Season 2: Heart Lamp Wins, Eden’s Shore Begins & the Book Club Vote Opens

We’re back! In this season premiere, we react to Heart Lamp’s big win at the 2025 International Booker Prize, reveal our next book club read—Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan—and launch our Book Club Vote to decide what we’ll read after that.🎧 We also catch you up on what we’ve been reading and planning behind the scenes. Come join the conversation!📊 Book Club Poll – Vote Now!You can vote in four places—Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, and right here on this episode.📌 Voting closes Midnight GMT on Friday.📌 The more places you vote, the more your vote counts!This Week’s Categories & Picks:👑 Has Been Crowned - LucyGlorious Exploits by Ferdia LennonWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionWinner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction PrizeWinner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel AwardNamed a Best Book of 2024 by Slate, The Guardian, and the New York Public Library📖 Freshly Bound - HannahThirst Trap by Gráinne O’HarePublished 12th June 2025Be among the first to read it!🏅 Now Renowned - AaronThe Tusks of Extinction by Ray NaylerShortlisted for the 2025 Hugo Award for Best NovellaShortlisted for the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Novella📚 Been Around - ColinMother Naked by Glen James BrownColin’s personal top read of 2024📅 What’s Coming UpOur next episode drops Monday 16th June, where we’ll review Eden’s Shore and reveal the winner of the vote.From then on, we’ll be releasing new episodes every two weeks this season.💬 We Want to Hear From You!Tell us what you thought of Eden’s Shore, vote in the poll, or recommend our next book!Which book would you suggest for each category?📩 [email protected]📘 Goodreads📸 Instagram🐦 Twitter/X📘 Facebook👉 Tap Follow on your favourite platform to stay in the loop and help shape what we read next!