Agatha Christie, Gwen Bristow, Bruce Manning and reading morality – welcome to episode 136 of Tea or Books?!

In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether or not we take moral instruction from the books we read – does reading make us better people? In the second half, we compare two very similarly plotted books – And Then There Are None by Agatha Christie and The Invisible Host by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning. Many thanks to Susan for suggesting this (and sorry for forgetting your name when we recorded!)

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FYI Hargreaves gets very noisy in this episode!

The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Stasiland by Anna Funder

Mrs Dalloway: A Biography of the Novel by Mark Hussey

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior

Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson

Emma by Jane Austen

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

How To Know A Person by David Brooks

Ghosted by Nancy French

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

Walkable City by Jeff Speck

Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Pamela Smith

Brink of Being by Julia Bueno

Shaun Bythell

A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence

Catherine Carter by Pamela Hansford Johnson