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This episode sees Nicki Pau Preto join us to talk all about her new novel Bonesmith. Follow Wren on a mission to rescue the -male- damsel in distress, with pitfalls, challenges and flirtation along the way! Lauren loved the world building and the magic system so much, she couldn't stop gushing. Charlotte is convinced she knows the plot twist of the next book, Nicki quite rightly is keeping shtum!

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Royal wedding? Check. Problematic women? Check. Super sexy love interest? Check. Megan Barnard's Jezebel ticks all our historical fiction boxes. Does Jezebel deserve her reputation as a slut, whore or witch? Megan discusses with us whether Jezebel was an ambitious victim of her time, or deluded in thinking everyone wants what she had. 

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This is going to be one hell of a podcast!
Imagine a world where Persephone wasn't kidnapped... she jumped. Then imagine it's combined with a softboy Hades, kind of enemies to friends to lovers with marriage of convenience packaged in the most Barbie pink cover. Thanks to Bea they don't have to imagine. Getting into the real mythological inspirations behind your new favourite Hades and Persephone retelling..... getting into why this Hades feeds into Lauren's death character kink and the fastest Shag Marry Kill we've ever played.

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Join us today as we welcome back Katharine and Elizabeth Corr. Picking up where we left off from Daughter of Darkness, we head on a second adventure with Deina in the sequel, Queen of Gods. 

We discuss hiding things in plain sight, feeling excluded from your friend group and who we think should be a love interest or not. For lovers of Greek Myths and for those just starting out on their journey, this book is a must read for you!

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Better call Helen with the good hair. Join us for part two of our Helen trilogy. Following off from where we left her in our International Women's Day special, we discuss if Helen got to choose her husband, the oath of Tyndareus, Her appearance in Sappho and her marriage after Paris. 

No Emily Wilson translations were harmed during the making of this podcast. 

Discussions of paintings by;
Rossetti
Frederick Sandys-Walker
Edward Burne-Jones
Evelyn de Morgan

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Lauren and Charlotte LOVE how good YA Thrillers are now. They also love an escape room so who better to talk to about their new book than Kathryn Foxfield? 
Saffron overshares with the AI at her work placement at a new high tech escape room facility which encourages the AI to set up the ultimate test. Which stereotype in her online gaming group would survive a real life Battle Royale? Talking to Kathryn about all the horror tropes Lauren loves and Charlotte is afraid of they find out who really is 'Getting Away With Murder'

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In this episode we fully judge books by their covers, with cover artist Tom Roberts joining us. To name a few books Tom has drawn for; Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, The Immortal Games by Annaliese Avery, Lore by Alex Bracken and The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence. Tom was charming, discussing his route into his career and let us take him off on conversational tangents, which makes for an amusing listen. 

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What do you get if you take a lost princess story... and make it Sapphic?

Lauren and Charlotte celebrate Pride with Brenna Nation asking all the questions about her Sapphic fantasy "The Shattered Lands". Find out all about Brenna's Taylor Swift influences which the girls are so down with! Where the elemental magic system came from and learn what had Lauren in a literal puddle over this book. And mainly fall in love with a flawed anxious heroine who still gives all the badass energy we want from our female lead!

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When Luna McNamara gushed over the help she got from Dr. Regine May, we HAD to contact her and invite her on to talk to us.

The conversation mainly centres around Cupid and Psyche, but also magic gemstones, love spells and what benefit we would get from learning Latin in 2023. For fans of Apuleius and his influences, this one is an episode not to be missed!

Twitter: @Reginemay

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Joining Charlotte in today's episode is Dr. Aven McMaster. In a conversation that could have carried on for HOURS, they talk about sexual and gender politics in Rome. From Ovid to Catullus. Aven tells the story of the woman she believes everyone should know about and mentions a few sources by the end, for anyone who enjoys a rabbit hole;

Suetonius "Lives of the Caesars", Cicero "Philippics", Catullus, and Juvenal "Satires".

"Exploring Gender Diversity" edited by Allison Surtees and Jennifer Dyer, from Edinburgh University Press, and "Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Culture" by Tom Sapsford, from Oxford University Press.

"The Scholars" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=13330

"Pandora", by Susan McMaster (http://web.ncf.ca/smcmaster/), originally from "Dark Galaxies", Ouroboros Press 1986, and also in "Paper Affair: Poems Selected and New" published in 2010 by Black Moss Books https://a.co/d/eIjYU5R

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Website: www.alliterative.net 

Twitter: @AvenSarah