A special episode! Anna is joined by Emily Hart and Margot Lloyd, founders of . We discuss the exciting launch of this new publisher and the . Our book of the week is by Barbara Hanrahan, re-issued by Pink Shorts Press this year with an...

Anna and Annie discuss the and some upcoming book-to-screen adaptations: , , and . Our book of the week is by Robert Lukins. A dysfunctional family comes together in Connecticut when the parents announce they have lost everything. This will appeal...

Anna and Annie discuss the for fiction, including WOO WOO by Ella Baxter and HIGHWAY 13 by Fiona McFarlane. Our book of the week is by Helen Garner. This is a memoir of a year Garner spent following her grandson's club football team. It explores...

Geoff and Anna discuss by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by David McDuff.   This is a fictionalised account of the four years Dostoevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp after he was arrested for taking part in a political conspiracy. ...

Anna and Geoff discuss by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Ronald Meyer.  A man meets a woman on the street in St Petersburg and falls in love in this short story. It has become a in recent months and Penguin has commissioned to be read by...

A special episode: Anna chats with Kate Slotover of the . Our book of the week is  by Beth Brower. Recommended by our friend Shawn Mooney of , we enjoyed this novel set in Victorian London about a young woman returning to claim her inheritance....

A special episode: Anna is joined by author and founder .  We discuss our reactions to the 2025 .  Our book of the week is by Alexei Navalny translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel. This is Navalny’s autobiography detailing his...

Anna and Geoff react to the 2025 . Our book of the week is  by Christian Kracht translated by Daniel Bowles. A middle-aged man goes on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his 80-year old mother, recently discharged from a mental...

A special episode: Anna chats with author about her debut novel . When Lauren returns to her flat in London one night, she finds a husband called Michael: the only problem is, she isn’t married.  It turns out that her attic is producing an...

Anna and Geoff review   the new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst. Dave Win is a Burmese-British actor reminiscing about his life, growing up as a gay man in the 1960s through to 2019. We loved the exact and beautiful...