A Novel Review Podcast

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Hello and welcome to A Novel Review podcast series.

Through this podcast Seamus will tackle the endless world of literature, one book at a time!

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October 20, 2025Watership Down by Richard Adams | Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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A question I wondered as I started reading Richard Adam’s ‘Watership Down’ was – how affecting will a book about rabbits be?
It turns out that a story, that was originally orally comprised for the entertainment of his children, journeying for a better life across fields can sweep you along a great Odyssean tale of hardship, friendship, endurance and belief. It turns out rabbits can ask deep, fundamental truths to the human experience along their journey to a better life with all the subtlety of a sweeping masterpiece

Painting: Today I painted a rabbit

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Bookshop by Penelope Lively
Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt
The Assault by Harry Mulisch

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
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October 15, 2025The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – I volunteer as tribute to read these books for you. The duality of power on display amongst the gross pageantry of the upper class exercising their abusive ‘right’ to control the citizens of Panem. Katniss Everdeen volunteers for the the annual Hunger Games. 24 children enter the arena and only 1 will come out… all televised as sport. The real lives of these children, the reality tv show for the rich. May the odds be ever in your favour

Painting: Today I painted a the three finger salute

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The word for World is Water by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Assassins Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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October 07, 2025The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald | Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald has all the making of an idyllic dream coming to fruition. A lifelong dream of opening in a quaint English town is something everyone should like. But what happens when not everyone wants a bookshop? Seen as an outsider, Florence and her bookshop don’t quite fit into the puzzle of this small town and so she finds herself as an odd piece, out of place and suddenly in a fight for her dream against the reality of a world she doesn’t fully understand.

Painting: Today I painted a bookshop

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Trees by Percival Everett
A Life in Letters by Vincent Van Gogh
Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
The Evenings by Gerard Reve

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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September 30, 2025The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage | Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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Christy Climenhage’s ‘The Midnight Project” is a sci-fi exploration of our own humanity. The world on the verge of ecological collapse, A billionaire thinks our survival will come through the mutation of the human species with marine life to live under the ocean. The morals and ethics are as murky as the depths the life would exist as, as gene editing scientists Rainer and Cedric navigate the tenuous situation. The pressure of a billionaire footing the bill against the backdrop of vast ecological collapse – Rainer and Cedric start to make headway against such a project, but what are they really creating?

Painting: Today I painted an octopus

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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September 23, 2025Solaris by Stanisław Lem | Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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Stanisław Lem’s Solaris is less a tale of interstellar exploration than a cosmic therapy session gone awry. A planet covered by a sentient ocean toys with the psyches of visiting scientists, dredging up their deepest regrets in all-too tangible form. Instead of offering enlightenment, Solaris holds up an alien mirror that no one wants to peer into for long. Lem slyly suggests that humanity’s greatest unknown may not be outer space, but the dark abyss within ourselves

Painting: Today I painted a view of the planet Solaris

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
The Midnight Project by Christy Clemenhage

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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September 16, 2025The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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Arundhati Roy and her Booker Prize winning novel, ‘The God of Small Things’ is a book where it was the small things I couldn’t make sense of. No matter what I tried, time flipped, names multiplied and the story piled up in a traffic jam that I couldn’t make sense of. This was a DNF for me

Painting: Today I painted a simple view of a field

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe
Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga tokarczuk
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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September 09, 2025The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin - Fantasy Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin brings and end to the tale of the Archmage Ged wrapping the Earthsea trilogy in quiet finality. Magic fades, and with it, the Archmage himself passes into legend - diminished, yet fulfilled. There’s sorrow in his end, a sense of something beautiful vanishing into the lines of the horizon. The sea stretches on, but Ged’s voyage ends here, in silence, in shadow, in peace.
Painting: Today I painted two island that Ged and Arren sail through
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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September 02, 2025The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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In Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel, The White Tiger, Balram Halwai claws his way from darkness to light, serving satire as sharp as his entrepreneurial instincts. Adiga's India is raw, roaring, and unapologetically corrupt – a state of jungle law, where only cunning predators survive. Balram’s journey from teashop boy to businessman is a rags-to-riches journey one morally murky decision at a time.

Painting: Today I drew a line drawing of a tiger

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The God of the Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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August 26, 2025Summer Reads - Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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Summertime is the time to read outdoors, in the park, at the beach, at a café, wherever the sun is shining. Here are 4 books is read this summer!

Painting: Today I painted a beach

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrere

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
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August 19, 2025Naked Earth by Eileen Chang - Book Review & Literary Analysis | A Novel Review
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In Naked Earth, Eileen Chang peels back the red curtain on Maoist China with shocking irony spanning more than one layer. Love tries to bloom amid slogans, paranoia, and political purges, but ideology has a habit of stomping on sentiment. It’s romance meets revolution - awkwardly.

Painting: Today I painted a field

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
Naked Earth by Eileen Chang
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The God of the Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: [email protected]
IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/
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FAQs about A Novel Review Podcast:

How many episodes does A Novel Review Podcast have?

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