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Hello and welcome to Backlisted, a podcast that gives new life to old books.

Today you find us in the early 60s in a charming Thameside town with the streets of small houses where custom officers and

sailors and Lightermen live their retirements watching the river traffic from

between parted lace curtains or behind Asperdistras in front parlours.

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the website where readers and writers come together

to make great books.

And I'm Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously.

Our guests today are both returning for a second time.

First of all, rustling some paper, as only she knows how.

The legendary publisher and writer, who is best known for founding the Varago press in 1972,

once described by the Guardian as part Lebanese, part Irish and holy Australian,

calm and kalil, yeah, sorry about that,

calm and kalil settled in London in 1964,

advertising herself in the Times as Australian,

B.A. wantsants Job in Book Publishing.

Is that true? Yes, that's true. After changing a generation's taste through her

publishing at Virago and in particular the Virago Modern Classics which

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