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Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Andrew O'Hagan

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Ora Et Labora

Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8984 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author and journalist, Andrew O'Hagan, joins Simon and Matt to discuss his latest novel, Calendonian Road. They talk about the inspiration behind the book, the ever-changing landscape of British politics and pandemics and why it took a decade to write. Andrew also gives us an insight into the creation of some of his characters, and tells us a great story about his time aboard a luxury yacht! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:18.5

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0:25.2

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello, Welcome to Books of the Year. It's another podcast from your friends at

0:45.5

Books of Year which is a podcast. It is you can get in touch with us at any time

0:49.2

books at year at yahoo.com. There are a number of ways of getting in contact. We're always very happy to get any kind of indication

0:56.6

there's anyone there at all. Yelling into the void. An email from Sarah Ryan, dear memoir and

1:01.8

auto fiction. I have been delving a lot. I've read this very badly. I have been delving into a lot of non-fiction recently.

1:11.2

Learning about climate activism, Michaela Loach's It's Not That Radical, mushrooms, Merlin Shelldrake's

1:17.8

entangled life and Jazz in the 1950s, James Kaplan's three shades of blue.

1:23.5

All these were recommendations from friends

1:25.3

and I really enjoyed all of them.

1:27.1

I am now hungry for knowledge

1:29.1

and wondered if you had any suggestions

1:30.8

of where to go next.

1:32.0

I know Matt is always, he's always got a good sports

1:36.1

book recommendation up his sleeve. I was very taken with the interview you did with Anakee. Perhaps

1:42.2

the restless republic should be my next purchase, indeed it should.

1:45.4

I wish your recommendations with that, I mean of the non-fictions books that I've read this year,

1:51.1

restless republic by anarchy is definitely the best book. Yeah it's it's excellent.

1:56.8

Sports books I'm in the process of reading tons of them at the moment. I'll tell you one that I would recommend is Casta Semenya's book. She's written an autobiography. She's written it herself. Not all athletes tend to write their own books, they tend to get some

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