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Guardian Books podcast: JB Priestley and Javier Marías

by Claire Armitstead, Richard Lea, Tim Maby

As the excitements of the Olympic summer fade into Autumn, our thoughts turn to legacy: is there such a thing as lasting value and how do we honour it? A small Yorkshire publisher is doing just that for the novelist, journalist and playwright JB Priestley. Great Northern Books has already reissued two of his novels. As a third is published, along with his travel book, English Journey, we hear from his son Tom about a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:33am on September 14, 2012