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John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social and Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social giving new life to old books every fortnight. Bookshop.org Indie Champion 2023. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.

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Started Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot this morning, from the latest @backlisted.bsky.social episode. My partner read it last week and said it’s the best book he’s read for the last couple of years, and can not believe it’s not currently in print. So far, I’d agree one hundred percent.

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Found pasted into the absolutely mint copy of "Understanding Anthony Powell" I acquired recently. Judging by the fact that the 20 year old unprotected dust wrapper bears not a single crease, stain nor wrinkle, the students of Arizona did not care much for Powell. @backlisted.bsky.social

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Sunday reading and Sunday listening. The book is for an upcoming @backlisted.bsky.social and the music from a #locklisted recommendation from @iammilliam.bsky.social

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“I VOTED FOR YOU AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE!” @backlisted.bsky.social

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I am rocking out to the Manics in Trinity College, Dublin having listened to this one on my walk here. A coincidence that will only become apparent by listening to yet another brilliant episode.

New @backlisted.bsky.social! Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social John, Nicky and me. This episode is stronger than Mensa, Miller (no relation) and Mailer, spits out Plath and Pinter etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

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Wenn dein Literatur - Podcast aus dem Nichts anfängt, das Werk deiner Lieblingsband zu diskutieren 🤣

Seriously though, after listening to this episode you'll want to read not just Gaining Ground but also @regretteruane.bsky.social's new novel Birding, plus dig out your old copy of The Holy Bible (Manics album, not confirmation present.) www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

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A joy to discuss Manics lyrics as literature laundry list & the criminally underrated glory of Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot with these sweethearts

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Reading this one ahead of the @backlisted.bsky.social podcast event this month at Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road… never been to a live podcast recording before so it’s very exciting! And for one of my favourite authors too 💙📚

Just started Endless Night by Agatha Christie on audio and Hugh Fraser is narrating it - I see why he’s so rated, very nice to listen to and a change from some of the recent incredibly old audio I’ve been listening to from the RNIB with crackling and words being tripped over etc 🤣 #BookSky 💙📚

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New episode up now. Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot, with guest Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social in conversation with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bksy.social. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/215...

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“Not sure I’m going to be that interested in this one” I thought but it’s brilliant! Fascinating & funny & so informative! Loved it!

New episode up now. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with guests Dr Martin Shaw and Dr Laura Varnam recorded live at Foyles Charing Cross Road with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social and a great gaggle of boisterous groundlings. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/214

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Managed to get a hard to find copy of the next @backlisted.bsky.social book (up now on Patreon and will listen to this morning). Most money I think I’ve ever spent on a book! No doubt, someone will reprint it next year for a much lower price, but I couldn’t stand the gap on my shelf for that long.

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Yet another great episode that convinced me to try a book I’d previously had no interest in. (I swear Dr. Laura Varnam is a sorcerer who could probably persuade me to buy the collected works of Ayn Rand if she wanted to.)

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Heartily recommend this ep of continuously excellent podcast @backlisted.bsky.social about Basil Bunting’s ‘Briggflatts’ - an unbelievable poem. Was lucky enough to be at the Newcastle Irish Centre on Bloomsday to hear Tom Pickard talk about Morden Tower and this was the perfect preparatory listen

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The answer, my friend, is Dylan in the wind (and thank you). 🙏 x

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‘Bob Dylan is the answer to all my questions’ - @iammilliam.bsky.social in the locklisted ep on Gawain and the Green Knight - which is why I love @backlisted.bsky.social and why it’s the best podcast on books.

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Very much looking forward to listening to this. Am a bit of a Gawainiac.

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Hwaet! This was a most wondrous episode.

Harken unto our new episode on Gawain and the Green Knight whilst you navigate your way homewards, hoping not to lose your head en route and to arrive back in under a year and a day. @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/214

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Two timely new books delivered today, one about an opinionated media personality whose trenchant views hark back to the 1980s and the other by @rosieisaholt.bsky.social MP. Thank you Rosie! (and Will Hodgkinson).

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This was so brilliant.

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For anyone out there who still thinks Agatha Christie belongs in the 'cosy crime' pigeon-hole, I'm here to tell you that @backlisted.bsky.social, @andrewmale.bsky.social, et al. are there to tell you something you really, really need to know.

If you're in London or thereabouts on July 17 I'll be at Foyles Bookshop recording a @backlisted.bsky.social podcast with @iammilliam.bsky.social, @johnmitchinson.bsky.social & Agatha Christie expert Caroline Crampton. The book we'll be discussing is Christie's brilliant late work, Endless Night.

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New @backlisted.bsky.social! Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on parchment, page, podium and projector, with Dr Martin Shaw Dr Laura Varnam @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social and a live audience at Foyles Charing Cross Road. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/214

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I shall be making a very rare trip into Soho after dark for this, really looking forward to seeing @backlisted.bsky.social in the flesh. www.foyles.co.uk/events/backl...

Backlisted LIVE: Endless Night with Andrew Male and Caroline Cramptonwww.foyles.co.uk The much-loved Backlisted podcast returns to Foyles Charing Cross Road for the third instalment in a very special live series of the show. John and Andy are joined this July by guest speakers

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@backlisted.bsky.social recording about to start.

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Just listened to the excellent @backlisted.bsky.social episode on Hitchhiker's Guide with @gralefrit.bsky.social and @gailrenard.bsky.social, and it would be remiss of me not to mention @iammilliam.bsky.social himself discussing Last Chance to See on my podcast here: www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Andy Miller on Last Chance to Seewww.podbean.com Andy Miller, co-host of the Backlisted podcast and author of The Year of Reading Dangerously, discusses Douglas Adams's Last Chance to See and his own work with me.

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My partner is definitely a Heyer convert after reading Venetia from the @backlisted.bsky.social bookshelf. He’s now on his third one (These Old Shades), and keeps popping in to tell me how bonkers it is. Backlisted, what have you done!