Join Amanda and Joseph for another deep dive, this time into Heart the Lover, Lily King’s tale of first loves and lost opportunities. Plus, as always, they talk about their recent reads and discuss the titles they’re keen to pick up next. 

(1:23) Book News

(1:23) The Booker Prize 2025

(1:34) Flesh by David Szalay

(2:09) The Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

(2:12) How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner 

(2:45) The Goldsmith’s Prize

(3:26) We Live Here Now by CD Rose

(4:11) What We’re Reading Next 

(4:16) Big Kiss, Bye Bye by Claire Louise Bennett

(7:46) Checkout 19 by Claire Lousie Bennett

(8:28) Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley

(14:26)  Deep Dive into Heart the Lover 

(15:44) The Pleasing Hour

(15:49) The English Teacher

(15:53) Father of the Rain

(15:57) Euphoria 

(16:30) Writers & Lovers 

(18:04) Heart The Lover synopsis

(25:17) Book Reporter Talks to: Lily King, Heart the Lover

(29:07) The Aeneid by Virgil 

(29:12) “Some day we will remember even these our hardships” (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)

(31:34) Ulysses by James Joyce

(31:41) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

(32:14) Literary references in Heart The Lover

(32:47) ‘The Dead’ by James Joyce

(1:06:41) We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

(1:07:21) What we’re reading next

(1:07:45) Independent People by Halldor Laxness

(1:08:05) Ambrose Through The Tall Grass by Nathan Korn

(1:09:01) The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez

(1:09:43) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

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