Summer books 2025

Backlisted

Backlisted Podcast

Hobbies, Leisure, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Books we think you might enjoy on a plane, by the pool or in the park. Andy, Nicky and our old friend Una McCormack discuss the following fantastic beach reads - Birch reads? - and a novel from Backlisted's own backlist: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre); The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, trans. Adriana Hunter (Penguin); Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes (Faber); and The Lowlife by Alexander Baron (Faber). This is Backlisted's 10th anniversary year, so over the summer, we'll be revisiting a few old favourites or titles by much-loved authors that somehow slipped through the cracks. We last discussed The Lowlife on Episode 64 back in 2018, but it has just been republished and is back in bookshops now. PS. Andy would like it to be known that books can also be enjoyed indoors. * 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 with extra bonus fortnightly episodes and exclusive writing, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted *You can sign up to our free monthly newsletter here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.7	Hello and welcome to Backlisted, a podcast which gives new life to old books.
0:50.7	I'm Andy Miller, author of the Year of Reading Dangerously and Inventory, an unreliable guide to my record collection.
0:57.6	And I'm Nikki Birch, the producer of Backlisted.
1:02.6	And joining us on the sofa today is an old friend of Blue Peter.
1:04.8	Sorry, sorry, backlisted, sorry, backlisted.
1:07.1	Please introduce yourself, old friend.
1:14.5	I'm Dr. Udaba-Kormack, science fiction author and associate fellow of Hobarton College, Cambridge.
1:22.3	Well, that's told me. That is lovely to have you, Una. Thank you very much. I've got a big box of unread books. Just tell me where to put them. All right, very good. Thank you so much.
1:28.2	My pleasure. Yeah, so John isn put them. All right, very good. Thank you so much. My pleasure.
1:29.2	Yeah, so John isn't here.
1:30.6	We're really pleased that Una has stepped into the breach and will be our regular co-host for a bit.
1:35.8	On today's show, we'll be discussing a couple of new books and a couple of older titles.
1:40.5	It's one of our summer specials.
1:42.4	We've got the Ministry of Time by Collaliang Bradley, The Anomily by
1:46.7	Erva Letelier, translated by Adriana Hunter, poetry in the making by Ted Hughes, and a book
1:53.4	we've talked about on the show before, and that we all love, Alexander Barron's The Low Life,
1:58.2	which has just been reissued and is back in the bookshops now.
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