Why I Really Like This Book

Why I Really Like This Book

These are podcasts about forgotten fiction, for curious readers, and for anyone who likes old books. Sometimes they're stories, sometimes they're not. Most of the authors write in English; and sometimes they don't. But all the books I talk about, I really really like. I hope you will too.

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My name is Kate Macdonald: I'm an English lecturer, and a lifelong browser in second-hand bookshops. I post weekly ten-minute podcasts on a Friday, on the books I really like which I think deserve new readers. You can find out lots more at the Facebook page here, and get these podcasts weekly by subscribing on the iTunes link above.

The music for the podcast intro is by The Tribe Band. Lucy Marsh did the drawing and Matthias Opsomer lettered it. Patrick Belk and Martin Fowler hold my tech safety net.

Questions? Send me a message by mailing me at kate [dot] brussels [at] yahoo [dot] com.

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Sat, 20 October 2012

Stella Gibbons and Cold Comfort Farm - Five Classics of Engish Humour

Great-Aunt Ada once saw something nasty in the woodshed, and has held her family trapped in Cold Comfort Farm ever since. And now Flora Poste comes to rescue them, with common sense, a belief in Vogue, and the certainty that messy living needs to be tidied up. Stella Gibbons' immortal satire mocks pretentiousness, and reassures the meek that they will inherit the farm. For melodramatists everywhere.

Direct download: Stella_Gibbons_and_Cold_Comfort_Farm_-_Five_Classics_of_English_Humour.mp3
Category:always amusing -- posted at: 3:17 PM

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