Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

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🗓️ 14 December 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by author Linda Grant and Unbound's Mathew Clayton to discuss 'Good Morning, Midnight' by 'Wide Sargasso Sea' author Jean Rhys. Plus perfume, the previously unheard of genre of Scandinavian magic realism, and a mistake in the best selling science book of all time. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 1'49 - A Winter Book by Tove Jansson 9'46 - A Brief History of Time by Prof Stephen Hawking 17'30 - Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys * 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 and join in with the book chat, listen without adverts, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The organ pop is my favorite person in the world.
0:07.0	Why not?
0:09.0	I have a photograph of it.
0:12.0	Really? Yeah, I'm to see a photograph of him. Really?
0:13.0	Yeah, I'm to see a picture of him.
0:15.0	I love that.
0:16.0	You should make him your avatar on Twitter.
0:20.0	That would really...
0:21.0	That would really... Look Look at him just relaxing.
0:30.0	What was it six one against Southampton?
0:32.0	Yeah, when he was pointed to him how is it true you've had a hair transplant
0:36.0	and he said yeah I think it looks really stylish what do you think he's just shameless and then he said somebody else some other manager had said I play football as poetry and he said I play football as enemy
0:49.3	Metcall. Absolutely brilliant he's fantastic I love him and all the Liverpool fans completely adore him.
0:56.3	Look at the results. Yes, I know. I know. Love him.
1:00.9	Love him.
1:02.1	Hello and welcome to Backlisted, the new podcast where old books get a new life.
1:07.0	I'm John Mitchinson and we're coming to you live from the kitchen table of Unbound,
1:12.0	the website where readers and writers come together to
1:15.4	produce great books.
1:16.4	And I'm Andy Miller, I'm the author of the Year of Reading Dangerously.
1:20.2	We are the Levis and Butthehead of reading as every week.
1:24.8	It's up to you to decide which is which.
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