And the Hello? Hello and welcome to Backlisted the podcast that gives new life to old books.

Today you find us in 19th century Paris in a narrow passageway near the

Sen as we look through a gloomy window into a haberdashes shop where two women

sit surrounded by wool and thread and buttons silent in the semi-darkness.

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the platform where readers crowd from the books they really want to read.

I'm Andy Miller author of the Year of Reading Dangerously

and joining us today is R, is, no, R, the novelist Andrea Hagen

and the other novelist. Rachel Joyce.

Hello.

There are only two novelists and we've got both.

Andrew O'Hagen was born in Glasgow.

He has been nominated for the Book of Prize, was voted one of Grant's Best of Young

British Novelists in 2003 and won the EM Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts

and Letters. He's editor at large of the London Review of Books, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the author of five novels, Andrew?

Yes, I think so.

I'm trying to keep up, it's hard, you know.

People think you've got an inside of track just because you write them, but that is in fact a fallacy.

I'm scratching my head.

Let's say five.

Of which the latest is Mayflies and that was published recently by Faber.

But that is all secondary to Andrew's most notable achievement. In 1986 listeners I went to the H&R cloak record

shop in Croydon. That's the first mention of Croydon today but not the

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