The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

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🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this episode John and Andy are joined by novelist and critic Amanda Craig and novelist and memoirist Alice Jolly to discuss Rebecca West's debut novel The Return of the Soldier, published in 1918 when West was still in her mid-twenties. In addition John talks about Julia Blackburn's new book Time Song, while Andy shares his thoughts on Strip Jack Naked, Alexander Baron's little-read and extremely rare sequel to The Lowlife, itself the subject of an episode of Backlisted from 2018. *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	The We've now got 120 people signed up for a Soho pub crawl so we we think we're going to have to, including everybody, Phil Dirt Box, Philip
0:26.2	Salon, all the great remaining characters to Soho. I was to say that will finish Soho
0:31.0	off. Well I think what, yeah it's either a celebration or awake it doesn't
0:34.4	really matter because they don't care we're going to launch the book on April Fool's
0:37.8	day the book is called Rebel Rebel how Mavericks made the modern world and it's Chris is a complete one off you must
0:45.3	have met Chris at some point he was Blue Ron della Turk he ran the wag club for 18
0:49.6	years his authenticity is beyond reproach, but the idea of the pub crawlers that it was a level we put into the funding of the book which is called
1:01.0	Rebel, and Mavericks made the modern world.
1:04.0	Push it again. And he got a massive sign up.
1:07.0	We've now got, as I say, 120 people who want to come on this,
1:10.0	including Sugs, Kevin Roland, Jerry Dammers.
1:15.0	All the good guys.
1:17.0	So, Nicky, you sent me a message this week saying that you have read how many books so far in 2019?
1:24.0	Okay yeah so I've read 12 books so far and it's now mid-February.
1:28.0	In 2019?
1:31.0	Yes.
1:32.0	How does that compare with how many books you read in 2018? I think I probably read in 2018
1:41.4	Do you realize that if you keep reading at this rate you're going to beat Miller in the how many
1:46.6	yeah it's good it's good nice to have a little bit of competition?
1:49.9	You're going to hit the 120 mark which I personally feel is slightly edging on the tragic.
1:55.6	And what's your favorite book so far that you've read this year? Is it the rainbow
2:00.4	done by DHs?
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