• 9. Augustown & Home Cooking

  • Sep 12 2023
  • Length: 37 mins
  • Podcast

9. Augustown & Home Cooking

  • Summary

  • After last month’s crowd-pleasers, Bobby and Pandora sink their teeth into two very different, equally meaty books. In Augustown by Kei Miller, a “dismal little valley” in Jamaica becomes a boiling pot of tension when a young boy’s dreadlocks are cut off. And in Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, the boiling pots are a little more literal – and Pandora shares an all-timer of a kitchen horror story.


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    Books/articles mentioned:

    Augustown by Kei Miller

    Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin

    The Pisces and Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

    When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà

    Good Material and Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

    When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

    Big Fish by Daniel Wallace

    Life of Pi by Yann Martel

    Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

    Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

    The Bread The Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini

    Heartburn by Nora Ephron

    Midnight Chicken by Ella Risbridger

    Takeaway by Angela Hui


    PRE-ORDER SMALL HOURS by Bobby Palmer


    Augustown by Kei Miller Review by Natasha Tripney for The Observer


    “Augustown”: A Novel of the Sacred and the Profane in Jamaica by Laura Miller for The New Yorker


    Scalding oil, racist prank calls and endless ‘lid duty’: growing up in a Chinese restaurant by Angela Hui for The Guardian


    Find out more about the ShelterBox Book Club


    Books for episode 10:

    The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

    Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume


    Sound by Joel Grove and production by Pandora Sykes


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