Episode image is a detail from the cover of Far From The Tree (Parents, Children and the Search for Identity) by Andrew Solomon, published in 2013 by Chatto & Windus; cover photograph © Adam Fuss.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Far From The Tree (Parents, Children and the Search for Identity) by Andrew Solomon, published in 2013 by Chatto & Windus; cover photograph © Adam Fuss.

Joining Charles Adrian for the 110th Second Hand Book Factory is Christopher Forbes, who is a person at crossroads. They tackle the mythologisation of history, a traveller’s view of Europe and opposing ideas of illness and identity.

The TED talk by Andrew Solomon that Christopher mentions, Love No Matter What, can be found here.

Episode released: 11th July, 2017.

 

Book Listing:

Coming In To Land by Robert Shearman (from Everyone’s Just So So Special)

Can-Cans, Cats And Cities Of Ash by Mark Twain (No. 13 in Penguin’s Great Journeys series)

Far From The Tree (Parents, Children and the Search for Identity) by Andrew Solomon

 

Links:

Andrew Solomon: Love No Matter What

Charles Adrian Gillott