountain: growing up Black, poor and gay in 1930s New York

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Go Tell It On The Mountain is one of the great incendiary debuts of the 20th Century. Published in 1953, James Baldwin’s autobiographical novel foll...

The Great Gatsby: is this THE great American novel?

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few novels capture a moment and place in time as The Great Gatsby. F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece captures a generation determined to live an...

To Kill a Mockingbird: racism, gun violence and coming of age in the 1930s South

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Within a year of its publication in 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird sold 2.5 million copies and has remained a much-loved classic by adults...

Wolf Hall: is this the best historical novel ever written?

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello Thomas Cromwell. And Hello Lev Grossman, best-selling author of The Magicians trilogy, the Silver Arrow children’s books, and now The Bright S...

Dracula: vampires even weirder than you think. And they may have started WWI

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty-first century vampires are the brooding, sparkly anti-heroes of Twilight and Ann Rice— all pointy teeth and hair-product. But they used to be...

Frankenstein: the ultimate monster; the first A.I story; Mary Shelly's multi-generational grief

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Frankenstein is English literature’s great myth about Artificial Intelligence, 200 years before A.I. existed. But the world’s most famous monster ...

Wuthering Heights: passionate love affairs and dysfunctional families go together

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A ghostly face in the dark, a child’s hand through the window, a doleful cry: “I’d lost my way on the moor! - I’ve been a waif for twenty year...

Wide Sargasso Sea 2: bohemianism, madess and celebrity back in England

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It should have taken a year. It took thirty. In writing Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys endured several mental breakdowns, was arrested numerous times fo...

Wide Sargasso Sea 1: tropical gothic in the West Indies and Jane Eyre disrupted

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966, is a bold riposte to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, humanising the mad woman in Mr Rochester’s a...

Jane Eyre 2: the Brontes' real lives are even wilder than their fiction

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Charlotte Bronte arrived in Brussels at the age of 26 to attend finishing school, she had no idea she would fall desperately in love with the dir...

Jane Eyre 1: passion, madness, gaslighting and bad hair days

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What on earth was going on in the parlour of Haworth Parsonage in the Yorkshire Moors that caused three sisters to write three of the greatest novels ...

Gulliver's Travels Part 2

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we learned in episode one, Gulliver’s Travels is the gloriously unhinged invention of the dirty-minded genius Jonathan Swift, who was also the gr...

Gulliver's Travels Part 1

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most popular books of all time, but it’s no mere child’s tale. It’s the GOAT of political satires – mad, di...