Chapter Thirteen has Claire and Rebecca chatting to author Sophie White about writing, podcasting, and parenting.

Sophie is a writer and podcaster from Dublin. Her books range from a cookbook-memoir and personal essay collection to novels that touch on topical issues. She has been a columnist for the Sunday Independent for nine years, currently writing her weekly Nobody Tells You column for their LIFE magazine. She also writes regularly for various Irish publications, contributes to TV and radio, and has been nominated for Journalist of the Year at the Irish Magazine Awards three times. She is co-host of the chart-topping podcasts Mother Of Pod and The Creep Dive.

Definitely not an episode to be missed! 

Sophie's Auto-buy Author:

Meg Wolitzer.

Book Recommendations/Mentions:

The 'Goosebumps' series by R. L. Stine.

"Are You Somebody" by Nuala O' Faolain.

"Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir.

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Where have we been!?!After an unplanned but needed hiatus, we are back with a catch-up episode! Claire and Rebecca chat current reads, life news and plans for the pod!𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲:⁣⁣"No One Saw a Thing" by Andrea Mara."My Hot Friend" by Sophie White."Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir."No Apologies" by Niamh Orbinski."Glass Houses" by Melanie Murphy."The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A Novel" by Tom Hanks."In a Thousand Different Ways" by Cecelia Ahern."Happy Place" by Emily Henry."The True Love Experiment" by Christina Lauren."In a Holidaze" by Christina Lauren.The Grishaverse series by Leigh Bardugo."The Matchmaker" by Catherine Walsh."Maybe Next Time" by Cesca Major.- - -Thanks to Helen Becerra for the artwork and Mark Neville for the mixing.Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: PLGGIGEZMJI9NR3G---Follow us on Instagram: @another.chapter.podcast--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/another-chapter/message

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In this chapter, Claire chats to one of her favourite authors Andrea Mara about life as a writer. Andrea Mara is a Sunday Times and Irish Times Top Ten bestselling author who has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Book Awards. She lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband and three young children and also runs a multi-award-winning parent and lifestyle blog, OfficeMum.ie.

A must-listen episode!Andrea's Auto-buy Authors:

Louise O' Neill and Kia Abdullah.

Book Recommendations/Mentions:

"The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy" by Barbara Vine

"Where I End" by Sophie White

"The Red House" by Roz Watkins

"Strange Sally Diamond" by Liz Nugent

"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver

"The End of Us" by Olivia Kiernan

"Good Girls Die Last" by Natali Simmonds

"Amazing Grace Adams" by Fran Littlewood

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February's readalong book stated "But the problem with having your nose in everyone else's business is that you often miss what is happening in your own home."... Join hosts Claire and Rebecca as they discuss Sarah Stovell's novel about hurtful opinions, judgement and how one community can have many secrets. Lots of hot topics in this one.

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08:58 - 59:32 - Book Discussion Lots of Spoilers

59:33 - End - Announcement of March and April readalong books Spoiler Free!

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In this episode Claire & Rebecca chat to Steven O’ Riordan who co-authored the book “Whispering Hope” about women who survived the Magdalene Laundries. Raised to advocate for those who needed his help, Steven got involved with meeting survivors of Magdalene Laundries, helping them to access the redress scheme, and took it upon himself to help to tell the stories that these women had kept quiet for far too long.

Steven’s book Whispering Hope tells the accounts of five women who survived the Magdalene Laundries. His documentary The Forgotten Maggies is available on YouTube. Watch "The Forgotten Maggies" Documentary here

Book Recommendations/Mentions:

Steven O’ Riordan:

"Whispering Hope" by Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery and Marina Gambold, with Steven O' Riordan.

"Sophia's Story" by Susan McKay

"The Little Prisoner" by Jane  Elliott

"The Light in the Window" by June Goulding

"Thirteen" by Steve Cavanagh

"Her Last Breath" by Linda Castillo

"Daddy's Little Girl" by Mary Higgins Clark

Aoife Cassidy:

Non-Fiction

"Bessborough" by Deirdre Finnerty

"Belonging" by Catherine Corless

"Against the Tide" by Dr. Noel Browne

"Republic of Shame" by Caelainn Hogan

"My Name is Bridget" by Alison O’ Reilly

"In the Shadow of the 8th" by Dr. Peter Boylan

"The Adoption Machine" by Paul Jude Redmond

"Mother and Child" by Lindsey Earner-Byrne

"Oh Captain, My Captain" by Jennifer Horgan.

Fiction

"I couldn’t Love You More" by Esther Freud

"Small Things Like" These by Claire Keegan

"Waiting for the Miracle" by Anna McPartlin

"The Secret Scripture" by Sebastian Barry

"The Paper Bracelet" by Rachel English

"A Second Life" by Dermot Bolger

Academic

"Redress" by Katherine O'Donnell, James Smith, Maeve O'Rourke

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In Chapter 8 Claire and Rebecca sit down and delve a bit deeper into the world of non-fiction. 

Why do we read non-fiction? What constitutes non-fiction? And why do we not read as much non-fiction when we compare it to the amount of fiction we consume? 

We hope you enjoy listening to our discussion as much as we enjoyed having it.

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Recommended / Suggested books:

The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson

Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie K. Brown

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Fat Chance by Louise McSharry

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Bessborough by Deirdre Finnerty

Whispering Hope by Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Crogan, Marie Slattery and Marina Gambold with Steven O' Riordan. 

My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen

Me and my Mate Jeffrey by Niall Breslin

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Name Drop by Ross Matthews

A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney

A Class Act by Rob Beckett

Parenting Hell by Rob Beckett and Josh Widdecombe

Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

Home by Julie Andrews

Home Work by Julie Andrews 

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

No Logo by Naomi Klein

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Dispatches by Michael Herr

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

North by Seamus Heaney 

Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Don’t Touch my Hair by Emma Dabiri

I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

The Choice by Edith Eger

Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

Recovering by Richie Sadlier

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January's readalong book asked "What if going back means you could begin again?"... Join hosts Claire and Rebecca as they discuss this novel about homelessness, addiction and the redeeming power of love. Lots of hot topics in this one, plus a surprise or two along the way...  

Timings:

00:00 - 06:22 - Opening section Spoiler Free!

06:23 - 1:10:49 - Book Discussion Lots of Spoilers

1:10:50 - End - Announcement of February readalong book Spoiler Free!

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If anyone can tell you how to make time to read amid the chaos of day to day life, it’s mum of 4 Aoife Cassidy! In this episode, Rebecca chats to Aoife and discovers what it is like to become an advocate for secular education, who Aoife’s literary dinner guests would be, and what plans Aoife has for her future!

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Books recommended in this episode are:

“From Caucasia, with love” by Danzy Senna

“Nothing but Blue Sky” by Kathleen McMahon

“We don’t know ourselves” by Fintan O’ Toole

“The End of Where We Begin” by Rosalind Russell

“Bessborough” by Deirdre Finnerty

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The Neapolitan Quartet” by Elena Ferrante

Young Adult Recommendations:

“Noughts and Crosses” by Malorie Blackman.

“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas.

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” series by Holly Jackson

“I’ll Give You the Sun” by Jandy Nelson.

“The Hunger Games” series by Suzanne Collins

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"Mad Honey" by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan was our Readalong Book for December.

Join us today as we talk about the book, based off our own experiences of it and those of the listeners who engaged in the chats, question boxes and polls about it. Plus, hear what our January Readalong Book is at the end!

Section 1 is general chat about the book and is spoiler free!

Section 2 (from around 15 minutes in) is more in-depth discussion and will contain lots of spoilers - so listen at your own discretion from this point on.

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When we were brainstorming who we could invite to be our first author interview, we had a short list of criteria: We wanted an Irish author, someone who had a book recently released,  and someone who we could have a bit of craic with and this lady came straight to mind. Catherine Walsh is the new queen of contemporary Romance in Ireland (and elsewhere if the reviews are anything to go by!) and one of the funnest accounts to follow on Bookstagram. Fun aside, Catherine raises some really excellent points about the lack of visibility and respect for Romance as a genre and we suspect you might think a bit differently about it after you’ve heard her speak…Both the author and her books have been an absolute joy to get to know and we hope you love the episode as much as we do.Catherine's RecommendationsA book to get into reading or get back into reading after a slump            Do a re-read of an old favouriteWho are your go-to authors?                                                                           Jane Harper, Leigh Bardugo and Stacey HallsEnd of episode book recommendationsRebecca "One Night Only" and "The Rebound" by Catherine Walsh + NEW BOOK The Matchmaker "It Happened One Summer" / "Hook Line and Sinker" by Tessa Bailey "Book Lovers" by Emily Henry "The Unhoneymooners" / "The Soulmate Equation" by Christina Lauren "The Ex Talk" by Rachel Lynn Solomen "Girl Meets Duke" Series by Tessa Dare "If I Never Met You" by Mhairi McFarlane The "Bergman Brother" Series by Chloe LieseThanks to Helen Becerra for the artwork and Mark Neville for the mixing.Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: PLGGIGEZMJI9NR3G

Transcript available at https://anotherchapterpodcast.com/2023/03/19/chapter-three-interview-with-author-catherine-walsh/

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