Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.
The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee, an English professor at Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, formerly director of arts at the BBC.
Every week these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden story behind the story: who made it, their clandestine motives, the undeclared stakes, the scandalous backstory and above all the secret, mysterious meanings of books we thought we knew.
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Sophie has been a professor in the English Department at Princeton University since 2002. She's currently Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Sydney. She's written the historical novel The Scandal of the Season (Scribner/Chatto); Making Waste (Princeton UP) and The Barbarous Feast (forthcoming Princeton UP). She's given talks and appeared at writers' festivals worldwide.