A Novel Review Book Podcast

To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com One of the greatest modernist writers writing a novel about a poet that lives for centuries. While living for centuries might seem the most fantastically odd part of this novel, it isn’t because at the halfway point Orlando goes to sleep one night a male, and the next morning wakes up a female. All the while the story is being to...

To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com There is a story somewhere in the drug and alcohol fuelled miasma of Joan Didion’s ‘Play it as it Lays.’ Overarching, subtle and wonderfully complex, the story achieves a rare depth against the backdrop of a shallow society as Maria struggles to navigate Hollywood in the 60s. Some of the books and authors discussed in this episod...

To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Emily Bronte is the literary thorn in my side. Wuthering Heights withered on the page for me, but her language and writing style sparkled and today, one of the jewels from her arsenal of poetry. Plead for Me, explores the spiralling nature when decisions you make for the better, start to fall apart and make you question yourself....

To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Antoine de Saint-Exupéry childish classic, The Little Prince, is much more than a fun children's story. Combining personal suffering with philosophical beliefs, this is a novella that one can come back too, time and time again and still unearth small intimate details that feed into the larger story.    Some of the books and autho...

To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” took the world by a storm. It was published in 2006, won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2007 and was a film by 2009, and yet, not to sound like a broken record or a lover of literature, the book is unmatched. McCarthy’s brutal and heartbreaking story, is as vivid and as shattering on the page, a...