Secret Life of Books

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole

Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.

The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee, an English professor at Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, formerly director of arts at the BBC.
Every week these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden story behind the story: who made it, their clandestine motives, the undeclared stakes, the scandalous backstory and above all the secret, mysterious meanings of books we thought we knew.

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119 - SLoB Goes to the Oscars: Frankenstein vs Hamnet

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Secret Life of Books

Episodios

SLoB Goes to the Oscars: Frankenstein vs Hamnet

Saved from Fire: the Toni Morrison Archives

Toni Morrison 2: Song of Solomon

The Other Bronte Girl: Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Jane Austen's Birthday: why everyone wants to party with Jane

Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights": is the hype worth it?

Wuthering Heights: Is this really the greatest love story of all time?

Frankenstein in Oxford: A Conversation with Richard Ovenden, OBE

Toni Morrison 1: The Bluest Eye

Queens of Crime 4: The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

To See or Not to See? Hamnet tune-up session

Queens of Crime 3: A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

Queens of Crime 2: Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

The Golden Age of Crime with Grantchester's James Runcie

Queens of Crime 1: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers

By George (Eliot) She's Done It! The road to Middlemarch

A SLoB Christmas Cracker

The Women Who Made Jane Austen

Big Cat Theory: William Blake's The Tyger

Henry James 3: Turn of the Screw

Henry James 2: Colm Tóibín on Henry James

Henry James 1: The Portrait of a Lady

Greece Lightnin': My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

American Horror 3: Salem's Lot by Stephen King

American Horror 2: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

American Horror: The Haunting of Hill House

Montaigne pt2: A Montaigne out of a mole hill (with Rowan Tomlinson)

Montaigne pt1: Climb Every Montaigne (with Stephen Greenblatt)

SLoB's Four (literary) weddings and a funeral

Wilkie Collins 2: The Moonstone

BONUS: Jennifer Egan on the Woman in White

Wilkie Collins 1: The Woman in White

SLOB Reads: The Sonnet with Paul Muldoon

The Secret Life of Trains: how rail travel changed fiction - for ever

BONUS: Writing Virginia Woolf's life (with Hermione Lee)

Virginia Woolf 5: The Waves

Virginia Woolf 4: A Room Of One's Own

Virginia Woolf 3: Orlando

BONUS: Reading Mrs Dalloway (with Alexandra Schwartz)

Virginia Woolf 2: To The Lighthouse

BONUS: Virginia Woolf, the not-so-Common Reader (with Alexandra Harris)

Virginia Woolf 1: Mrs Dalloway

Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

The Secret River with Kate Grenville

Keeping Up Appearances with the Pooters: The Diary of A Nobody

The Secret Life of Summer Holidays: sunburns, family arguments and holiday cottages in classic literature

BONUS: Move Over Bridgerton: James Boswell's Big Romance

A Date With Signor Gonorrhea: James Boswell's London Journal 1762

Plague, fire and hanky-panky in Swinging 1660s London: Samuel Pepys' Diary

Breakfast with Jane Austen