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Daniel Mason, award-winning author and still practicing psychiatrist, discusses the appeal of place and the passing of time, as he talks about his new novel, North Woods, set in New England across 200 years.
Howard Jacobson and Farrah Storr reveal the lure of the digital platform Substack for writers and readers and wonder if it will supercede or enhance the novel.
And as the conference season draws to a close, we look at the lot and the character of the nineteenth century politician in literature.

Presenter Chris Power
Producer Emma Wallace

Book List – Sunday 15 October and Thursday 19 October

North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
A Far Country by Daniel Mason
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
Street Walking by Howard Jacobson
Compendia by S J Watson
Plot Spoiler by Chuck Palahniuk
Greener Pastures by Chuck Palahniuk
Story Club by George Saunders
Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith
The Kureishi Chronicles by Hanif Kureishi
Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattress
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Can you Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens