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Episode image is a detail from a photograph of Signe Hammarsten and Sophia Jansson © Margareta Strömstedt, taken from The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, published by Random House in 2003.
For the 92nd Second Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by passionate, itinerant generalist and creative (on the interior) Isbel James. They talk about skewed perspectives on familiar places, fiction that feels like memoir (and vice versa) and the descriptive power of Robert Louis Stevenson’s writing.
Correction: The photograph that is discussed is, in fact, Tove Jannson’s niece Sophia sitting with her (Sophia’s) grandmother, who was Tove Jannson’s mother.
Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson is also discussed in Page One 189. Another book by Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, is discussed in Page One 16, which features Isbel’s sister Cat James, and in Page One 159, which doesn’t.
Episode released: 2nd August, 2016.
Book Listing:
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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