Shelf Life

Fleur Macdonald

The first thing I do in anyone's house is have a look at their bookshelf. There's nothing more revealing - bar perhaps the medicine cabinet.

I'm your resident bookcase analyst. And you're listening to Shelf Life, the new podcast where I go through the keyhole to examine the bookshelves of the bold, the beautiful and the bookish - and find out what their selection says about them.

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Shelf Life: Nicholas Bowling

Shelf Life: Nicholas Bowling

Nicholas Bowling is a Costa-shortlisted author, bookseller and former Classics teacher.Interests include Norse mythology, dead people, writing.Find him on Twitter: @thenickbowlingA reading list:His own books Witchborn, In the Shadow of Heroes, Song of the Far Isles and The Undying of Obedience Wellrest. Find out more here.Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, Tales of Norse Mythology by H. A. Guerber, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke; Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Dog of the South by Charles Portis, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and anything by Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf, Homer.Shelf Life is presented and produced by Fleur Macdonald; exec-produced by Melissa Fitzgerald; while the music is by Me for Queen - thank you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Shelf Life: Nicholas Bowling

Shelf Life: Nicholas Bowling

Nicholas Bowling is a Costa-shortlisted author, bookseller and former Classics teacher.Interests include Norse mythology, dead people, writing.Find him on Twitter: @thenickbowlingA reading list:His own books Witchborn, In the Shadow of Heroes, Song of the Far Isles and The Undying of Obedience Wellrest. Find out more here.Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, Tales of Norse Mythology by H. A. Guerber, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke; Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Dog of the South by Charles Portis, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and anything by Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf, Homer.Shelf Life is presented and produced by Fleur Macdonald; exec-produced by Melissa Fitzgerald; while the music is by Me for Queen - thank you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shelf Life: Teo van den Broeke

Shelf Life: Teo van den Broeke

Teo van den Broeke is a style journalist and author. He's also editorial director for Soho House. Sign up for his newsletter too.A reading list:His own book The Closet, Toast by Nigel Slater, How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb, Glorious Rock Bottom by Bryony Gordon, Pour Me by AA Gill, Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton.Inside Vogue by Alexandra Shulman, The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake, The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley, Anna by Amy OdellAnd anything by Douglas Stuart, Donna Tart, Hillary Mantel, Roald Dahl, Rosa Rankin-Gee, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwen, William Boyd, Alan Hollinghurst, Hanya Yanagihara, Philip Pullman, Toni Morrison etc. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shelf Life: Tomiwa Owolade

Shelf Life: Tomiwa Owolade

Tomiwa Owolade is a writer, critic and author of This is Not America.Find him on Twitter: @tomowoladeA reading list:His own book: This is Not AmericaInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonBlack and British by David OlusogaThe Black Prince by Iris MurdochRabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest by John UpdikeThe War Against Cliché by Martin AmisModels: Attract Women Through Honesty by Mark MansonAnd of course anything by Christopher Hitchens, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison etc. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.