Katrine Marçal

Book Shambles

This week on Book Shambles Josie and Robin are joined by the Swedish journalist Katrine Marçal to talk about her new book Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men. They chat about how this means we had a man on the moon before we had suitcases with wheels and how electric cars are ‘just for girls’.

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Reading List

Books recommended this week include:

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine Marçal

Animal by Sara Pascoe

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Dune by Frank Herbert

Circe by Madeline Miller

Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

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