15: Reading In Isolation Diving In

Louise and Virginia discuss the strange new world we find ourselves in and are surprised by their responses to the situation. They recommend lots of books about epidemics, pandemics, isolation and adversity, for those so inclined. They discuss the books they’ve been reading, the first half of Middlemarch, The Stella Prize for Fiction shortlist, and they review two books from the shortlist, as well as discussing a couple of things they’ve been diving into.




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Instagram @diving_in_podcast
Virginia’s Instagram @virginia_reads
Louise’s Instagram @louise_cooks_and_reads


Song ‘Diving In’ – original music and lyrics written and performed by Laura Adeline – https://linkt.ree/llauraadeline
Podcast sound production and editing by Andy Maher.
Graphics by Orla Larkin - create@werkshop.com.au




Books
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek
The Island by Victoria Hislop
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Golden Age by Joan London
Nella Last’s War
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A Single Thread by Tracey Chevalier
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel


The Mercies by Karen Millwood Hargrave, 2020, Picador, Pan Macmillan
Three Apples Fell From the Sky by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa C Hayden.
Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass
Middlemarch by George Eliot




The Stella Prize shortlist
https://thestellaprize.com.au/
The Yield by Tara June Winch
There was still Love by Favel Parrett
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Diving Into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
See What you Made me Do? By Jess Hill
Here Until August by Josephine Rowe


Television
Housewife, 48


Podcasts
Coronacast with Dr Norman Swan and Teagan Taylor
Hamish Blake’s Instagram account @hamishblakeshotz
“Room for One More?”