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The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks

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Arts, Books, Leisure, Hobbies

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The poet Rishi Dastidar joins John and Andy to talk about Sebastian Faulks' least known and first non-fiction title, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives.Also in this episode Andy talks about the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn while John has been enjoying Folk by Zoe Gilbert. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 8'35 - The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn 16'55 - Folk by Zoe Gilbert 21'45 - The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks *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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0:00.0

And the Happy birthday to me everyone.

0:23.0

Andy's birthday for me.

0:25.0

Cheers.

0:26.0

We're recording this about three days after the website was launched.

0:30.0

And people seem to love the website and quite right too,

0:32.0

because it was plainly a labor of not just love but also labor.

0:37.0

And I think we publicly thanked and should again Joe Hodgson who did a lot of the listening to and making of the notes.

0:45.1

Joe, Joe will never hear this because my God, he doesn't want to listen to me and you talk

0:49.7

anymore than he's had to already. God almighty. But Joe, if you are listening, thanks ever so much. What a brilliant job is.

0:57.0

Yeah, I mean, I think it was a six week, six weeks it took him, which is, you know, that's a lot to listen to.

1:02.0

We've got to load up our events this week. That's

1:05.0

that's I know and it was amusing for 12 hours there were the Andy to write in the

1:10.8

FAQ. I was going to say right eagle-eyed website visitors spotted.

1:15.0

I wasn't asked to do very much for the website.

1:18.0

I was asked to answer two questions,

1:20.0

but failed to hit my deadline,

1:22.0

which is the story of my creative life

1:26.1

but you know if you do see those two answers now they are good like they were

1:31.6

well worth waiting.

1:33.0

And also, John, what do you think about being confronted with the track record of two and a half years?

1:39.4

I actually found quite unsettled.

1:40.9

The thing is you realize that you have read quite a lot.

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