The Green Penguin

One visit to Agatha Christie changed everything.

Thank you to my guest, Jules Burt, for sharing his book-collecting experiences and knowledge with us. You can learn more about his collection on his YouTube channel, Jules Burt Collections and Unboxings at youtube.com/@JulesBurt.

My new book, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria, is published in April. To find out more and register for the exclusive pre-order bonus material, visit my website carolinecrampton.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

— Ulysses by James Joyce

— Ariel by André Maurois

— Death on the Borough Council by Josephine Bell

— Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell

— Taken on Trust by Terry Waite

— Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers

— Allen Lane: King Penguin by J.E. Morpurgo

— Penguin Special: Life and Times of Allen Lane by Jeremy Lewis

— Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar Paperback Publishing by Stephen Holland

— The Penguin Story by W.E. Williams

— ‘A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books 1935– c .1951’ by Nicholas Joicey in Twentieth Century British History, 1993

Shedunnit Episodes Mentioned:

— The Nobodies

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