84. Short Stories Edition - Weyward, Magnolia Parks, Divine Rivals & many more!

Tune in to hear spoiler free chats on all of the following:

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

The Night Alphabet - Joelle Taylor

House of Flame & Shadow - Sarah J Maas

Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross

Threadneedle - Cari Thomas

Icebreaker & Wildfire - Hannah Grace

How To Be Somebody Else - Miranda Pountney

Magnolia Parks - Jessa Hastings

The Teacher - Freida McFadden

The Murders At Fleat House - Lucinda Riley

Clairmont - Lesley McDowell

Weyward - Emilia Hart

Today we discuss this novel by Elena Ferrante. All spoiler free as always!

Today's discussion includes chats on all of the following:

Not The End of the World  - Hannah Ritchie

The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams

The Book of Beginnings - Sally Page

This Could Be Everything - Eva Rice

Winter Garden - Kristen Hannah

Piglet - Lottie Hazell

All Girls - Emily Layden

The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward


All spoiler free apart from one partial spoiler when talking about Piglet around the 24-25 minute mark! We couldn't really avoid it!

Our first featured read episode of 2024 is The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.

All chats are spoiler free!

And here we have each of our top three reads from 2023. Have a listen to find out what we chose!

A final round up of our November/December 2023 reads. All spoiler free!

Including:

The Christmas Book Club - Sarah Morgan

One Christmas Eve - Shari Low

Meet me in Central Park - Jo Bartlett

Preloved - Lauren Bravo

The Minute I Saw You - Paige Toon

The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai

Cultish - Amanda Montell

Bunny - Mona Awad

Lemon - Kwon Yeo-Sun

We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman

The Wager - David Grann

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Nick Cave

Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled - Ruby Wax

Madly Deeply - Alan Rickman

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

December's featured read was The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Our first by this author but definitely not our last.

Our thoughts and feelings on the much anticipated sequel to Fourth Wing - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.

CONTAINS SPOILERS!

Here's what we've been reading this month! We have spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin
Bad Fruit - Ella King
Ready Player One - Ernest Kline

This month's spoiler free episode is on Bellies by Nicola Dinan