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S1E6 Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet has stayed with me ever since I first read it — a story so tender, so exquisitely imagined, it felt like it settled into my bones. With the new film adaptation about to…
Bitesize episode - A Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney and Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
A reflective exploration of Intermezzo and Kairos - the pause that gives the meaning and the moment that matters. In this solo episode, Christina shares insights on how timing and intervals shape our…
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Christina sit downs with Ang for a candid conversation about what it means to live on the margins - socially, physically, and politically. From the realities of housing insecurity to the quiet…
Bitesize Episode: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
The non~negotiable superpower! This book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why…
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for July 2025An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for…
The Bitesize Book Review - The Book Club by CJ Cooper
Can you trust the woman next door? The book club was her idea, of course - Alice's. It was her way into our group. A chance to get close. I knew from the day she arrived that she couldn't be trusted.…
The Bitesize Book Review: Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
Bored of 1970s suburban life, Maurice and Maralyn plan their escape: sell the house, build a boat, set sail for New Zealand. Then, halfway around the world, their beloved boat is struck by a whale…
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for June 2021Shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2022Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a…
The Bitesize Book Review: We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self?Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years. Since childhood they…
S5E3 Go As A River by Shelley Read
When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life?1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the only woman in a family of troubled men.When she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter…
S5E2 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
an affair between a young Catholic woman and a married Protestant barrister drives this brilliant novel set in 1975 Belfast.
S1E8 Christopher Bland Prize winner The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
The Salt Path is a 2024 British biographical drama film directed by Marianne Elliott based on the book of the same name and one read in book club a few years ago. We revisit it here in our podcast.…
S5E1 Gloucester Book Club's Top 3 Books of 2024
This episode by host, Christina Young, talks about the top 3 books Gloucester Book Club read together in 2024, as voted for by book club members. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Our Missing Hearts by…
S4E14 In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Waterstones Novel of the Year 2023 A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World War.It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the…
S4E13 Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who…
S4E13 Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Morrison siblings have been haunted by tragedy since the sudden death of their parents in an accident when they were young. Kate found an escape from the legacy of their dark past in her passion…
S4E11 Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Our Missing Hearts is the third novel by the American author Celeste Ng. It was published in 2022 by Penguin Press. The novel follows Noah Gardner (known as Bird) on a bus trip from Cambridge,…
A Chat with Rachel Sargeant author of the Gloucestershire Crime Series
Rachel Sargeant is the author of The Roommates, The Good Teacher, and The Perfect Neighbours. She also writes the Gloucestershire Crime Series, which includes Her Deadly Friend and Her Charming…
S4E9 Hard By a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
Shortlisted for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Adventure Prize for Fiction - could this be the winner? An extraordinary tale of family, scarifice and our never-ceasing battle with the past,…
S4E8 Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
Athena Liu is a literary darling.June Hayward is literally nobody. But when June just happens to witness Athena die in a freak accident, she realises now is her chance to find fame.So what if that…
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