Blank Page Book Club

In this new episode, John, Alan and Jess discuss B. S. Johson's playful and experimental novel Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973). Afterwards we start chatting about avant-garde or experimental fiction in general...

In this episode, Jess, Gemma and Alan discuss Andrew Michael Hurley's award-winning debut novel The Loney (2015), described on the jacket as a "masterful excursion into terror". Is it? Find out! Along the way we also find time to chat about the likes of M. R. James, Stephen King and other writers of the creepy, supernatural and spooky...

In which Alan, Jess, Gemma and John discuss P. G. Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters and along the way chat about the British class system, Stephen King, Brideshead Revisited, J. K. Rowling, grammar schools and being born at room temperature.

In which Alan, John and Jen discuss Helen Macdonald's Costa Award-winning memoir H Is For Hawk (2014), as well as a slew of other autobiographical writings, both real and imagined. Along the way we chat about Bob Dylan, Carrie Brownstein, Edmund White, John Porcellino and Kanye West. From John Porcellino's Perfect Example: http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380359337i/710397.png

The first Blank Page Book Club podcast, in which Alan, Jess and Jen discuss The Catcher In The Rye and books of our adolescences (which turns out to have a lot to do with Thom Yorke and Richey Edwards....)