Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, printed in Breinigsville, PA, on the 10th March, 2016 (tracking label: BVOW06s1428100316).

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, printed in Breinigsville, PA, on the 10th March, 2016 (tracking label: BVOW06s1428100316).

Joining Charles Adrian for the 112th Second Hand Book Factory is writer and teaching assistant Jenny Adamthwaite. They talk about the possibilities afforded by magical realism, the joy and pain of nostalgia and the creeping horror of forced inactivity.

The Family Tree, which is mentioned a few times during the episode, is a podcast written and produced by Jenny and her partner Dave Pickering in which Charles Adrian plays the Reverend Philip Beech. More information about it can be found here. Dave Pickering is featured in Page One 82.

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is also discussed in Page One 64.

An article by Aminatta Forna on the book world’s obsession with labels and identity can be found here.

Another book by Aminatta Forna, The Memory Of Love, is discussed in Page One 32 and Page One 164.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is also discussed in Page One 16.

Episode released: 8th August, 2017.

 

Book listing:

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

 

Links:

The Family Tree

Page One 82

Page One 64

Aminatta Forna: don’t judge a book by its author

Page One 32

Page One 164

Page One 16

Charles Adrian