* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk./shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)ġ4:25 - All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell. Bibliographic record and links to related information. In addition, Andy has been reading Hayley Campbell's fascinating All the Living and the Dead (Raven Books), which he describes as "a work of true rigour mortis" while John digs enthusiastically into Villager (Unbound), the new novel from writer and former Backlisted guest Tom Cox. Sample text for De profundis / Oscar Wilde preface by Richard Ellmann notes by Jason Tougaw. We discuss the work's convoluted publication history, Wilde's posthumous reputation and his ongoing relevance in the 21st century. It has been described by Colm Tóibín as 'one of the greatest love letters ever written' it is also Wilde's most powerful testament of the sacred duty of the artist as he conceived it. Our guest is Stephen Fry, writer, actor and polymath, who last week joined John and Andy in person to discuss Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, the essay addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas 'from the depths' of Wilde's incarceration in Reading Gaol in 1897.
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