The Torchlight List

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• Jim Flynn - Africa

  19 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. Africa: Alan Paton - Cry, The Beloved Country, Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart & A Man of the People, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow… Audio

• Jim Flynn - America

  6 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. America: Dos Passos: USA; Gore Vidal: Burr, 1876, Lincoln, Empire, Hollywood, The Golden Age; Bruce Catton trilogy: Mr Lincoln's Army, Glory Road… Audio

• Jim Flynn - Central America

  11 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. America and Central America: Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller; The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Power and the Glory & Our Man in… Audio

• Jim Flynn - China

  19 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. China: Jung Chang - Wild Swans, Wang Lan - The Blue and the Black, Yiyun Li - The Vagrants, Wang Shuo - Please Don't Call Me Human. Audio

• Jim Flynn- England

  13 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. England: Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities & David Copperfield; Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall; Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim; George Orwell -… Audio

• Jim Flynn - England

  14 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. England: Rudyard Kipling - Kim; A.H. Farrar-Hockley - The Somme; Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong; William Cowper (poet); Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach… Audio

• Jim Flynn - France

  17 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books: France: Victor Hugo - Les Miserables; Emile Zola - The Kill; Gustave Flaubert - Madam Bovary; Albert Camus - The Plague; Frederick Forsyth - The Day… Audio

• Jim Flynn - Germany

  18 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. Germany: The Loyal Subject (or Man of Straw), by Heinrich Mann, The Magic Mountain, and Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann, Defying Hitler, by… Audio

• Jim Flynn - India

  21 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. India: Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses & Midnight's Children, Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy, V.S. Naipaul - India: An Area of Darkness & India: A… Audio

• Jim Flynn - Middle East

  21 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. Middle East: V.S. Naipaul - Among the Belivers : An Islamic Journey & Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples, Robert Fisk -… Audio

• Jim Flynn - South America

  12 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. South America: San Louis Ray, by Thornton Wilder Bridge; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas-Llosa; Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life… Audio

• Jim Flynn - Russia

  18 Jan 2011

  The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books. Russia: The Seagull, by Anton Chekov, War and Peace, & Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Family Moskat, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dead Souls, by… Audio

• Ideas for 12 August 2012: Jim Flynn

  12 Aug 2012

  Jim Flynn is arguably New Zealand’s foremost moral philosopher. His pioneering work on IQs has changed the way we think about intelligence. Professor Flynn reflects on his life and influences and… Audio