Paul and Holly chat about Max Porter, one of Britain’s most

To see some of the books we mention go to https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/max-porter-the-medieval-and-much-more-bookylicious-series-2-episode-8

For more information about Paul Kingsnorth and Dark Mountain

And for more about Max porter and his books go to https://www.maxporter.co.uk/

In this episode Gwyn and Paul discuss the Book of the Month

You can find the full text of Tolkien on Fairy Tales here https://archive.org/details/on-fairy-stories_202110

If you wish to watch the BBC adaptation of The Wolves of

All the books we discuss are in our Bookshop.org bookshop

Gwyn also mentions Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand

There is only one episode of Bookylicious this month we will be back with two in May!

Paul, Gwyn and Lara chat about ‘Edgelands’

It leads to a great discussion about nature in unexpected

For the insatiably curious among you here is a link to an

In this episode Paul, Gwyn, Holly and Lara catch up on some of their latest good reads. Listener and author Patricia Bracewell raises the question would there be Harry Potter without The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper? Gwyn champions Stephen King’s ‘Fairy Tale’ as a great read; Holly and Lara both recommend Margaret Atwood’s ‘Hag Seed’ and Paul delves into Victorian natural history with Isabella Tree’s ‘John Gould, the Bird Man’. We also catch up on the most recent book group read by Amy Liptrot.

Lara recommends two Liverpool bookshops News from Nowhere in Bold Street http://newsfromnowhere.org.uk/and Out of Print in Smithdown Road

For a list of some of the books we talk about on the show go here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/from-harry-potter-to-hag-seed-bookylicious-season-2-episode-5

Paul Gwyn and Holly discuss Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, this month’s book of the month. We also highlight some of our favourite bookshops including:

Troutmark Books (Cardiff and Newport) https://www.troutmarkbooks.com/

Books Llangollen https://www.booksllangollen.co.uk/

Booka Bookshop (Oswestry) https://www.bookabookshop.co.uk/

Juno Books (Sheffield) https://www.junobooks.co.uk/shop

To see and buy some of the books we discussed in this episode go to https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/treasure-island-and-our-favourite-bookshops-bookylicious-series-2-episode-4

To get early bird festival tickets for Wrexham Carnival of Words 2023 go to https://wrexhamcarnivalofwords.com/ 

In this episode Paul, Holly and Gwyn through the spotlight on Charles Dickens, including ‘Six things you almost certainly didn’t know about Dicken’s’ . What fun we had!

For a flavour of what Dicken’s World’ was like here is a brief video from 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jdx1docVTI

For some of the books we mentioned go to our Bookylicious bookshelf here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/what-the-dicken-s-bookylicious-series-2-episode-3

Paul, Gwyn and Lara get 2023 off to a flying start, talking about reading resolutions and targets (not challenges). Bookylicious has a new feel with two shorter episodes a month whilst keeping book chat you love and occasional author interviews we will be introducing some new feature such as Book of the Month, Classic Author Spotlight, favourite book podcasts and much more.

Here are links for Horatio Clare’s Sound Walk in the Faroes and Dan Richards Only After Dark

To see and buy all the books mentioned on the show go to https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-year-reading-challenges-bookylicious-series-2-ep-1 

In this episode Paul interviews author David Ebsworth (aka Dave McCall) about his new book ‘The House on Hunter Street’ set in Liverpool in 1911. For more information about Dave and his previous books go to www.davidebsworth.com

Paul also talks to Monika Evans about her love for ‘The Master and Magarita’ by Mikhail Bulgakov and the challenges and surprises (Robert Burns in Silesian!) of literature in translation. Dave also speaks from about having his novel ‘Until the Curtain Falls’ translated into Spanish. You can go and check out Monika’s excellent work as a singer songwriter here https://soundcloud.com/monikaevans-music

Gwyn, Lara and Paul catch up after the long summer and check in on their current reading.

Here is a link to Bloody Scotland and click here if you want to find out more about Shelterbox Book Club and Adventurous Ink

Here are some of the other books we talked about:

Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo

Charlotte Belton – Putin’s People

Janina Ramirez - Femina

Elise Downing - Coasting

Arthur C. Clarke – Cradle

John Woolf – The Wonders, lifting the curtain on the freak show, circus and the Victorian age

Dan Jones – Hollow Crown

Graham Swift – Waterland

Nyuyen Phan Que Mai – The Mountains Sing

Cixin Liu – The Three Body Problem

Andri Snaer Magnason - Lovestar

Tove Jansson – The True Deceiver

Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

Victor Hugo – Les Miserables

Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis

Nora Krug - Heimat

A slightly shorter episode than usual, that's because we needed to get into a cool shady spot and read! In this episode Gwyn, Holly and Paul recommend books from their to be read pile for you to take on your Summer holidays. Be it your backyard or a beach far far away there may be a book just for you.

We give a shout out to an excellent podcast The Rest is History and you can listen to it here https://open.spotify.com/show/7Cvsbcjhtur7nplC148TWy

Here is the link to the Bloody Scotland website https://bloodyscotland.com/ 

Here are some of the books we discussed:

Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

Bora Chung - Cursed Bunny

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

D. L. Marshall - Anthrax Island

Yukio Mishima - Star

Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

Natalia Ginzburg - All Our Yesterdays

Lucinda Riley - Seven Sisters

T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land

Zoe Gilbert - Mischief Acts

S. G. Maclean - The Seeker

Amy Liptrot - The Instant

Tom Holland - Persian Fire