Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens

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Chris Power talks to Jane Smiley about her new book A Dangerous Business, set in 1850s Monterey when women's lives were not only constrained but often at risk. Luke Roberts helped to uncover a forgotten gay novel from the 1960s. He retraces poet Mark Hyatt's footsteps in Soho. Plus, Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens discuss creatively drawing on marginal - and radical - LGBTQ voices from the 19th century in two exciting fiction debuts. Book List – Sunday 15 January and Thursday 19 January A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley Some Luck by Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens The New Life, by Tom Crewe Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner