Joining John and Andy for this episode this are novelist Marie Phillips and novelist, screenwriter and poet Joe Dunthorne. The main book discussed is Gerard Reve's debut novel De Avonden aka The Evenings, which caused a sensation when published in the Netherlands in 1947 and is now considered a classic. In the words of Herman Koch, it may be 'the funniest, most exhilarating novel about boredom ever written'. Reve was only 24; he went on to have a long, successful and frequently scandalous career but only a handful of his books have been translated into English. Also in this episode John digs Bella Bathurst's new book Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land and Andy surveys Landscapes of Detectorists and finds some prose to treasure.

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