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A Pair of Bookends — 223 episodes
S8 Debut Spotlight- 4. Lorna Elcock (Birth Order, Cèilidhs & Her Favourite Scottish Novel)
Chloe Benjamin, author of 'Under Story' on Parallel Worlds, Chronic Pain & Experiential Research
August Book Club with Amy Taylor: Athens, Desire & The Baby Dilemma
Claire Powell, author of 'All In' on IVF, Holidays & Ayşegül Savaş
Books to Screen: Every Summer After/ Every Year After with Shahed Ezaydi
Ashley Hickson-Lovence, author of 'About To Fall Apart' on Fictionalising Family Secrets, Emiliano Sala & Writing Rhythm
Summer Reading Recs From Your Favourite Authors
S8 Debut Spotlight- 3. Rebecca Bainbridge (Pitching Advice, School Gates Politics & Liane Moriarty)
Louise Beech/Swanson, author of 'Wonderful' on Marilyn Monroe, Fame & Shame
Chloë Ashby, author of 'Family Friends' on Messy Families, Power Dynamics & Tracey Emin
July Book Club with Claire Daverley: Weddings, 'Guiding Light' Books & The Bear
S8 Debut Spotlight- 2. Amman Brar (Post Office Scandal, Life in Punjab, Writing Stage vs Page)
S8 Debut Spotlight- 1. Jessica Elisabeth (Empowering Women, Green Flag Men & Off Campus)
Angela Flournoy, author of 'The Wilderness' on Female Friendship, New York & Giving Back
Rosie Walsh, author of 'The One Day You Were My Husband' on Thailand, Writing Twists & A Great Grief Memoir
June Book Club with Anna Goldreich: Queer Utopia, Baby Loss & The Healing Power of Nature
Kathleen MacMahon, author of 'Other People's Lives' on Lily King, Marriage & Grief
Books to Screen: Margo's Got Money Troubles with Amanda Moulson (Curious Readers)
Imogen Crimp, author of 'Give Me Everything You've Got' on Second Novel Syndrome, Dorris Lessing & Gothic Settings
S7 Debut Spotlight-10. Natalie Adler (The AIDS crisis, Queer Community & Ghosts)
Sarah Gilmartin, author of 'Little Vanities' on Betrayal, Actors & Explosive Scenes
May Book Club with Cecile Pin: Space, Ambition & Sacrifice
S7 Debut Spotlight- 9.Brooke Averick (Anxiety, Crushes & Turning Thirty)
S7. Debut Spotlight- 8. Charlotte Paradise (Chronic Illness, Sex Hierarchies & Film Recs)
S7. Debut Spotlight- 7. Eden McKenzie-Goddard (Windrush Scandal, Music & Bajan Culture)
Books to Screen: Heated Rivalry with Hannah Beer
Children's Booker Prize 2027, Afrori Books & Support Indie Bookshops!
S7. Debut Spotlight- 6. Rosie Storey (Dating Apps, Messy Characters & Loss)
Books to Screen: Shy by Max Porter/ Steve (Netflix) with Katherine Brabon
April Book Club with Beth O'Leary: Community, Fave Romance Writers & Name Twins
Books to Screen: Project Hail Mary with Susie Green (In My Good Books)
Siân Hughes, author of 'No Such Thing As Monday' on Shame, Memory & Gender Inequality
Lizzy Stewart, Author & Illustrator of 'The Wreck' on Becoming a Graphic Novelist, Exploring Class & The Joy of Photos
March Book Club with Ela Lee: Censorship, Han (한) and South Korea's Deregulated Adoption Industry
S7. Debut Spotlight-5. Bar Fridman-Tell (Blodeuwedd, Body Horror & Epigraphs)
S7. Debut Spotlight-4. Jess Shannon (Unnamed Narrators, Stylistic Imitation & The Obsession with Cleaning)
S7. Debut Spotlight-3. Charlotte Cross (The Brides of Dracula, Psychics & Sapphic Relationships in Historical Fiction)
Anna Brook-Mitchell (Live @ Serenity Booksellers): Child-free by Choice, Screenwriting & Guernsey
February Book Club with Michelle Steinbeck: Femicide, Family Estrangement & The Writer/Translator Relationship
Books to Screen: Wuthering Heights with Catherine Airey
Rhiannon Lucy Coslett, author of 'Female, Nude' on Art, Motherhood & Wealth Divides in Friendships
Books to Screen: The Taming of The Shrew/10 Things I Hate About You with Sophie Crawford
S7. Debut Spotlight-2. Elspeth Wilson (Journaling, Dark Academia & Secret Societies)
S7. Debut Spotlight-1. Rebecca Ferrier (Cornish Folklore, Eldest Daughters & DnD Inspo)
Books to Screen: The Secret History with Emily Goulding
Roxy Dunn, author of 'Wants and Needs' on Rejection, Ethical Non-Monogamy & Mothers and Daughters
Books to Screen: Hamnet with Emma Hinds
January Book Club with Grace Murray: Campus Novels, Deception & Penguin's WriteNow Scheme
Xmas Special: Top 5 Reads of 2025 Ft Emma Hinds
Emma Hinds, author of 'Witchlore' on Manchester, Magic & Queer Shapeshifters
December Book Club with Hayley Dunlop: Christmas Films, Unconventional Female Protagonists & Best Book of 2025
Iman Hariri-Kia, author of 'Female Fantasy' on Romance Faves, Buffy Fan Fiction & Heated Rivalry
S6. Debut Spotlight-12. Uttama Kirit Patel (Parenthood, Domestic Workers & Mother-In-Laws)
November Book Club with Chloe Michelle Howarth (Live @ Queer Lit): Obsession, Queerness in 60s Rural Ireland & Toxic Siblings
October Book Club with Author & The Witcher Actor Joey Batey: Meeting Characters, Internet Culture & Pluribus
S6. Debut Spotlight-11. Lucas Oakeley (Men Reading Fiction, Yearning & Food)
S6. Debut Spotlight-10. Viola van de Sandt (Dinner Parties, Miranda July & Writing Trauma)
S6. Debut Spotlight-9. B.A. Pepper (Smut, Welsh Mythology & All The Romantasy Recs!)
S6. Debut Spotlight- 8. Chloe de Lullington (Student Life, Bisexuality & David Bowie)
S6. Debut Spotlight- 7. Hattie Williams (Publishing, Big Feelings & Our Comfort Writers)
Lily King, author of 'Heart the Lover' on Love, Grief & The Ultimate Reading List
S6. Debut Spotlight- 6. Malika Nekhla (Self-Publishing, Bookshops & Perfect Castings)
September Book Club with Booker Prize Shortlisted Author Susan Choi: Japanese/Korean History, Language & Otherness
Laurie Gilmore, author of 'The Gingerbread Bakery' on Slow Burn Romance, Spicy Scenes & The Dream Harbor Series
S6. Debut Spotlight- 5. Jo Morey (Belize, Hearing Loss & Publishing BTS)
Elodie Harper, author of 'Boudicca's Daughter' on Roman History, Complex Families & Enemies to Lovers
S6 Debut Spotlight- 4. Emma Cowing (Scotland, Powerful Women & Life at The Circus)
Thomas McMullan, author of 'Groundwater' on Acting Classes, Money + Privilege & Horror Settings
S6 Debut Spotlight- 3. Aisling Rawle (Love Island, Toxic Masculinity & George Orwell)
S6 Debut Spotlight- 2. Elaine Hastings (Doomed Love, Tortured Rock Stars & The Price Of Fame)
Heather Darwent, author of 'A Sharp Scratch' on Unreliable Narrators, Atmospheric Settings & The Books She's Been Loving
Summer Reading Guide (ft Emma Hinds): Road Trip Reads, Sexy Books & Weird Lit
July Book Club with Emma Hinds: Alchemy, Found Family & Pain Vs Pleasure
Indyana Schneider, author of 'Since The World is Ending' on Classical Music, Great Sex Scenes & Mistreatment in Creative Industries
S6 Debut Spotlight- 1. Emily Buchanan (Climate Activism, Grief & Gilmore Girls)
S5 Debut Spotlight- 10. Loretta Rothschild (Great Openings, Reading Widely & Tangled Love Stories)
Juhea Kim, author of 'City of Night Birds' on Ballet, the 'Russian Greats' & Perseverance
S5 Debut Spotlight- 9. Jennifer Trevelyan (Re-reading, Mother's Guilt & Children as Narrators)
S5 Debut Spotlight- 8. Silvia Park (Adaptations, Robots & Scrapping Ideas)
June Book Club with Jenni Daiches: Women's Prize for Fiction, Writing Tragedy & Learning From History
Hazel Barkworth, author of 'The Drownings' on Witch Trials, Campus Novels & Female Rage
S5 Debut Spotlight- 7. Daria Lavelle (Love Stories, Grief & Speculative Fiction)
Lotte Jeffs, author of 'This Love' on Queer Parenting, IVF & Friendship
Saba Sams, author of 'Gunk' on Motherhood, Birth Scenes & Brighton
May Book Club with Agustina Bazterrica: Tender Is the Flesh Adaptation, Writing Horror & Climate Change
Top of Your TBR with Nat Reeve
Jo Harkin, author of 'The Pretender' on Switching Genres, Lambert Simnel & Writing Influences
April Book Club with Elif Shafak: Inequality in the Arts, Representing Marginalised Communities & Water Scarcity
S5 Debut Spotlight- 6. Sarah Harman (Working with the Producers of The Bear, Sorrow and Bliss & Failure to Success)
S5 Debut Spotlight- 5. Holly Brickley (Saoirse Ronan/Austin Butler Adaptation, Music, 00's Nostalgia)
Ben Markovits, author of 'The Rest of Our Lives' on American Roadtrips, Basketball & Friday Night Lights
Susan Barker, author of 'Old Soul' on Female Monsters, Stephen King & It Follows
March Book Club with David Szalay: Great Opening Chapters, Mental Health & the UK's treatment of Immigrants
S5 Debut Spotlight- 4. Dani Heywood-Lonsdale (Art, Grief & Peter Pan)
Feb Book Club with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn: Love Island, Black Masculinity & Dealing with Rejection
S5 Debut Spotlight- 3. Rachel Bower (Northern Characters, Gytrash & Coercive Control)
S5 Debut Spotlight- 2. Lucy Steeds (Art Monsters, Food Writing & War Objectors)
A Pair of Bookends Live @ Social Refuge/Queer Lit with Kate Fagan, author of The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Jan Book Club with Nicola Dinan: Turning 30, Finding Success & The Importance of Humour
S5 Debut Spotlight- 1. Catherine Airey (9/11, Irish History & Jonathan Franzen)
Bonus Books- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls with Grady Hendrix: Horror, Maternity Homes & Witchcraft
Christmas special 2024 with Claire Daverley: Top 5 Reads of 2024, Most Anticipated 2025 releases & What we're watching at Xmas
Bonus Books: The Ghosts of Paris with Tara Moss- Raymond Chandler, LGBTQ+ history & Becoming a Private Investigator
December Book Club with Hux (Lizzie Huxley-Jones): Christmas Books, Trans & Disability Representation & Community
The Vagina Business with Marina Gerner: Femtech, Pink tax & Fertility
'Lights Out' with Louise Swanson: Northern Representation, A Little Life & Writing Advice
Bonus Books- The Book of Witching with C.J. Cooke: Witch Trials, Misogyny & Cults
November Book Club with Eliza Clark (Author of She's Always Hungry): Body Horror, Climate Anxiety & Writing Influences
October Book Club with Marieke Bigg (author of A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be): Unlikeable female characters, cancel culture & beetles
S4 Debut Spotlight Finale: Moira Buffini on her 'Songlight' trilogy, Gender roles & The Chrysalids
Laura Kay, Author of 'Making It' on Creating Art, Depression & Writing Sex
Bonus: In Conversation with Kate Mosse CBE, Founder of the Women's Prize & Author of 'The Map of Bones'
S4 Debut Spotlight- 9. Lucy Jane Wood (90s Nostalgia, Magic & Female Friendship)
S4 Debut Spotlight- 8. James Roseman (Jewish Identity, Mental Health & All The Book Recs!)
Bonus: Patreon Sneak Peek: The Booker Prize 2024 with Emma Hinds
S4 Debut Spotlight- 7. Rachel Blackmore (Costanza, Baroque Art & Coercive Control)
September Book Club: Shy Creatures with Clare Chambers
S4 Debut Spotlight- 6. Bruce Omar Yates (Westerns, Camels & Identity Crises)
Season Finale: Claire Daverley on Summer reading, creating relatable characters & success
S4 Debut Spotlight- 5. Cameron Capello
July Book Club: I Will Crash with Rebecca Watson
S4 Debut Spotlight- 4. Ania Card
S4 Debut Spotlight- 3. Nikkitha Bakshani
In Conversation with Louise Candlish, author of 'Our Holiday'
In Conversation with Ilaria Bernardini, author of 'Faremo Foresta/We Will Be Forest'
In Conversation with Sam Taylor, author of 'The Two Loves of Sophie Strom'
Bonus: In conversation with Claire Lombardo, author of 'Same As It Ever Was'
Independent Bookshop Week 2024 with Serenity Booksellers
In Conversation with Sarah Gilmartin, author of 'Service'
The Serpent and the Wings of Night with Carissa Broadbent
Bonus: Small Hours with Bobby Palmer (Bobby's back!)
In Conversation with Ericka Waller, author of Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
May Book Club: Girls with Kirsty Capes
*Some news*
S4 Debut Spotlight- 2. Alan Murrin
S4 Debut Spotlight- 1. Nathan Newman
Bonus: Darling Girls with Sally Hepworth
April Book Club: A Lesson in Cruelty with Harriet Tyce
S3 Debut Spotlight Finale with Georgina Moore
S3 Debut Spotlight- 9. Paul Carlucci
S3 Debut Spotlight- 8. Leeanne O’ Donnell
Monthly Culture Round-up with Emma Hinds: Cowboy Carter, American Fiction & Annie Bot
S3 Debut Spotlight- 7. Roxy Dunn
S3 Debut Spotlight- 6. Ursula Villarreal-Moura
March Book Club: Unearthing with Kyo Maclear
Feb Book Club: Hard by a Great Forest with Leo Vardiashvili
Monthly Culture Round-up: Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, One Day, BAFTAs & Beyoncé
S3 Debut Spotlight- 5. Miranda Pountney
Bonus Books: Body Friend with Katherine Brabon
S3. Debut Spotlight- 4. Sarah Marsh
Monthly Culture Round-Up: Saltburn, Dolly Alderton's Good Material & Paul Mescal
S3 Debut Spotlight- 3. Madeleine Gray
Minisode: My Beautiful Psychosis with Emma Goude
S3 Debut Spotlight - 2. Kate Brody
Jan Book Club: The Knowing with Emma Hinds
Christmas Special with Book Bodega: Top Books of 2023, 2024 Ones to Watch & A New Bookish Podcast...
Polari Prize 2023 Special with winner Julia Armfield
A Very Festive Bonus Books with Sarra Manning
A Festive Bonus Books Special with B.K Borison
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2023 Special with winner Jason Allen-Paisant
S3 Debut Spotlight- 1. Celina Baljeet Basra
October Book Club: Land of Milk and Honey with C.Pam Zhang
Bonus Books: The Figurine with Victoria Hislop
S2 Debut Spotlight- 10. Pip Finkemeyer
Bonus: You Could Be So Pretty with Holly Bourne
Bonus Books: All The Little Liars with Victoria Selman
S2 Debut Spotlight- 9. Gabriella Braun
September Book Club: The Wren, The Wren with Anne Enright
Season Finale: Salt and Skin with Eliza Henry-Jones
S2 Debut Spotlight - 8. Khashayar J. Khabushani
Bonus Books: Limelight with Daisy Buchanan
S2 Debut Spotlight- 7. Emily Habeck
July Book Club: Ordinary Human Failings with Megan Nolan
S2 Debut Spotlight- 6. Mikki Brammer
Minisode- Spicy reads, a love affair with Hozier, the Barbenheimer debate & recs galore!
Bonus Books: The Rachel Incident with Caroline O'Donoghue
Bonus Books: Second Self with Chloë Ashby
June Book Club: The Late Americans with Brandon Taylor
S2 Debut Spotlight- 5. Ruth Kelly
S2 Debut Spotlight - 4. Sarah Jost
S2 Debut Spotlight - 3. Senta Rich
Bonus Books: Now You See Us with Balli Kaur Jaswal
May Book Club: Scorched Grace with Margot Douaihy
Minisode- Turning pain into poetry with Tiannah Malika
S2 Debut Spotlight - 2. Natasha Calder
S2 Debut Spotlight- 1. Lydia Sandgren
The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 Special with Margo Jefferson, Michelle de Kretser & Victoria Adukwei Bulley
April Book Club: The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa with Stephen Buoro
10. Debut Spotlight- Julia Boggio
Bonus Books: The Book of Eve with Meg Clothier
9. Debut Spotlight- Costanza Casati
March Book Club: Dazzling with Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ
Minisode - Women's Prize 2023 Special
8. Debut Spotlight- Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
BONUS BOOK CLUB: Cursed Bread with Sophie Mackintosh
7. Debut Spotlight- Ann-Helen Laestadius
6. Debut Spotlight - Nicole Flattery
Feb Book Club: Are You Happy Now with Hanna Jameson
5. Debut Spotlight - Kevin Jared Hosein
4. Debut Spotlight - Imogen Crimp
3. Debut Spotlight - Eleanor Shearer
2. Debut Spotlight - Victoria MacKenzie
Jan Book Club: Send Nudes with Saba Sams
Minisode - Top 5 Books of 2022, 2023 releases & would you leave me to die?
1. Debut Spotlight - Rosie Andrews
Christmas Special 2022!
They're Going To Love You With Meg Howrey
Top Of Your TBR with Cherie Jones
Isaac and the Egg with Bobby Palmer
Best Of Friends with Kamila Shamsie
Top Of Your TBR with Rosa Rankin-Gee
Top Of Your TBR With Claire Fuller
The Life Of The Mind with Christine Smallwood
Common Decency with Susannah Dickey
Top Of Your TBR with Maggie Shipstead
5. Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman
4. Pride Book Club Special - Heartstopper with Emma Hinds
Top Of Your TBR with Pandora Sykes
3. Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
Minisode Two: The Books That Shaped Us
2. Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
Minisode One: Women's Prize Special
1. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara