A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

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🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) is the subject of this episode of Backlisted, recorded in the week of the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe. Joining John and Andy to discuss the book - and Defoe's extraordinary life and careers - are novelist James Hannah and Dr Jo Waugh, senior lecturer at York St John University and an expert on literature and disease. Plus Andy talks about Jane Gardam's Defoe-inspired novel Crusoe's Daughter and John has been reading Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)8'50 - Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam15'03 Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi19'05 A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.2	month 15. Off Wrens 9th, January 2024. Representative 88.8% APR variable. Terms apply, 18 plus subject to approval. And the Hello and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books.
0:58.0	Today you find us in the City of London.
1:01.0	It is September 1665 and we are locked in a small tradesman's house in the east of the city.
1:06.5	A watchman stands guard at the locked door and outside the pitiest screams of the afflicted echo through the empty streets.
1:14.4	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the platform where readers crowd fund the books
1:18.8	they really want to read.
1:20.3	And I'm Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously.
1:23.7	Joining us today are the writer and backlisted listener James Hanna.
1:29.6	Hello.
1:30.6	Who was listening to 90 hours of this podcast in a week.
1:35.0	No, over the space of several years.
1:37.8	Hello, James.
1:38.8	James's first novel, The A to Z of You and Me
1:41.6	was published by Doubleday in 2015 and was listed for the Desmond
1:44.8	Elliot Prize for debut fiction. He's currently at work on a second novel. He has a master's
1:50.2	in Samuel Beckett Studies from the University of Reading, home of the Beckett International
1:55.8	Foundation.
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