Summary: In the first of a new podcast series, Rob Chilver and Kate Neilan discuss reinventions - from authors reinventing our favourite characters, to bringing back some of our family favourites... In this episode, Rob and Kate discuss William Boyd's new James Bond novel, Solo; Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, Sebastian Faulks homage to P.G. Woodhouse; Terry Pratchett's Dickensian Dodger; and a new Christmas classic, The Snowman and the Snowdog You can also download the discussion as a podcast via iTunes. Rob works as a senior bookseller at a university branch of Waterstones. He’s a big fan of crime and thrillers as well as American literature, which he studied at UEA and the University of Kent. His favourite books are vary from Carter Beats The Devil and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, to The Day of the Jackal. Kate is a Waterstones customer and secondary school teacher, who reads like her life depends on it. She’ll read almost anything, but particularly loves cold crime, good quality sci-fi and fantasy, as well as Young Adult fiction. She studied English Literature at Durham, where she wrote her dissertation on girls and women in Children’s Fiction.
