Following the success of Volume One, today Andy Miller launches INVENTORY Vol. 2, D-H via the Backlisted Patreon. Your support is hugely appreciated. www.patreon.com/backlisted

New Christmas episode up now! Asterix and the Roman Agent - and LOADS more Asterix books - with Louie Stowell, Robert Shearman, Una McCormack & Andy Miller. 🎄📚🎅 @robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6mIn...

We have recorded the Christmas Day episode, by Toutatis! 💥 @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social

Andy says: A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via our Patreon. Join as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus lots of other stuff, all while supporting the podcast. @iammilliam.bsky.social This week: the Canterbury Scene pt. one - Kevin Ayers and Caravan. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Andy says: A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, all while supporting the podcast. This week: California by American Music Club. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Shelagh, take a bow. (Shelagh Delaney in Salford, 7th August 1961, photo by Arnold Newman).

Andy says: A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, while supporting the podcast. This week: Caedmon Feel the Noize: spoken word recordings, pt two. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Andy says: a new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, while supporting the podcast. www.patreon.com/backlisted This week: Caedmon Feel the Noize: spoken word recordings, pt one.

Line up our HALO JONES episode for your commute home.

Andy says: A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the Backlisted Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, while supporting the podcast. This week: The Rubáiyát of Marshall Chess: Cadet Records and Cadet/Concept. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Andy says: A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up at Locklistener level and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, all while supporting the podcast. This week: BOG-SHED, FROM THE STUBBLE TO THE RUBBLE. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Andy says: the new INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up at Locklistener level and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, all while supporting the podcast. This week: ‘The B-List: On the absence of Bowie, Beyoncé and Bog-Shed’. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Andy says: a new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up at Locklistener level and you’ll get this plus a bunch of other stuff, all while supporting the podcast. This week: ‘KATE BUSH… RANKED!!’ www.patreon.com/backlisted

Andy says: Another piece of bookish book post. This is coming from W&N in September. I really like Ian Patterson, we must have him back on @backlisted.bsky.social. I’m glad and flattered to see TYoRD in the bibliography too. @jennylord.bsky.social 🙏

Andy says: a new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up at Locklistener level and you’ll get this plus a lot of other stuff, while supporting the podcast. This week: 'Orange Juice' by Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Andy has just published a bonus instalment of Inventory inspired by Brian Wilson, who died this week. It’s available to ALL subscribers to the Backlisted Patreon, at whatever level. Sign up now for free to read it. The SMiLE you send out returns to you. 🙏 www.patreon.com/backlisted

And with alt text. Our new Summer Reading episode will be with you tomorrow. In the meantime, here is the message we sent to subscribers last week. We would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone for their support since then: you are the best. 🙏

Thank you, Nick. He’s OK. He posted this on his own account last week.

ERRATUM: Rob Cowen is the author of The North Road, the forthcoming book discussed by @johnmitchinson.bsky.social on this ‘Winter Reading’ episode.

Only 48 hours until the two Christmas Day specials that really matter.

Two Christmas specials being recorded next door to one another. (Photo: Tess)

And the Author of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards is… Sally Rooney!

We seem to be on the green carpet at the Irish Book Awards DESPITE THERE BEING NO PODCAST PRIZE.

We are in London recording the next episode. Look! (Photo c/o Tess)

And here are the jackets of the books we’re discussing on this episode. open.spotify.com/episode/4ohr...

If you’re at WOMAD this weekend, Nicky, Andy and John will be at Worlds of Words on Sunday morning at 11.15am, where they’ll be chatting about favourite old books and how backlist is the new frontlist. See you there, readers!

Huge thanks to everyone who came to Foyles last night for the podcast recording, not least our guest Alex Michaelides. We had such a good time and @birchos.bsky.social confirms it will make a great show. We are already looking forward to next month, hope you are too! A, J & N x

'Also by Anne Sexton'.

In our coffee table books special, we cover volumes on, variously: British folklore; Coventry Cathedral; assassinations of the 20th century; imaginary Parisian bookshops; letters of note; British jazz LPs 1960-1975; and cheese. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/207...