The Book Case

Scott Preston Writes a UK Western


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This week, a dark and funny tale of sheep farming in Rural England that reads like an American Western by Cormac McCarthy. Sound a little strange? Well, it is. But it is also compelling, suspenseful, complex and packed with great characters. Scott Preston is a debut novelist, and this book, The Borrowed Hills, may defy a two sentence description but it’s worth the read. For our bookstore this week we talk to Whitelam books in Reading, Massachusetts, who tell us about what they did to bring in folks on Indpendent Bookstore Day. Join us.


Books mentioned in this week's episode:

  • The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
  • Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  • Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
  • The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
  • Shane by Jack Schaefer
  • Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
  • True Grit by Charles Portis
  • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  • The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Independent People by Halldór Laxness
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
  • The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
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