In this episode Paul, Gwyn and Holly celebrate the 150thanniversary of the publication of Alice Through the Looking Glass. Paul dives down the rabbit hole with Mark Davies author, guide and Oxford local historian to discuss aspects of Lewis Carroll and Alice. You can find out more about Mark’s books here Alice in Waterland and King of Balloons and a link to the Lewis Carroll Society here https://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/
Also in this episode we muse on the joy of bookshops with a shout out to the Ladies Who Londonpodcast and their episode on London Bookshops which you can find here https://www.ladieswholondon.com/post/bookmarking-the-best-bookshops-in-london
One of Gwyn’s favourite bookshops is Troutmarkbooks in Cardiff. You can find the links for crowdfunding to keep Book-ishin Crickhowell open here https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-bookish-on-the-high-street?member=15332081and the link to support the staff at Berwyn Books which burnt down recently here https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-staff-at-berwyn-books
This is the link to the episode playlist with songs inspired by Carroll and Alice https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1dpcHN6KDDidmiSHwAPJo4?si=52b7cc95e0e04694
And finally here are the links to some of the books we talk about in this episode:
Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
Edgar Allan Poe – Short Stories
Margaret Atwood – Handmaids Tale
Robert Tombs – The English and their History
Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug – On Tyranny
Nora Krug – Heimat
Timothy Snyder – Bloodlands and The Red Prince
George Eliot – Middlemarch
