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#148: Is There A Right Time To Read A Book? and The Dutch House vs The Party

30 Mar 2026

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Ann Patchett, Tessa Hadley, and finding the right time to read a book – welcome to episode 149! In the first half, we answer the question: is th...

#147: Quality vs Quantity and Two Books About Artists

28 Feb 2026

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Douglas Bruton, Carolyn Trant, and quality vs quantity – welcome to episode 147 or Tea or Books?! In the first half, we discuss quality vs quant...

#146: Our Top 10 Books of 2025

17 Jan 2026

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Our favourite reads of the year! Welcome to episode 146. We turn the whole episode over to our run-down of our ten favourite books from a year in read...

#145: Younger vs Older Authors and Rhine Journey vs Fenny

16 Dec 2025

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Ann Schlee! Lettice Cooper! Authors! Welcome to episode 145 of Tea or Books? In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether we prefer younger a...

#144: Simple vs Ornate Style, and Sylvia Plath vs Janet Malcolm

25 Nov 2025

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Sylvia Plath, Janet Malcolm and our thoughts on writing style – welcome to episode 144! In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether we...

#143 : Do We Avoid Books That Will Upset Us? and Agatha Christie vs Ethel Lina White

31 Oct 2025

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Agatha Christie, Ethel Lina White, and sad books – welcome to episode 143! In the first half, we use Geraldine’s suggestion – do we ...

#142: Can We Like A Character Who Makes Stupid Decisions? and Other People vs A Five Year Sentence

27 Sep 2025

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Celia Dale! Bernice Rubens! Stupidity! Welcome to episode 142 of Tea or Books? In the first half of the episode, we ask if we can like characters in n...

#141: Do We Care About Weather in Novels? and Crooked Cross vs The Spring Begins

20 Aug 2025

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Sally Carson, Katherine Dunning, and the weather – welcome to episode 141! In the first half, Rachel and I discuss significant weather scenes in...

#140: Our 10 Favourite Books from 10 Years

21 Jul 2025

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It’s time for our favourite 10 books from 10 years of ‘Tea or Books?’! Rachel and I have looked through the books we read for the fi...

#139: 10th anniversary special! O Caledonia vs The Sundial, and celebrating 10 years

28 Jun 2025

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Shirley Jackson, Elspeth Barker, and your emails – welcome to episode 139 of Tea or Books?! Can you believe we’ve been going for ten years...

Help us celebrate 10 years of Tea or Books?!

26 May 2025

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A super quick mini-episode – well, not really an episode – asking for your contributions to the next episode of ‘Tea or Books?&#8217...

#138: Do We Care About Authors’ Personal Lives? and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne vs The Beautiful Visit

11 May 2025

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, Brian Moore, and authors’ personal lives – welcome to episode 138! In the first half of the episode, we do a questi...

#137: Resolved or Unresolved Endings? and Perfection vs Catherine Carter

04 Apr 2025

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Resolved endings, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Vincenzo Latronico – welcome to episode 137 of Tea or Books?! In the first half of the episode, we ta...

#136: Does Reading Make Us Better People? and And Then There Were None vs The Invisible Host

11 Mar 2025

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Agatha Christie, Gwen Bristow, Bruce Manning and reading morality – welcome to episode 136 of Tea or Books?! In the first half of this episode, ...

#135: Can Literary Fiction Be A Comfort Read? and Enter Ghost vs Lady Living Alone

06 Feb 2025

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Isabella Hammad, Norah Lofts, comfort reads – welcome to episode 135!   In the first half, we discuss whether or not literary fiction can b...

#134: Our Top 10 Books of 2024

01 Jan 2025

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Happy new year! In episode 134, Rachel and I share our favourite books reads in 2024 – counting down from ten to one. And we each pick one of th...

#133: Do We Have Reading Rules? and Two Willa Cather Novels

13 Dec 2024

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Willa Cather and reading rules – welcome to episode 133 of ‘Tea or Books?’! In the first half, we discuss reading rules – when...

#132: Interview: Edward Carey on Edith Holler

24 Oct 2024

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Edward Carey joins us to discuss his latest novel, Edith Holler. Welcome to episode 132! Rachel and I both love Edward Carey’s novels, so it was...

#131: Do We Read Deeply or Shallowly? and One Year’s Time vs Which Way?

04 Oct 2024

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Angela Milne, Theodora Benson, and reading deeply – welcome to episode 131 of Tea or Books?! In the first half of the episode, we discuss a top...

#130: Do Books Need Romance? and The Ladies’ Paradise vs Babbacombe’s

24 Aug 2024

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Emile Zola, Noel Streatfeild, and romantic books – welcome to Tea or Books? episode 130! In the first half of this episode, we do a topic sugges...

Tea or Books? #129: Authors Who Wrote Too Much vs Not Enough and A Room of One’s Own vs A Bookshop of One’s Own

14 Jul 2024

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Virginia Woolf, Jane Cholmeley, and authors who wrote too much or not enough – welcome to episode 129! In the first half, we use a great topic s...

Tea or Books? #128: Do We Read Plays? and Fifty Sounds vs The Housekeeper and the Professor

08 Jun 2024

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Polly Barton, Yoko Ogawa, and plays – welcome to episode 128! In the first half of today’s ‘Tea or Books?’ episode, Rachel and...

Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs The Vicar’s Daughter

25 Apr 2024

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George Orwell, E.H. Young, guilty pleasures – welcome to episode 127! In the first half of the episode, we ask: what is our guiltiest reading pl...

Tea or Books? #126: Should Books Be Banned? and Lessons in Chemistry vs Dear Mrs Bird

18 Mar 2024

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Banned books, Bonnie Garmus and A.J. Pearce – welcome to episode 126! In the first half of the episode, we discuss banned books – should b...

Tea or Books? #125: Do We Read Celeb Memoirs? and Day vs Landscape in Sunlight

10 Feb 2024

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Celeb memoirs, Michael Cunningham, Elizabeth Fair – welcome to episode 125! In the first half, Rachel and I discuss celebrity memoirs – do...

Tea or Books? #124: Our Favourite Reads of 2023

08 Jan 2024

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Our favourite books from 2023 – or reads, because of course we mostly read ‘backlisted’ titles. Always a fun one to record – t...

Tea or Books? #123: Critical or Charitable Reading? and Sheep’s Clothing vs Harriet Said…

14 Dec 2023

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Beryl Bainbridge, Celia Dale, critical and charitable reading – welcome to episode 123! In the first half of the episode we use a suggestion fro...

Tea or Books? #122: Mary Lawson novels w/ Mary Lawson!

22 Nov 2023

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Mary Lawson joins us to talk about all her novels – welcome to episode 122! I can’t quite believe I’m writing this, but THE Mary Law...

Tea or Books? #121: Should Books Have A Message? and Two Jane Gardam Novels

14 Oct 2023

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Jane Gardam and messages in books – welcome to episode 121! In the first half of the episode, Rachel and I discuss whether or not we think books...

Tea or Books? #120: Travel Inspiration from Fiction or Non-Fiction? and The English Air vs The Morning Gift – with Claire / The Captive Reader

02 Sep 2023

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D.E. Stevenson, Eva Ibbotson, travel inspo – welcome to episode 120! We have our first returning guest – the wonderful Claire, who blogs a...

Tea or Books? #119: Amateur Sleuths or Professional Detectives? and Women Talking vs Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

30 Jul 2023

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Miriam Toews, Olga Tokarczuk and detective fiction – welcome to episode 119! In the first half of this episode, we discuss detective fiction &#8...

Tea or Books? #118: Do We Read Children and Adult Books By The Same Author? and Lucy vs The Buddha in the Attic

28 Jun 2023

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Julie Otsuka, Jamaica Kincard, adults’ and children’s books – welcome to episode 118! In the first half – a topic suggested by...

Tea or Books? #117 w/ Lucy Scholes – Do We Like Unnamed Characters? and Ex-Wife vs Sally On The Rocks

06 Jun 2023

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Ursula Parrott, Winifred Boggs, unnamed characters – welcome to episode 117! We are so delighted to welcome Lucy Scholes as a guest for this epi...

Tea or Books? #116: Do We Like Books About Sport and Quick Curtain vs It Walks By Night

12 May 2023

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John Dickson Carr, Alan Melville, sports – welcome to episode 116! In the first half, we talk about sports in books – do we like them? Wil...

Tea or Books? #115: Do We Like Books About Bookshops? and Quartet in Autumn vs Journal of a Solitude

17 Apr 2023

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Barbara Pym, May Sarton, and bookshops – welcome to episode 115! In the first half of the episode, we take up Sally’s suggestion of topic ...

Tea or Books? #114: Linear vs Non-linear Narratives and Winter in the Air vs A World of Love

20 Mar 2023

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Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Bowen, linear narratives – welcome to episode 114! In the first half of this episode, we use a suggestion from...

Tea or Books? #113: Do We Like Literary Retellings? and South Riding vs Ruth

15 Feb 2023

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Elizabeth Gaskell, Winifred Holtby, and more – welcome to episode 113! In the first half of this episode, we look at literary retellings –...

Tea or Books? #112: Best Books of 2022 and They Were Sisters vs The Three Sisters

11 Jan 2023

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Dorothy Whipple, May Sinclair, and favourite books of 2022 – welcome to episode 112! Happy new year! Welcome to the first episode of Tea or Book...

Tea or Books? #111: Do We Care What Characters Look Like? And Good Behaviour vs Full House

08 Dec 2022

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Molly Keane, M.J. Farrell, and characters’ appearances – welcome to episode 111! In the first half, Rachel and I discuss what characters l...

Tea or Books? #110: Do We Care Where Characters Work? and A Helping Hand vs The True Deceiver

06 Nov 2022

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Tove Jansson, Celia Dale, jobs in books! Welcome to episode 110 A bit of a longer break than usual because I lost my voice. But we’re back, aski...

Tea or Books? #109: Boarding House Novels vs Living Alone and Heat Wave vs Heat Lightning

03 Oct 2022

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Penelope Lively, Helen Hull, boarding houses and isolation – welcome to episode 109! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I compare boa...

Tea or Books? #108: Books with Bite or No Bite; Late and Soon vs A Game of Hide and Seek

27 Aug 2022

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Bite, E.M. Delafield, Elizabeth Taylor – welcome to episode 108! In the first half of this episode, we discuss a topic suggested by Gina –...

Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Characters Read? and Two Stella Gibbons Novels

04 Aug 2022

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Books in books and Stella Gibbons – welcome to episode 107! In the first half, we continue our ‘do we care…’ series with &#821...

Tea or Books? #106: Book or Movie First, and The Feast vs Grand Canyon

11 Jul 2022

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Margaret Kennedy, Vita Sackville-West, and film adaptations – welcome to episode 106! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I discuss wh...

Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families and Animal Farm vs Nineteen Eighty-Four

09 Jun 2022

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George Orwell and families – welcome to episode 105! Rachel is busy this month, so I put a shout-out on our Patreon page to see if anybody would...

Tea or Books? #104: Do We Care What Characters Dream? and William – an Englishman vs The Great Fortune

10 May 2022

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Olivia Manning, Cicely Hamilton and dreams – welcome to episode 104 of ‘Tea or Books?’! In the first half of this episode, Rachel an...

Tea or Books? #103: Thinking vs Feeling and Moon Tiger vs The Diviners

11 Apr 2022

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Penelope Lively, Margaret Laurence, thinking and feeling – welcome to episode 103! Apologies for the unexpected delay in recording. Blame Rachel...

Tea or Books? #102: Do We Read Books about Grief? and Five Windows vs Four Gardens – with Claire The Captive Reader

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

D.E. Stevenson, Margery Sharp – and a special guest! In this episode, we have a special guest in the form of Claire – you’ll know he...

Tea or Books? #101: Rachel explores Simon’s shelves

07 Jan 2022

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Rachel takes a look at Simon’s bookshelves – will she take any books away with her?? Way back in episode 70, I was in Rachel’s flat ...

Tea or Books? #100: Q&A Special

09 Dec 2021

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For our special hundredth episode, Rachel and I are doing a question and answer. Thanks so much to everybody who sent in questions – we didn&#82...

Tea or Books? #99: Do We Like Essays? and Brook Evans vs The Crowded Street

16 Nov 2021

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Winifred Holtby, Susan Glaspell, and essays – welcome to episode 99! Sorry for an unintended long break, but we’re back and Rachel even ha...

Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and Favourite Women Prize Winners

14 Sep 2021

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Nature writing and some favourite novels by prizewinning women – welcome to episode 98! As mentioned in the podcast – we’d love to h...

Tea or Books? #97: Spontaneous or Planned Reading, and Tension vs Thank Heaven Fasting

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do we choose our reading, and E.M. Delafield – welcome to episode 97!   In the first half of the episode, we debate whether to read spo...

Tea or Books? #96: Should Offensive Books Be Republished? and two Barbara Pyms

14 Jun 2021

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In this episode, we ask whether or not offensive books should be republished – you might remember the same conversation happening here on Stucki...

Tea or Books? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish Gentlewoman vs The Half-Crown House

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margery Sharp, Helen Ashton – welcome to episode 95. In the first half, we take a detour from our usual practice an...

Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost in May

27 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White, and authors’ houses – welcome to episode 94! In the first half of this episode, we do a topic suggested b...

Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are Called? and Two Tove Jansson Novels

01 Mar 2021

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Summer, Winter, names – welcome to episode 93. In the first half, we ask: ‘Do we care what characters are called?’, looking at the s...

Tea or Books? #92: Do We Care What Characters Wear? and Girl, Woman, Other vs Life After Life

02 Feb 2021

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Bernadine Evaristo, Kate Atkinson, and clothes – welcome to episode 92. In the first half of the episode, Rachel and I discuss clothes in books ...

Tea or Books? #91: Familiar or Unfamiliar Settings? and Two Elizabeth von Arnim novels

11 Jan 2021

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Elizabeth von Arnim and settings of novels – welcome to episode 91! In the first half of the novel, we look at the settings of novels, and ask w...

Tea or Books? #90: Good or Bad Reading Year? and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn vs O, The Brave Music

13 Dec 2020

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Betty Smith, Dorothy Evelyn Smith, and a review of our reading years… In the first half, we look back over a very unusual year and ask – w...

Tea or Books? #89: Do we care about gardens?, and Gilead vs Home

10 Nov 2020

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Marilynne Robinson and gardens – welcome to episode 89! We are scraping the barrel a little in our first half, and arguably repeating ourselves,...

Tea or Books? #88: Blurbs or No Blurbs, and The Remains of the Day vs Never Let Me Go

22 Sep 2020

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Blurbs and Kazuo Ishiguro – welcome to episode 88! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk about whether we want blurbs – i.e...

Tea or Books? #87: Biographies vs Novels about Real People and Emma by Jane Austen and Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater

16 Aug 2020

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Jane Austen, Jane and Mary Findlater, and – it’s episode 87!   We recorded this episode a little while ago and I have been lazy at ed...

Tea or Books? #86: Empathy vs Sympathy and The Child That Books Built vs When I Was A Child I Read Books

06 Jul 2020

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Marilynne Robinson, Francis Spufford, empathy and sympathy! Welcome to episode 86, in which we talk about characters we feel empathetic towards and th...

Tea or Books? #85: One House or Many Houses, and A Thatched Roof vs Fresh From The Country

06 Jun 2020

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Houses, Miss Read, Beverley Nichols! In the first half of today’s episode, we look at whether we prefer novels that stay in one house or those t...

Tea or Books? #84: Sea vs Mountains and Her Son’s Wife vs Auntie Mame

06 May 2020

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Dorothy Canfield [Fisher], Patrick Dennis, sea, and mountains – episode 84!   In the first half of this episode, we talk about novels set i...

Tea or Books? #83: Comfort Zones (Yes or No?) and Two Willa Cather Novels

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Comfort zones, comfort novels, and two novels by Willa Cather – welcome to episode 83! In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I talk abou...

Tea or Books? #82: Australia vs New Zealand and two Adrian Bell books

09 Mar 2020

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Australia, New Zealand, and Adrian Bell – welcome to episode 82! In the first half, we do a topic suggested by Lindsay – books by Australi...

Tea or Books? #81: Style vs Plot and Living vs Loving by Henry Green

18 Feb 2020

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Henry Green, style over substance, and some listener questions – here’s episode 81! In the first half of this episode, we discuss style vs...

Tea or Books? #80: Should Authors Only Write What They Know? and Agatha Christie vs Dorothy L Sayers

12 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A couple of Queens of Crime and an important question about what writers should be allowed to write…   In the first half of episode 80, we ...

Tea or Books? #79: Political Books (Yes or No?), and The Diary of a Bookseller vs Bookshop Memories

10 Dec 2019

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Shaun Bythell, George Orwell, and a whole host of politicians – it’s episode 79! We have a special guest for this episode – my very ...

Tea or Books? #78: 19th Century vs 20th Century and Two Unfinished Jane Austen Novels

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sanditon, The Watsons, and a whistle-stop tour of the centuries – we’re back!   In the first half of this episode, we take a suggesti...

Tea or Books? #77: Fantasy vs Fantastic Fiction and Wine of Honour vs Beneath the Visiting Moon

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

World War Two fiction and the difference between fantasy and fantastic fiction – welcome to episode 77! In the first half of this episode, I div...

Tea or Books? #76: Illustrations (yes or not), and Miss Hargreaves vs Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

22 Aug 2019

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Miss Hargreaves! Finally! But also illustrations and a novel by Rachel Malik. In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether or not we want ill...

Tea or Books? #75: Moral Readers or Amoral Readers and The Summer Book vs Birthday Letters

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tove Jansson, Ted Hughes, and fictional morality – welcome to episode 75!   We’re back after a bit of a break – and we’re...

Tea or Books? #74: YA (yay or nay?) and Stoner vs The Easter Parade

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Young Adult fiction – are we fans? And Richard Yates vs John Williams.   In the first half of this episode, we venture into potentially con...

Tea or Books? #73: One Chance or Many Chances, and Two Margery Sharp Novels

16 May 2019

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How many chances will we give an author? And Margery Sharp!   In the first half of the episode, we ask whether we’re one-strike-you’r...

Tea or Books? #72: Reading at Home vs Reading Elsewhere and The Hours vs Mrs Woolf and the Servants

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Where do we like to read? And books inspired by Virginia Woolf. It’s a very ‘us’ episode.   In the first half of this episode, ...

Tea or Books? #71: Multi-Narrative vs Single Narrative, and Period Piece vs A London Child of the 1870s

03 Apr 2019

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Lots of perspectives or a single narrative, and two 19th-century childhood memoirs – here we go! In the first half of this episode, we discuss m...

Tea or Books? #70: Simon Takes a Tour of Rachel’s Bookshelves

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Simon visited Rachel – so naturally took a look around the shelves. Come for the tour! In a change from scheduled programming, we do a slightly ...

Tea or Books? #69: Small World vs Wide World and Blue Remembered Hills vs Seasoned Timber

20 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rosemary Sutcliff, and the scope of the books we love. Happy February!   In the first half of this episode, we discuss s...

Tea or Books? #68: Tact vs Attack, and North and South vs Pride and Prejudice

29 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The books we hate (and should we tell you?) and Elizabeth Gaskell vs Jane Austen.     In the first half of this episode, we talk about the b...

Tea or Books? #67: Books as Gifts: Yes or No, and Little vs Alva & Irva

08 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Edward Carey and books as gifts – happy new year; we’re back!   We had a bit of a longer break over Christmas, but we’re back a...

Tea or Books? #66: Domestic Books vs Worldly Books and Elizabeth Bowen vs Elizabeth Taylor

27 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

  Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, and venturing into the worldly…   In the first half of this episode, we look at… domestic b...

Tea or Books? #65: cars vs bicycles, and Hons and Rebels vs Tory Heaven

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

  We are finally back! Apologies for the lengthy break – all is explained in this episode. We’re not back as soon as intended, becaus...

Tea or Books? #64: WW1 vs WW2 and Coronation vs Love of Seven Dolls

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Gallico and two World Wars – quite a mix!   In the first half of this episode, we look at the books of the World Wars – whether ...

Tea or Books? #63: First Edition vs Worst Edition and Parnassus on Wheels vs The Education of Harriet Hatfield

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Women opening bookshops, and how we feel about the physical book.   In the first half of this episode, we look at first edition vs worst edition ...

Tea or Books? #62: Internet vs Bookshop and Mr Pim Passes By vs Four Days’ Wonder

13 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Two novels by A.A. Milne and we get deep about Amazon.   In the first half, we talk buying books in bookshops vs buying books online – taki...

Tea or Books? #61: Do We Care What Characters Eat? and The French Lieutenant’s Woman vs Remarkable Creatures

24 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Fowles, Tracy Chevalier, and eating in books – Lyme and limes, if you will!   Sorry for a bit of a delay (because I had to read two qu...

Tea or Books? #60: married vs unmarried characters, and Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day vs Patricia Brent, Spinster

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is all about married and unmarried people – in general, and two ‘spinsters’ in particular. Buckle up!   (Apologies...

Tea or Books? #59: Hard vs Easy Holiday Reading, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle vs The Haunting of Hill House

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shirley Jackson and holiday reading – welcome to episode 59!   In the first half of this episode, we look at holiday reading – chiefl...

Tea or Books? #58: Book Groups (yes or no), and The Fountain Overflows vs Invitation to the Waltz

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca West, Rosamond Lehmann, and book groups – welcome to episode 58!   I can hardly believe that we’ve not done an episode on boo...

Tea or Books? #57: save vs binge, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd vs The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Murder mysteries and binge-reading – enjoy episode 57!   In this episode, we compare an uncharacteristically modern novel – The Seve...

Tea or Books? #56: Review vs Recommendation and The Lark vs High Wages

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve finally done the reviewers vs recommendations episode! Also: E Nesbit and Dorothy Whipple.   Every now and then, the critics vs blogg...

Tea or Books? #55: Versatility vs Dependability and House-Bound by Winifred Peck vs The Priory by Dorothy Whipple

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dorothy Whipple, Winifred Peck, and authors who hop genres – welcome to episode 55!   In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I discu...

Tea or Books? #54: Reading Children’s Books as Children vs Adults, and Tom’s Midnight Garden vs The Secret Garden

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A children’s books special today, featuring Frances Hodgson Burnett and Philippa Pearce. Not in person, you understand.   In the first half...

Tea or Books? #53: Top of TBR vs Bottom of TBR, and The Bookshop vs According to Mark

05 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the battle of the Penelopes – and which books we’re most likely to read first (top or bottom of the pile?)   Rachel is bac...

Tea or Books? #52: Detective Fiction vs Crime Fiction and Merry Hall vs The Sweet and Twenties

18 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Detective fiction, crime fiction, and Beverley Nichols – what fun!   Rachel has had to take a quick break from the podcast, but I was delig...

Tea or Books? #51: Author Parents vs Author Children, and The Boat by L.P. Hartley vs Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Literary families, and the reveal on our recommendations for each other – we’re back after a seasonal break. We’ve missed you! &#160...

Tea or Books? #50: Question & Answer

26 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate episode 50, we are doing a question and answer episode!   I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas – I’m editin...