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Episode image is a detail of the cover of A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, published in 2006 by Canongate Books; cover image: plainpicture / Rachel Rebibo; design: Peter Adlington / Canongate.
Joining Charles Adrian for the 109th Second Hand Book Factory is unruffled writer, storyteller, poet and theatre-maker Anna Beecher. They talk about a deeply compassionate classic, the rebelliousness of fairy tales and the value of learning how to get lost.
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter is also discussed in Page One 86 and in Page One 141. Other books by Angela Carter are discussed on the podcast are Wise Children (Page One 54), The Passion Of New Eve (Page One 76) and The Sadean Women (Page One 123 and, more briefly, Page One 190).
Episode released: 27th June, 2017.
Book listing:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Introduction (by Helen Simpson) to The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
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