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All the Books!

All the Backlist! July 14, 2017

All the Books!

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses The Restraint of Beasts, We Eat Our Own, The Known World, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by The Folio Society editions of Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse Fire Lover: A True Story by Joseph Wambaugh The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh The Force by Don Winslow A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade Gork, the Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moer The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moer Final Girls by Riley Sager Night Film by Marisha Pessl We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson Security by Gina Wohlsdorf A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (Translator) Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness by Jennifer Tseng The Known World by Edward P. Jones Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At your work Christmas do, not feeling the cannerbays.

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Why not get a pick me up with McDonald's limited edition chicken Big Mac

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with two deliciously crispy chicken paties,

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our iconic Big Mac sauce and Gertens or not.

0:14.6

Only available till the 3rd of January.

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So from 11 a.m. subject to availability. You're listening to all the back lists, a weekly show about books that are not new.

0:35.0

I'm your host, Liberty Hardy, and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist.

0:39.0

This is episode 4, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the

0:43.4

week's new releases and more. So hello all you cats and kittens out there I have

0:48.4

so many great titles to tell you about today I'm gonna need to need a bigger boat. So let's just jump right in. Or let's not. Before I get started, how about I tell you about today's sponsor? I'm a wicked liar. Today's sponsor is the Folio Society editions of Margaret Atwoods, The Handmaid's

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Tale, and Neil Gaiman's American Gods. For nearly 70 years, The Folio Society has been

1:10.9

creating beautiful illustrated hard-back books and these exceptional

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modern classics are guaranteed to delight any book lover.

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Folio's definitive collection's edition of Neil Gaiman's American Gods has been illustrated

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at the author's request by longtime collaborator Dave McKeon and Margaret

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is illustrated by award-winning artist Anna and Elena Belbuso and has been praised

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by Atwood as a truly stunning edition. These and other classic titles are available exclusively from

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foliosococococococococococ

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and the folio society was founded in London in 1947 and they published carefully crafted editions of the world's

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famous literature. Each one contains either newly commissioned illustrations or especially researched

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images and is hardbackbound and slipped case. They are exclusively available from folio

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society.com. There is a list of awards that the Margaret Outwood Book won for

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