Rachel Bentley and Madz Warley return for the second installment of “Book’d & Busy: A Lit Life On Campus”, the official podcast of the English Literature and Creative Writing Degrees at York St John University!
In this episode, Rachel and Madz are again joined by the Course Lead for English Literature at York St John University, Dr Adam James Smith, to share the books that made them.
Listen to the episode here!
Which books were the gateway to Rachel, Madz and Adam living their best LIT lives?
In the second half of the episode, Rachel and Madz – both in the third year of their respective Creative Writing and English Literature degrees – share plans for the dissertation projects they’re about to begin, and quiz Adam on what his own dissertation was about when he was a student.
In this episode, we have been reading:
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkin Reid
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
- Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
- Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
- Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
- Gig by Simon Armitage