The Brum Radio Book Show looks forward with optimism - we review our book of the month, Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger, and our debut of the month, Kismet by Luke Tredget. Our blogspot this month is from Leila of the Post Apocalyptic Book Club, who talks about the enduring appeal of the end of the world, and some books she loves that deal in the end times. Plus all the usual chat in the studio from novelists Mike Gayle and Catherine O'Flynn, bookseller Stuart Bartholomew and reader Blake Woodham.