We had a lovely online session on 13th June 2020 discussing books, podcasts, radio shows, and music with a panel of authors who would have been appearing in person at Monty Lit Fest 2020 if lockdown hadn’t interrupted all our plans!
Hosted by our Chair, Sarah Morris, our panel consisted of Radio Producer Steve Doherty and authors Julia Forster, Alix Nathan, and Mike Parker, and with the help of our audience and panel we have compiled the following list of recommendations for your reading and listening pleasure!
Titles are listed in alphabetical order by author, links for books are to GoodReads so you can read the blurb etc. and then purchase from your favourite book store – or search your local library catalogue and put a hold on the title ready for when your library re-opens!
Fiction
Bloody Eisteddfod by Myfanwy Alexander
We Rule The Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett
The Emperor’s Babe by Bernadine Evaristo
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
What a Way to Go by Julia Forster
High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson
Fool’s Sanctuary by Jennifer Johnston
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Blindness by José Saramago (translated by Giovanni Pontiero)
Seven for a Secret by Mary Webb
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas – read by Richard Burton
All books by Jane Austen
All books by Islwyn Ffowc Ellis
Non-Fiction
The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
Last Curtsey by Fiona MacCarthy
The Nanny State Made Me by Stuart Maconie
Pies & Prejudice by Stuart Maconie
Cider with Roadies by Stuart Maconie
For Crying Out Loud! by David Mitchell (Chester Town Crier)
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
On the Red Hill by Mike Parker
A View of Old Montgomeryshire by Pauline Phillips
Life in a Welsh Countryside by Alwyn D. Rees
Negative Capability by Michele Roberts
How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford
Podcasts & Radio
Bravo Two Charlies – BBC Radio Comedy Show
Where Should We Begin? by Esther Perel