James and Ashley Stay at Home

108 | Compelling, subversive, beautiful: the books we loved most in 2024


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It's that time of year again - the annual Bed on a Plinth Awards, in which James and Ashley discuss the best books they've read in the last twelve months! Use this particularly eclectic list to gather Christmas gift ideas, or simply top up your own 'to be read' pile.

Books & authors discussed in this episode (spoilers below!):

  • Red River Road by Anna Downes 
  • The Last Trace by Petronella McGovern
  • An Ambush of Widows by R.W.R. McDonald (audiobook)
  • Seventeen Years Later by JP Pomare
  • Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor
  • The Pulling by Adele Dumont (interviewed in episode 93)
  • Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen 
  • Not Everything Counts but Everything Matters by Ivan Cleary & Andrew Webster 
  • Fragile Creatures by Khin Myint (interviewed in episode 101)
  • Ghost Cities by Siang Lu (interviewed in episode 99)
  • Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
  • Sociopath by Patric Gagn
  • The Writer’s Room by Charlotte Wood 
  • Tyranny of the Minority by Daniel Ziblatt & Steven Levitsky 
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 
  • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 

Upcoming events 

  • Ashley is teaching Year of the Novel for Writing NSW beginning on Wednesday evenings starting 26 February 2025 
  • The Cold Truth tour is happening in February! Sign up for Ashley's newsletter here for full details 

Learn more about Ashley's thrillers, Dark Mode and Cold Truth, and get your copies from your local bookshop or your library. 

Learn more about James' award-winning novel Denizen and get your copy from your local bookshop or your library.

Get in touch!

  • ashleykalagianblunt.com
  • jamesmckenziewatson.com
  • Instagram: @akalagianblunt + @jamesmcwatson
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