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The New Torchlight List: Best Books&Authors from 2016-11-06T09:40
It's Jim's final countdown and he rates the authors from the very best, through to those he wants to read more of, promising authors, those not quite good enough, the unpromising - and the just pla...
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The New Torchlight List - Asia and the Middle East from 2016-10-30T08:40
This chapter of The New Torchlight List takes in a big geographical area and a variety of cultures.
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The New Torchlight List: Africa from 2016-10-23T08:40
Jim agrees with Wallace's love for Disgrace, by South African writer J.M. Coetzee - though Jim says Coetzee's "not brilliant". He describes the Cairo trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib M...
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The New Torchlight List: New Zealand&Australia from 2016-10-14T11:00
Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss Australasian literature. Wallace takes on Jim over Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries - too long, says Jim. Not so, says Wallace. Jim says Catton can write but sh...
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The New Torchlight List: Europe from 2016-10-09T09:40
Jim Flynn tells Wallace Chapman that Italian Umberto Eco's best work is The Name of the Rose but this comes with a warning as Eco "loves to demonstrate his learning. The plot is interrupted by long...
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The New Torchlight List: Ireland from 2016-09-30T11:00
Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss modern Irish literature. Jim rates John Banville's "wonderful style", but is less enamoured with John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The sex in Edna O...
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The New Torchlight List: Britain from 2016-09-23T12:05
Some of Jim's favourite writers feature in this episode - V.S. Naipaul and Kazuo Ishiguro who, he says, is "perhaps the greatest novelist of our generation. His work is going to make him one of few...
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The New Torchlight List: South America from 2016-09-18T08:40
Jim and Wallace discuss South American writers, including the politics and the passion reflected in the great writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - recommending the memorable Love in the Time of Chol...
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The New Torchlight List: North America from 2016-09-11T10:03
Jim Flynn discusses North American authors and tells Wallace Chapman that everyone must read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. He also highly rates Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, but Wallace and Jim a...
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The New Torchlight List: The Need to Read from 2016-09-04T08:40
Jim Flynn is a world expert on human intelligence, and the author of many ground-breaking books on intelligence, philosophy and politics. He came from a poor family and owes all his success to read...
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