Books On The Go

A special episode: Anna chats with Kate and Laura from The Book Club Review Podcast to find the best books for book club reading.

We got together in Adelaide, London and Vancouver to bring you our Top 10:

1. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan translated by Heather Lloyd

2. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start-Up by John Carreyrou

3. New Animal by Ella Baxter 

4. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 

5. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 

6. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

7. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

8. A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley

9. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

10. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Coming up: our top Crime reads.

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A special episode!

Anna chats with Shawn Mooney from Shawn the Book Maniac.  We talk about the books we've been reading lately.  Some of the books discussed:

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Growing Up Disabled in Australia edited by Carly Findlay

You can also watch us on Shawn's YouTube channel at Shawn the Book Maniac.

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters.

This debut novel about love and parenting in the trans community was long-listed for the Women's Prize.  Described as 'exhilaratingly good' (Jia Tolentino), 'fiercely confident' (O Magazine), 'savvy' (New York Times Book Review) and 'electrifying' (Esquire), it's also very funny. Recommended.

Coming up: our top crime fiction recommendations.

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2021 International Booker Prize Shortlist.

Our book of the week is Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden.  This debut novel by one of Britain's best loved poets reimagines Death as a working-class woman who is a muse for Wolf, a troubled writer.  Praised as 'fantastically imaginative' (Idris Elba), it's part novel, part experience.

Coming up: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters.

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2021 Women's Prize Shortlist and the winner of the Stella Prize, The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld.

Our book of the week is No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, author of the hit memoir Priestdaddy.  A Most Anticipated Book of 2021  (O, USA Today, Esquire), a National Bestseller and shortlisted for the Women's Prize, this is a zeitgeist-y novel about life after the internet.  Highly recommended.

Coming up: Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden.

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Anna and Amanda discuss the 2021 Booker International Longlist (the Shortlist has just been announced).

Our book of the week is Klara and the Sun, the latest novel by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Klara is an artificial friend to Josie in this dystopic novel set in the future. A 'masterpiece of great beauty' (Sunday Times) and 'deft dystopic fable' (Financial Times) this is a New York Times best-seller.  

Coming up: Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters.

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Anna and Annie discuss the bookshops reopening in the UK and the Rathbones Folio prize scam.

Our book of the week is New Animal by Ella Baxter. This debut Australian novel centres on Amelia, a cosmetician at her family's funeral home business.  It's wry, funny and tender with Six Feet Under and Fleabag vibes.  Perfect for Aussie April. 

Coming up: Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley.

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2021 Stella Prize Shortlist and the Walter Scott Prize Shortlist.

Our book of the week is The Performance by Claire Thomas. This novel centres on three women at the theatre seeing Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, as bushfires rage outside. Intimate and sharply observed, this is a great pick for #AussieApril. 

Coming up: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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Anna and Annie discuss the 2021 Women's Prize Longlist and the Dublin Literary Award Shortlist.  

Our book of the week is Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson. This love story about two Black British artists is his debut novel.  Nelson is an award-winning photographer and writer described as 'an exhilarating new voice in British fiction' (Vogue). 

Coming up: The Performance by Claire Thomas.

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Anna chats with special guest Jaclyn Masters (aka Six Minutes For Me and co-host of Reading Women) about Australian books.

Join us for the Aussie April Readathon!

Our reading recommendations and TBR for #AussieApril :

Growing Up Disabled in Australia edited by Carly Findlay

The Performance by Claire Thomas

Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford

Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson

Born Into This by Adam Thompson

Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan

Bindi by Kirli Saunders

New Animal by Ella Baxter

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Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz