A Novel Review Book Podcast

A Novel Review Book Podcast

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  • Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry | The World's Most Literary Hangover

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    Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is a literary experience. Set in 1938 Mexico, this masterpiece follows an alcoholic British consul stumbling through love, politics and personal ruin, all beneath the watchful gaze of two volcanoes. Is it a tragic meditation on self-destruction or just the world’s most complicated hangover? Let’s review this notoriously difficult classic.

     

    Painting: Today I painted a volcano

     

    Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

     

    • Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

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      11 min
    • The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery | A Puppet Narrates Her Life

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      Hollay Ghadery’s The Unravelling of Ou is a strange, funny and deeply moving novel about motherhood, memory, identity and survival with a sock puppet telling us all. When Minoo’s daughter demands Ecology Paul disappear if Minoo would like a relationship with her, a lifetime of secrets begins to unravel.

       

      Painting: Today I painted a sock puppet

       

      Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

       

      • The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery
      • The Island of Missing Tree’s by Elif Shafak

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        11 min
      • The Wall by Marlen Haushofer | The World Ends. She Has to Milk the Cow.

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        What if the world ended, but nobody told you why? Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall is a haunting blend of dystopian fiction, survival story and philosophical mystery. Today I explore isolation, nature, animals, civilisation and the strange domesticity of apocalypse… and ask what remains when humanity disappears.

         

        Painting: Today I painted some mountians

         

        Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

         

        • The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
        • I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

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          Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q

          Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908

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          17 min
        • The Collector by John Fowles | When Love Becomes Possession

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          What happens when a lonely man wins the lottery, buys a secluded house, and decides the one thing missing from his collection is a woman? John Fowles’ The Collector is part psychological thriller, part Gothic nightmare, and part very uncomfortable thought experiment about love, possession and freedom. And, rather inconveniently, the inspiration for it gets even creepier.

           

          Painting: Today I painted a butterfly

           

          Some of the books and authors and content discussed in this episode include:

           

          • The Collector by John Fowles
          • Bela Bartok Herzog Blaubarts Burg Duke Bluebeard's Castle
          • TALES FROM THE PAST: The Garden Secret, Lewisham
          • On Collecting by Christopher Skelton-Foord
          • Design and Meaning in The Ebony Tower by Thomas Loe

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            22 min
          • Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson | Malazan Review

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            Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates doesn’t so much invite you into its world as drag you behind a galloping horse and demand that you keep up. The second Malazan Book of the Fallen novel is bigger, darker and considerably less interested in holding your hand, throwing assassins, empires, gods, ancient grudges and one spectacularly brutal desert crossing into the same literary blender. Yet beneath all the bloodshed and battlefield chaos is something surprisingly human: a story about loyalty, suffering, vengeance and what people are willing to endure for one another. And just when you think you’ve figured out where Erikson is taking you, he cheerfully sets fire to the map.

             

            Painting: Today I painted a crow against a red sun landscape

             

            Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

             

            • Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
            • Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
            • Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson
            • Hannibal by Livy

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              Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven

              Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q

              Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908

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              21 min
            • William - an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton | Forgotten Women of Literature

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              Few novels puncture patriotic certainty with quite the elegance of William – An Englishman. In this episode, I wander through Cicely Hamilton's quietly devastating World War I novel, where satire, social observation, and unfortunate timing expose the absurdities of English life and what it mean to be ‘English’. A forgotten classic that remains uncomfortably modern.

              Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

              • William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

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                12 min
              • Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo | Ghosts, Memory, and the Haunted Past

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                A haunting novel where ghosts whisper, memories return, and every silence echoes with unresolved longing. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo uncovers haunted landscapes, fractured time, and unforgettable voices, revealing how the past refuses burial.

                 

                Painting: Today I painted a skull under Pedro Paramo’s hat

                 

                Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

                 

                • Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

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                  Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven

                  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q

                  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908

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                  12 min
                • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and the loneliness epidemic

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                  In a world where Artificial Friends are needed to sustain and nurture human relationships A.I is not the problem but rather, the result of a larger issue. Only a world that is socially adrift and suffering under the weight of a loneliness epidemic would reply on such a technology to try mimic genuine feeling and relation. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, “Klara and the Sun” explore this society where relations are fractured and people struggle to know each other and themselves.

                   

                  Painting: Today I painted the sun

                   

                  Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

                   

                  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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                    Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven

                    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q

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                    15 min
                  • The Strange Journey of a Coat: Three Stories, One Human Anxiety

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                    What connects Gogol's The Overcoat, Seán O'Faoláin's The Fur Coat, and Vladimir Voinovich's The Fur Hat? In this episode, I explore how three stories from different countries, cultures, and historical periods share a remarkably similar narrative structure. Through coats, hats, and other items of clothing, these writers examine identity, status, dignity, and the human desire for recognition. From Tsarist Russia to postwar Ireland and the Soviet Union, the same anxieties continue to shape human experience.

                    Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

                    • The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
                    • The Fur Hat by Sean o Faolain
                    • The Fur Hat by Vladimir Voinovich

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                      Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908

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                      17 min
                    • 5 GREAT BOOKS under 200 pages long

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                      The Goldilocks book: not too long, not too short - just enough time to leave a lasting punch. In this episode, I explore great books under 200 pages: compact stories packed with depth, emotion, and unforgettable ideas. Across a wide range of genres, these books give both the author and the reader enough space to truly sink their teeth into a world, a character, or a question, before pulling you back out again wanting more. Proof that a great book doesn’t need hundreds of pages to stay with you long after the final line.

                      Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

                       

                      • I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
                      • Class Trip by Emanuel Carrere
                      • The Moustache by Emanuel Carrere
                      • The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. le Guin
                      • Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
                      • Earwig by B Catling
                      • Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
                      • The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery

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                        Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q

                        Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908

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                        17 min

                      About A Novel Review Book Podcast

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                      Hello and welcome to A Novel Review podcast series.
                      Through this podcast Seamus will tackle the endless world of literature, one book at a time!

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