The High Window by Raymond Chandler

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🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Raymond Chandler's 'The High Window', his third book featuring world weary detective Philip Marlowe, is introduced to Backlisted by Mojo magazine's Andrew Male. Plus the joys of walking in the rain in England, remembering Anita Brookner, and JG Ballard's unintentional mind games... Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 4'38 - Rain by Melissa Harrison 13'58 - Latecomers by Anita Brookner 21'53 - The High Window by Raymond Chandler * 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 get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a patron at www.patreon.com/backlisted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	things that characterize bat listed without us meaning. Things that
0:13.2	characterised Battliss did without us meaning to. I remembered after we were talking
0:17.0	about Ballard's work routine last week that I met J.G. Balard once. We did an event with him at the bookshop that I worked in. This was in the early 90s.
0:26.0	And the event was a signing and it took place on a Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
0:31.0	Ballard turned up, was delightful. At 2 o'clock we Ballard turned up was delightful.
0:32.8	At two o'clock we sat in behind the signing table and nobody came.
0:37.2	My manager made us or go put our coats on and go down the fire escape and come in the front of the shop to
0:46.0	queue up to get the ballard to sign some books anyway off we'd all been around once and
0:51.5	Dane was thinking about sending us through again.
0:54.0	Ballard said, I don't, he said,
0:56.0	I don't think this is really working to you.
0:58.0	He was ever so nice and off you went he went home.
1:01.0	Two minutes after he left the shop. This is true a black cab screeched to a
1:06.7	hall outside and out of the back clutching a pile of novels by J.G. Ballard came Brian Ferry.
1:13.0	And we had to go,
1:17.0	sorry Brian, you've missed him.
1:19.0	He's going terribly disappointed.
1:20.0	I'm very disappointed in that.
1:22.0	He can't believe you can't believe that Brian Ferrian and JG
1:25.2	Ballard would not have already spent long evenings together would you?
1:29.2	The Wells of Music and the Wells of Books.
1:30.8	Balard had a grudge against Ferry and it was all part of Ballard's ground
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