This week, a dark and funny tale of sheep farming in Rural England that reads like an American Western by Cormac McCarthy. Sound a little strange? Well, it is. But it is also compelling, suspenseful, complex and packed with great characters. Scott Preston is a debut novelist, and this book, The Borrowed Hills, may defy a two sentence description but it’s worth the read. For our bookstore this week we talk to Whitelam books in Reading, Massachusetts, who tell us about what they did to bring in folks on Indpendent Bookstore Day. Join us.

Books mentioned in this week's episode:

The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

Shane by Jack Schaefer

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

True Grit by Charles Portis

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Independent People by Halldór Laxness

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

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