Professor Kate Williams
Season 4, Episode 15
The Costa Book of the Year is announced this week, so we’re joined by the chair of the judging panel, writer and historian Kate Williams. She chats with Robin and Josie about judging the prize, great sci-fi books, history’s great diaries and the perils of historical accuracy in fiction.
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Reading List
Kate recommends:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Dallas Buyer’s Club by Walker Daniels
England’s Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
The Hitler Diaries forged by Konrad Kujau
The Storms of War by Kate Williams
The Edge of the Fall by Kate Williams
Robin recommends:
Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs
The work of JG Ballard
The work of Kingsley Amis
The work of Margaret Atwood
Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Kenneth Williams and edited by Russell Davies
The Orton Diaries by Joe Orton
Hitler’s Table Talk edited by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club: One Man’s Quest to Uncover the Books That Taste Forgot by Robin Ince
Wild Oats by Philip Larkin
Josie recommends:
The work of Thomas Chatterton
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