The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards

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🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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John and Andy are joined by writer and actor Will Smith for a special episode recorded live at the Guernsey Literary Festival on Sunday May 5th 2019. The novel under discussion is G.B. Edwards's unique The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, set on Guernsey, published posthumously in 1981 and of which William Golding wrote: 'To read it is not like reading, but living.'Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)6'03 - The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards* 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, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	The podcast that gives new life to old books.
0:57.7	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound,
1:01.0	the website where readers get to crowd fund the books they really want to read.
1:05.0	My name is Andy Miller. I am the author of the Year of Reading Dangerously, and this week I was attacked on social media by Sky Ankerman Adam Bolton for reading too much.
1:17.0	Do you see that?
1:21.0	I did indeed.
1:22.0	I contributed I think an emoliant tweet saying don't trigger these people
1:27.2	and don't trigger these people. I wasn't trying to trigger him. I just put up a pile of you
1:30.8	you didn't do anything I think there is a two views on this there is
1:34.6	a view that he was actually trying to pay you a compliment but he had a pretty
1:37.5	run way of going about it if you ask me he said I posted a pile or a picture of the pile of books that I read last month and it was 20 books and some of them were short, but reading is my job.
1:50.0	And he retweeted my tweet with the words well done.
1:55.0	Do you have a job or a family?
1:59.0	And I replied saying I do have the job,
2:04.3	Adam Bolton, and my family is very patient
2:07.7	as I imagine yours must be.
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