Books for Breakfast

4: Cities, languages, elegies; Philip Davison


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This week we console ourselves by looking at books about people and places, our Toaster Challenge guest is Philip Davison whose novel Quiet City has recently been published by Liberties Press, and we delve into Julie O'Callaghan's new book of poetry Magnum Mysterium.

Other books mentioned:

Jan Morris, Among the Cities,
Alasdair Reid, Inside Out and Outside In
Jan Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal
Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
Gabriel Garcia Marques, Love in the Time of Cholera
Toaster Challenge choice: Nicholson Baker, A Box of Matches

Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.

Art work by Freya Sirr

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