A Dance to the Music of Time

by Anthony Powell

Recommended in 4 interviews and reading lists

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1. George MonbiotInterview

   Middlemarch by George Eliot, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy…

2. Ramsey CampbellInterview

   I’m halfway through the epic A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, and am delighted to find there are still masterpieces I haven’t previously discovered. To be honest, I bought it because I found a four-volume set in a second-hand bookshop (the kind of place I virtually never emerge from emptyhanded). I’d…

3. Tom PriceInterview

   Don’t die without reading A Dance To The Music of Time by Anthony Powell. Also make sure you read Atonement by Ian McEwan. And all of the Wallander books. And every single Lee Child book including the most amazing meta-Lee Child book Reacher Said Nothing by Andy Martin – it’s like a DVD commentary of the process of a…

4. Tracy WiseInterview

   Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet – tied with Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time series

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