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Helen Bain on The Daffodil Days, Sylvia Plath & the Right Pub | Suzi's Book Bag
Helen Bain discusses The Daffodil Days, her brilliant debut novel about Sylvia Plath's peaceful life in Devon.
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Jack Jewers, Seething Lane | Suzi's Book Bag
Diarist Samuel Pepys solves dastardly crimes in Jack Jewers' latest historical thriller, 'Seething Lane', set in the world of Restoration theatre.
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Scarlett Thomas joins Suzi to talk about brain-bending fiction, literary thrillers, ethnobotany, Nietzsche and the pleasures of strange ideas.
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Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson returns to the Bag to talk about his revelatory new book, 'How to Live Like a Stoic'.
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Baggies 2025 and the year in review
Suzi looks back on the year that was.
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Holbein, England and a changed visual culture
Elizabeth Goldring joins Suzi for a deep historical conversation.
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Sexing up the haunted house
Leon Craig discusses her eerie debut, The Decadence.
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Suzi Feay is a London-based literary journalist with a particular interest in fiction and poetry. She has written for The Guardian and the Financial Times, works as a TV and radio critic for FT Weekend, and teaches journalism to creative writing students at Brunel University.
Her stage and print interviews include leading novelists, poets, performers and cultural figures, from Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and Martin Amis to Sarah Waters, Barbara Kingsolver and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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Life lessons from a master
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Be More Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt, performance, celebrity and theatrical craft.
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Deserts of Vast Eternity
Ghost stories, odd hauntings and Lena Valencia's Mystery Lights.
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The Guy from Villiers Street
George Villiers, royal power and Benjamin Woolley's history.
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