Our first guest! Just around the corner, on June 5th, the 2019 winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction will be announced. We gladly welcome Dr. Simon Rosenberg to the podcast for a discussion about this and other book prizes.

We look into the seriously odd illustrations in medieval manuscripts for today's discussion and game.

In the very first episode of Biblio Banter, Erin, Natalia, Ellen, and Laura talk about the big questions: Just what is book history? (Or is it book studies?) What is a book? And why is book smuggling so exciting? We then fill in the blanks of Robert Darton’s influential Communications Circuit in a game inspired by the classic (and wacky) 1970s game show Match Game.