This Months Interview
John Micklewright is professor emeritus at University College London, an economist working on poverty and inequality with a number of books on these subjects – but now turning to travel writing. His earlier posts included a dozen years working in Italy – in Florence – and a spell with the UN. He now lives in Winchester.
This Months Books were:
- The Opening Country by John Micklewright
- The Aristocracy of Talent by Adrian Woolridge
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
- Summer at LBSB by Jenny Colgan
- The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
- The Café by the Sea (2016) by Jenny Colgan
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
What’s Coming Up
- Girl A by Abigail Dean (pb)
- Spider Woman by Lady Hale
- The Magician by Colm Tobin
- Brothers in Arms by James Holland
Suzie’s backlisted, with extract from:
Call for the Dead John le Carre
A new edition of Talking Books is broadcast on the third Monday of the month at 8pm on Petersfield’s Shine Radio. It’s repeated at many other times during the month.
