LoLT: The Best Croissant in Paris and Two New Books

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

Books, Arts

5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two new books: The Watermark by Sam Mills and Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison. Then Mel shares the buttery story of the best croissants in Paris. Links The Watermark by Sam Mills Sam Mill’s website The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison Gerloczy in Budapest: the hotel and the cafe Alma Nomad Bakery in Madrid Moon Croissants in Paris Instagram: Up close and personal with a double-baked almond croissant Fascinating facts about croissants Three-day Croissant recipe Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Join our FREE Substack to get our (awesome) newsletter and join in chats with other people who love books and travel. Do you enjoy our show? Do you want to make friends with other (lovely) listeners? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Substack Patreon Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio! Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, a quirky love story that celebrates the world of books.
0:06.3	The story of the architect of modern comedy.
0:09.0	Plus our distraction of the week.
0:10.9	I'm Mel.
0:11.5	I'm Dave.
0:12.4	This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:17.2	I haven't read the novel I'm about to describe yet, but it's the very next book I'll crack open before I start officially reading for season seven of a strong sense of place.
0:28.1	Oh, that's exciting.
0:29.2	I know. Both of those things are exciting, right?
0:31.1	Yeah, it's nice to have a loaded TVR.
0:33.3	The book I'm looking forward to reading is The Watermark by Sam Mills.
0:38.2	It's a love story about two characters, Rachel and Jamie, who become trapped in a novel in progress by a down-and-out author named Augustus Fate.
0:49.8	Augustus has been on the short list for the Booker Prize seven times, but his novels are missing emotion and fully rendered characters.
0:58.8	So he does what any desperate author would do.
1:02.6	He serves our duo Magic Tea that sedates them, then plops them into his not very good work in progress.
1:10.7	And now they're like his little puppets.
1:13.8	And fate, Augustus Fate, is pulling the strings.
1:18.1	Sounds like meta-fiction.
1:20.6	It is because to return to their real life, Rachel and Jamie have to find their way through a maze of stories
1:29.2	set in different times and places, including Victorian Oxford, modern Manchester,
1:36.5	a winter in Russia, and a futuristic version of London from 2047.
1:42.8	About halfway through this book, there are pages that take the form of a graphic
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