LoLT: A Valentine’s Day Poem and Two New Books
Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books
Melissa & Dave
5.0 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to |
| 0:05.8 | buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. Save and splurge at |
| 0:10.9 | Okado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges |
| 0:16.2 | apply. New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Arcado.com. |
| 0:25.4 | Coming up, a cunning mystery set on a train in Australia. |
| 0:29.1 | A graphic novel about a punk band Lost in Time. |
| 0:31.3 | Plus our distraction of the week. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Mel. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time. |
| 0:39.7 | I eat up closed circle mysteries like popcorn. |
| 0:45.0 | And if they're set on a train, it's like having just the right amount of salt and extra butter. |
| 0:48.4 | Accurate. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm feeling a little snacky today. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.5 | So I am predisposed to like the new novel, Everyone on This Train is a |
| 0:55.8 | suspect by Benjamin Stevenson. That's a great title. The cover is really, really cute, too. |
| 1:02.2 | I urge you to take a look at the cover of that book. Benjamin Stevenson is well known in Australia |
| 1:08.3 | as a stand-up comedian. And his 22 book, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, was a massive hit. |
| 1:16.4 | It was published in 26 countries, and it's in the works as an HBO series. |
| 1:21.3 | That story is an homage and a send-up of Golden Age murder mystery tropes. |
| 1:26.3 | It has a very cheeky narrator who breaks the |
| 1:29.0 | fourth wall and speaks directly to the reader. That narrator's name is Ernest Cunningham. He's an author, |
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