Episode 7: Historical Fiction with Jodi Picoult
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Penguin Books UK
4.1 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Join us as we time-travel through our bookshelves as we recommend must-read historical fiction in answer to your reading requests. Plus, bestselling author Jodi Picoult shares her theory on the true author behind Shakespeare's plays that inspired her new novel, By Any Other Name.
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Books and authors mentioned in this episode:
By Any Other Name by Jodie Picoult
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Catherine Arden
The Glass Woman by Caroline Lee
Firebrand by Elizabeth Freemantle
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
For the full list of books and the transcript visit: Episode 7: Historical Fiction
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| 1:03.5 | I'm in our podcast studio, absolutely surrounded by beautiful books, and I'm pleased to talk to some of the people who write and publish them. |
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| 1:31.1 | Today, we're going to scratch the surface of one of my very favourite genres as we take a spin through time to talk about all things historical fiction, |
| 1:40.4 | filling your reading pile with page turning reads. |
| 1:44.1 | From reimagined conversations with historical figures to bringing major art. filling your reading pile with page turning reads. |
| 1:50.8 | From reimagined conversations with historical figures to bringing major world events to life for today's readers, |
| 1:56.9 | historical fiction can be a way into big, complex ideas and globe-spanning stories. |
| 2:00.7 | But with all of history to choose from, where do we even begin? Our team have been time travelling |
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