Scott Preston Writes a UK Western

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, a dark and funny tale of sheep farming in Rural England that reads like an American Western by Cormac McCarthy. Sound a little strange? Well, it is. But it is also compelling, suspenseful, complex and packed with great characters. Scott Preston is a debut novelist, and this book, The Borrowed Hills, may defy a two sentence description but it’s worth the read. For our bookstore this week we talk to Whitelam books in Reading, Massachusetts, who tell us about what they did to bring in folks on Indpendent Bookstore Day. Join us. Books mentioned in this week's episode: The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren Shane by Jack Schaefer Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey True Grit by Charles Portis Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Independent People by Halldór Laxness Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	Welcome back, Bookies, or as Kate likes to call you book nerds, maybe we could use bookworms.
0:42.2	I don't know.
0:42.8	I'm Charlie Gibson.
0:43.9	I'm the back half of the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.
0:48.5	I'm sorry, there are just so many images flashing into my ad.
0:51.7	I guess I am the front half of the bookcase and I welcome you as well.
0:55.8	And we'll just combine them and I'll be a bookie nerd. Although that makes me sound like I'm
1:00.1	sort of a nerd about the horse races. You guys get the picture. Well, we've done this for two years and
1:04.7	I'm always the last one. Maybe for the next two years we could be the bookcase with Charlie and Kate.
1:10.0	Maybe. No. No. No. I'm coming first.
1:14.6	This is my moment. If I could, I would sing Frank Sinatra's my way. I know my place. Anyway,
1:21.2	this week's book is The Borrowed Hills. It is by a young novelist. It's his first novel.
1:27.2	Scott Preston is his name, The Borrowed Hills.
1:30.4	And, Kate, I'm going to beg your indulgence because I'm going to talk for a few minutes.
1:34.7	Because I want to start putting this book in the perspective of the American Western.
1:40.7	But the twist in this case is it's not an American Western. It's an English novel
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