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Taking a few minutes away from recording Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about a particular kind of convalescent literature.

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More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

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\\u201cUnlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don\\u2019t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It\\u2019s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don\\u2019t have leaders./Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn\\u2019t have.\\u201d from Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett.

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You can read about Terry Pratchett\\u2019s Discworld Series on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld

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The first Page One In Review episode, which is Page One 157, was recorded on the 18th of March, 2020.

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Ripley\\u2019s Game by Patricia Highsmith is discussed in Page One 76 and Page One 175, Germany by Neil MacGregor is discussed in Page One 177, The Cloudspotter\\u2019s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is discussed in Page One 27 and Page One 163, and Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James is discussed in Page One 36 and Page One 165.

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Also mentioned in this episode is London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. Another book by Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, is discussed in Page One 121.

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And there are mentions of books by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P. D. James, The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks and the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler (of which Imago is the third book).

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Other books by Terry Pratchett mentioned in this episode are The Colour Of Magic, Equal Rites, Mort, Reaper Man and Weird Sisters.

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Episode image is a detail from the cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, published in 1993 by Corgi Books; cover illustration by Josh Kirby.

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Episode recorded: 9th September, 2020.

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Book listing:

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Small Gods by Terry Pratchett